Soybean yield losses mount as growers wait for better nematode control. The amount of money farmers hemorrhage to this microscopic root parasite each year is staggering.
Soybean cyst nematode is the most economically damaging pathogen for soybeans in North America, causing more than $1.5 billion in damage annually. Combatting the pest begins with a soil test.
Gaesser Farms near Corning, Iowa, harvests and sells cereal rye to farmers for seed and to an area distillery to help make planting cover crops profitable.
The California Farm Bureau says a new farm worker law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday will force the state's farmers and ranchers to choose to give up free speech and private property rights in a trade over union elections.
One week after U.S. prosecutors asked a federal court to expedite the crop insurance and farm benefit payments fraud case against a Michigan farmer, both sides reached a settlement.
