The crop management field school is designed to give crop advisers and farmers information that can be used immediately.

The program compares prevented-planting with growing either the same crop for which a prevented-planting payment could be received or some other crop.

Producers could be dealing with late-maturing, high-moisture corn this fall.

Samantha Pernsteiner has been selected by her peers as the 95th Little International queen.

Land values showed about an 8 percent increase from the previous survey, compared with a 42 percent increase during 2012.