During a Strategic Farming webinar hosted by the University of Minnesota Extension on March 25, Jeff Coulter, University of Minnesota Extension corn agronomist, offered numerous considerations for the ...

Growing corn in a small backyard plot is totally doable if you plan carefully and give the plants what they need to thrive. Corn loves full sun, fertile soil and regular watering, but is also ...

With the 2025 planting season underway, the first USDA planting progress report of the season shows the numbers closely mirror farmers’ 2024 planting starts, according to the report issued today at 4 ...

As farmers finish planting their 2025 corn and pull planters out of the final field, David Hula encourages them to get right back out there and start assessing the crop and making plans on how to ...

Q: How does companion planting work? A: Companion planting has been around for a long time, so most of the early evidence was anecdotal in nature. Eventually, companion planting was scientifically ...

Producers declared their intentions of planting 5% more corn than in the previous year in the year’s first survey-based acreage report. Surveyed growers said they planned to plant 95.3 million acres ...

According to data from Bigger Garden, 55% of American households do some kind of gardening. A large portion of this green-thumbed population includes people with access to front and back yards, but if ...

Michael Kotutwa spent the summers of his boyhood planting corn alongside his grandfather. In the sandy soils of the Colorado Plateau, they buried seeds deep into the soil, awaiting rain. Planting ...