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Yields look promising as baling is starting on the first crop of hay across Central and East Texas. (Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife)
Crops, Farmland, Forage Crops, Hay Range Pasture, Land, Ranchland, Southern Region, Texas

Hay, forage conditions improve with rainfall

Hay and forage conditions improved across Texas with recent rainfall, setting the stage for promising hay yields. Read More

Ag News, Blogs, Editors, Kylene, Kylene Scott, Opinion, Weather

Rain and old wives’ tales 

Yellow or stripe rust, Puccinia striiformis var striiformis, a severe infection on a wheat crop. (iStock │ #1927104960 - Tomasz Klejdysz)
Ag News, Crops, Disease, Wheat

Low risk of stripe rust problems in Kansas



Pivot irrigator from Pexel, credit Refik Ekenal.

Center pivot irrigation insurance premiums rising 

Mother Nature strutted her stuff in March

Hay bales (Photo: Sydney Peterson, West Des Moines, Iowa)

March 24 to 28 is Severe Weather Awareness Week in Iowa

A bull takes in the western Nebraska snowy landscape. (Photo by Hannah Smith.)

Winter’s bite certainly felt in February

Researchers from Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma prepare to install new soil water content sensors at an Oklahoma Mesonet site as part of the Oklahoma Hydronet initiative. The Hydronet system will also measure water stored in soil, aquifers and reservoirs. (Photo by OSU Agriculture.)

Marshall: Bipartisan bill on weather data could help ag producers

The magic of snow

Dave Bergmeier

Winter’s bite remains a staple of High Plains life

Windmill at sunset (Journal photo by Lacey Newlin.)

Lack of snow story of the Plains