Day 3 Crop Tour Results: Heat & Stress Take a Toll on Corn in Iowa & Illinois

Worn components on combines and grain carts reduce groundspeeds, increase grain loss and encourage engines to gulp extra fuel. While these wear points might not halt harvest, they will slow it down.

Conditions are right for the disease to break loose in parts of the Midwest. If it does, agronomists recommend farmers take these three steps to prioritize affected cornfields for harvest to minimize yield loss.

Solinftec has been partnering with retailers in the Corn Belt to deploy 20 Solix robots this year. Next year, three retailers will expand their fleets to use the technology across more acres.

A standalone tax bill is unlikely this year, but major tax provisions might be attached to an omnibus spending bill that will likely occur before year-end. Here are several provisions that either Republicans or Democrats want to see happen.