CHICAGO, Illinois – Infestations of soybean aphids, sucking sap from this year’s already dry crops, threaten to shrink the size of U.S. soybean crop yields, according to agriculture experts. Populations of the tiny aphids, which latch onto soybean plants and suck sap from the plants’ vascular systems, exploded in the U.S. Midwest after cool weather […] Read more
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Tour expects average yields for U.S. plains
FARGO, N.D. – Spring wheat yield potential in the United States Northern Plains is average with durum expected slightly above average, according to estimates of a wheat crop tour released Aug. 2. More than 50 participants, including university agronomists, producers, and grain and milling industry officials, examined 402 fields across North Dakota, northern South Dakota […] Read more
