Planting new varieties and higher populations means more ears in the field. But if your combine header isn’t prepped to handle the additional stalks, which are often thicker and tougher, those extra ...

Iowa State University researchers are developing front and rear attachments that allow a conventional combine to harvest corn stover (the stalks, cobs and leaves) as well as grain. The stover could be ...

AMES, Iowa -- A John Deere 9750 STS combine slowly made its way through an Iowa State University research field, all the while dumping a crop of corn kernels into the combine's hopper and blowing a ...

Let’s trash talk—crop residue. The way you manage residue right now at harvest will affect your crop next year. In all tillage systems the key is decomposing the remainder of this year’s crop and ...