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American farmers are rapidly ploughing ahead with adopting artificial intelligence. The technology is as sophisticated as it is...

The new Nebraska Corn Checkoff presidential chairman has the propensity for researching corn in his DNA.

Researchers to examine data on 4,500 feeder pigs who went through a disease challenge including growth rates and daily feed and water intake.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets, but these crops are unfamiliar to many Iowa farmers.Expect that to change soon say plant-breeding father and son team Patrick and James Schnable, co-founders of the Ames-based company Dryland Genetics.

The Midwest is known for its rows and rows of corn and soybeans that uniformly cover the landscape.But in central Missouri, farmer Linus Rothermich disrupts the usual corn and soybean rotation with Japanese millet. He has been growing it since 1993.“Golly, I have to think how far back that is,” he said. “I was a young man and I was looking for alternative crops to grow to make more money. We just weren’t making a lot of money in agriculture then. Compared to his corn and soybean crops, he spends a lot less on Japanese millet. Because its growing season is shorter, it fits perfectly in...