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Farmers Edge and Planet are part of a wave of emerging high-tech firms helping farmers fight a historic foe – bad weather – that’s getting increasingly wilder and more capricious, Bloomberg reports. At the same time, seed sellers Bayer,...

For six generations, Ben Riensche’s family has tended corn and soybeans outside Jesup, a town of 2,500 on the windswept plains of eastern Iowa, writes Andrew Marc Noel on Bloomberg.com. But today he’s harvesting a valuable new crop from...

U.S. corn farmers are proving themselves to be quick learners, writes Mario Parker on Bloomberg.com. Growers producing the grain on big plots -- those bigger than 2,900 acres -- are using precision-agriculture methods at twice the rate of the nation’s...