This year’s erratic monsoon, accompanied by soaring temperatures, mirrors the 18% national rainfall deficit recorded in 2024, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Ohio—Fifty years ago, the Weaver Field Seed Company, started by Orlie Weaver on the Wood-Henry County Line Road ...

Many things have been happening at and around our field stations as we transition from spring to summer. One of those things ...

Discover how nanopriming enhances crop stress resistance by boosting seed germination, drought tolerance, and nutrient ...

Haveri: Over 200 soybean farmers across several villages in Haveri district are staring at an agrarian crisis after seeds ...

Step 1 - Choice and initial characterization of the quality of the soybean seed lots and homogeneity test. In the first step, called initial procedures, seeds from two soybean cultivars were used, one ...

Other states that exceeded the five-year soybean planting progress on April 28 included Illinois at 22% planted, Missouri at 25%, Nebraska at 13%, Ohio at 10%, and South Dakota at 6%.

A soybean researcher is urging farmers to take another look at the fine print on the seed tags before planting. Shawn Conley with the Wisconsin Soybean Program says last year’s dry harvest conditions ...

Editor’s note: The following was written by Giovani Preza Fontes and Emerson Nafziger with the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois for the farmdoc daily website April ...

Seed costs for corn and soybeans have risen considerably in recent years, along with genetic yield potential and improved ability of planted seeds to emerge and establish productive plants. This ...

Seed germination occurs in two stages. The first is imbibition, during which the seed rapidly takes up water. Soybean must absorb 50% of its seed weight in this stage, ...

By Dr. Laura Lindsey, OSU Extension Soybean Specialist, Adapted from C.O.R.N. 2025-07 By law, seed sold in Ohio must include the percentage of germination on the seed tag along with the date tested ...