RESEARCH-There was just enough dry weather the last week of October for combines to start rolling again in eastern Kansas. Here a two-row combine harvests Pioneer test plots north of Lawrence, Kan. Soybean seed from these tests plots will be evaluated and the top selections will be grown again in tests plots across the U.S next year. (Journal photo by Doug Rich.)
When Dr. Norman Borlaug, father of the 'green revolution' passed away in September, leaders from around the globe memorialized the Nobel Peace Prize winner
"Our tools to control the estrus cycle have never been as great as they are today," David Patterson, University of Missouri beef reproduction specialist,