TOPEKA (KSNT) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) projects a record 16.7 billion bushel corn crop this year, threatening to lower already record-low corn prices. Kansas farmers produce $3 ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - For corn famers, 2025 is shaping up to be a record year for the crop. It comes after the USDA surpassed trade expectations with the country’s average corn yield at a record high ...

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (KSNW) — Across Kansas and its surrounding states, corn is doing much better than expected. Fields planted in Spring are producing more bushels per acre, and more acres were planted ...

Trends like this one were caused by several factors, including slightly higher profitability expectations for beans than corn ...

Farmer Kent Moore, who grows mostly corn in the northwestern part of Pratt County, is looking forward to 2026. Especially if he happens to get rain at the right times like he did last year. “On our ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Officials are monitoring the spread of a disease that is hurting corn production in Kansas. Tar spot appears as small, dark, raised spots on infected corn and can appear on the leaves, ...

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (KWCH) - Corn harvest is in full swing in Kansas, and farmers are saying it will be a record crop thanks to heavy rain during the summer. “We should be in good shape,” said Doug ...

The 2025 corn crop is shaping up to be one of the best Glen Grimm and his family have grown in recent memory. “We’re looking at a tremendous crop,” says Grimm, who farms with three of his brothers in ...

For some Kansas corn growers like Matt Splitter yields are shaping up to be well above average this harvest, and maybe even a record – a welcomed change from the past two years, which were plagued by ...

A Kansas farmer who lied to the government about crops that he sold being destroyed by weather has pleaded guilty to bank fraud and making false statements, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District ...