North-central Iowa farmer Doug Adams caught a lot of people’s attention recently when he grew wheat in his field near ...
The Agriculture Department will allow double cropping to be insured in hundreds of additional counties this winter in an effort to address shortages of wheat and other commodities caused by the war in ...
The Biden administration, in a bid to expand U.S. wheat acres to offset Ukraine’s export losses, wants to make more farmers eligible for insurance when they grow wheat and soybeans in the same crop ...
DES MOINES, Iowa -- There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia's invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in ...
Planting soybeans into standing wheat can not only result in higher soybean yields, but offer a significant financial boost to growers compared to planting a traditional double crop of soybeans, ...
URBANA, Ill. - Much attention has been given to dedicated, perennial bioenergy crops to meet the revised Renewable Fuel Standard mandating production of 36 billion gallons of biofuel by the year 2022.
From 1980 to 2016, grain production in Brazil increased more than fourfold, and the country now stands as the world’s largest soybean exporter and the second largest exporter of corn. The two main ...
The USDA has made changes to allow farmers to plant and harvest two crops on the same piece of land. Essentially, allowing for two-cash crops, KCRG reports.“I’ll plant a rye in the fall, and soybeans ...
From 1980 to 2016, grain production in Brazil increased more than fourfold, and the country now stands as the world’s largest soybean exporter and the second largest exporter of corn. The two main ...
A new study quantifies for the first time the impact that double-cropping had on helping Brazil achieve its national grain boom. From 1980 to 2016, grain production in Brazil increased more than ...