Inman, Kansas, combine demonstration on June 29 featuring vintage machines as part of a celebration marking 150 years of Turkey Red winter wheat. (Photo courtesy of Glen Ediger.)

Turkey Red revolutionized wheat industry

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Western High Plains feeling drought’s impact

A farmer pours soybean seed into his planter prior to no-till planting into cereal rye. (Photo courtesy of Jason Johnson/Iowa NRCS)

Cover crop fact sheets explain options available to Iowa farmers

Alfalfa

Foraging for good value, but alfalfa losing ground doing so

(USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.)

USDA-APHIS issues CVB notice 

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Hotter days ahead for most of the High Plains

Sunflowers (Photo courtesy of Amberlyn Brown.)

Old crop sunflowers had a price rally

Close up of hands of a woman farmer. Farmer is holding a laptop on wheat field. Smart farming and digital agriculture. (Photo: iStock - Scharfsinn86)

5 ways to get on board with farm data