Last summer, I had an agronomist in the Dakotas tell me some of the farmers in his area were spending more than $100 per acre on herbicides and still not controlling waterhemp!!If you have kochia or waterhemp on your farm, here is how you stop those [...]
My favorite question so far this winter is, “Can I get by with 0.7 pounds of nitrogen per bushel in corn?” If you are trying to manage nitrogen by simply looking at a blanket statement of “pounds per bushel,” you will either [...]
Over the past 30 years, soybean farmers in the U.S. and Canada have lost an estimated 35 MILLION BUSHELS ANNUALLY DUE TO PHYTOPHTHORA ROOT AND STEM ROT. Besides soybeans, PHYTOPHTHORA affects many other crops, including fruits, vegetables, and tree crops. Mountains [...]
SHOULD YOU BE PLANTING YOUR SOYBEANS EARLIER? SHOULD THEY BE THE FIRST CROP YOU PLANT THIS SEASON? This is a fun discussion to have with other farmers as, let’s face it, from time to time we all get stuck in the mindset of, [...]
Family farms come in many forms. Typically, land and capital pass from one generation to the next, and discussions of how to pass the torch are an inevitability. Ideally, this is a gradual process, with elders remaining involved in decision-making and sharing the workload while [...]
IN THE 2 YEARS SINCE 40 SERIES CORN WAS RELEASED,WE HAVE HAD ZERO COLD-SOIL REPLANT ISSUES!! IN THE 2 YEARS SINCE 40 SERIES CORN WAS RELEASED,WE HAVE HAD ZERO COLD-SOIL REPLANT ISSUES!! IN THE 2 YEARS SINCE 40 SERIES CORN WAS RELEASED,WE HAVE HAD [...]