If you’ve had Iron Deficiency Chlorosis (IDC) in the past few years, wouldn’t it be nice if you could find a way to permanently end your risk for having this issue on your farm? There is. If your soil pH drops below 7 and [...]
If you haven’t been using soybean seed treatment, please consider the following. The number one thing I hear from farmers who tell me they aren’t using seed treatment is, “I’ve tried it before, and I didn’t get much out of it.” Most [...]
Resistant weeds are becoming more of a problem every year. While there are many things you can do to add yield to your soybean crop, few things are more important than having fantastic weed control. Here’s our best suggestion if you have a weedy [...]
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 [...]