If you’ve recently done any driving through the rural parts of our area, you’ve probably seen tractors pulling planters down beautiful rows of prepared soil. That’s because it’s corn planting time.

A small percentage of corn and soybean planting remains after a busy week in the fields. The U.S.D.A. report shows that 98% of the corn crop is in the ground. That’s three days ahead of the five-year ...

ST. LOUIS -- U.S. farmers, who could only watch helplessly this spring as storm after storm left their fields a muddy mess, took to their tractors en masse last week and planted a record amount of ...