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WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an occasional water tower. The skyscraper-like corn is a part of rural America as much as cavernous red barns and placid cows. […]

  Corteva Agriscience has announced two new seed treatment packages for corn and canola farmers for next year. Producers will receive improved disease control with a canola fungicide package with four modes of disease protection, including a new active ingredient for airborne blackleg protection. Blackleg can cause average yield losses of almost 10 percent. For […]

Stats Canada says a July farm survey found farmers are expected to produce less wheat, canola, corn and soybeans this year, but more barley and oats. The latest spring wheat production estimate is up this year, but durum and winter are down. The estimate currently stands at 2.9 percent from last year at 31.3 million […]