Near-record expenses and near-record commodity prices have created an environment where new companies are popping up everywhere selling various biological products, bombarding farmers with advertisements that make all sorts of claims. How do you know what to believe? Now more than ever in this [...]
Have you heard from a fertilizer dealer or another ag advisor that micronutrients don’t matter? What do you believe? A majority of the soil samples we see today still don’t have all the important micronutrients on the tests. If you’re not measuring micros, how [...]
We hired a seed person in the last year who quit his previous job in part because of an experience he went through last spring. A farmer called him up to come out and look at two hybrids he had bought from this person’s [...]
As you load seed into your planting equipment, the thought has to go through your mind, “Is this the best variety for my soil and for this growing season?” I get a chance to make that decision for each of my fields, and there [...]
It all started with one man and one cow. That man was Robert Terwilliger Sr., the founder of Terwilliger & Sons. Although the operation had fairly humble origins back in the early 1940s, four generations of Terwilligers have transformed it into a 2200-acre farm [...]
There is no such thing as a Nitrogen Credit for soybeans. If you aren’t taking into account organic matter mineralization and free nitrogen release when you are planning on nitrogen applications, you are likely overspending on N. Roughly between V9 and V14 in [...]
There are quite a few decisions to make with each crop you raise. One that takes more time to make, in my experience, is planting population. With all the data you have on your farm from yields to fertility levels and more, dropping the [...]
Ever since he was a boy growing up on his family’s farm near Souris, North Dakota, Jeff Skarphol knew that it was the life for him. “That’s where I liked being – driving tractor and four-wheeler, checking the crops,” Jeff said. But [...]
Wheat farmers have asked us for years – “Why aren’t corn farmers using more foliar fungicides?” It’s puzzling to them because foliar fungicides have shown increases in plant health and yield in wheat for so long, they’ve become “no-brainer” applications. The only question in [...]
Enlist One and Enlist Duo (Enlist One plus glyphosate) just got approved for use in the United States through at least 2028. While this is great news, there are a couple of label changes that I personally don’t like. ⊲ Enlist [...]