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New, methionine-rich corn developed. (Peggy Greb, D1915-1.)
Corn, Crops

Scientists ratchet up key amino acid in corn

Experimental lines of field corn developed by a team of Agricultural Research Service and university scientists will usher in new commercial hybrids offering high-methionine grain. The advance, reported in a recent issue of Crop Science, will be especially welcome news for or... Read More

Harvesting a sorghum field for yield trials conducted each year by Iowa State to evaluate biomass yield for hundreds of new hybrids. (Photo courtesy of Maria Salas-Fernandez)
Crops, Grain Sorghum

Exploring new sorghum cultivars’ potential as a forage crop

K-State Research and Extension will host farm financial management skills training sessions for women in 31 locations across the state early in 2020. (Courtesy photo.)
Ag News

Effects of government shutdown would ripple through agriculture to consumers



Oklahoma State University is one of several southern land-grant universities improving turfgrass conditions to keep athletes safer this football season. (Photo by Todd Johnson, OSU Agriculture.)

Southern land-grant universities making turf fields safe

Wheat harvest (K-State Research and Extension)

Latest WASDE pegs some lower corn, soybean yields

Wheat. (Photo by Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife.)

Russian wheat exports remain biggest risk to US wheat elevators

Sunflower (Courtesy photo.)

Sunflower markets

(Photo by Todd Johnson, OSU Agriculture.)

High Plains cattle sales report 

Hay Markets

State-by-state hay summary

Ray Frisbie, Ph.D., helped write the initial boll weevil eradication plan for Texas. (Photo by Michael Miller, Texas A&M AgriLife.)

Boll weevil eradication most successful pest insect elimination program

(Photo courtesy of Kansas State University Research and Extension.)

Project will form network that aims to deliver sorghum seed trait technology for farmers