In the fields of Brooks County in southern Georgia, firmly wedged in the belly of the Deep South, full-season soybeans are typically 2’-3' high after desiccation. Randy Dowdy’s stand was a ...

As Randy Dowdy walked along muddy turnrows under pounding January rains, he knew part of the topsoil from the farm that birthed the highest soybean yields in world history was gone. Staring across ...