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 [...]
Look up “Boron deficiency” online right now. Depending on the source, it is either the #1 or #2 most deficient nutrient in crop production IN THE WORLD!!! The odds that your soils – and ultimately, your crops – need more boron [...]
Will you use Harness, Surpass, Outlook, Dual, or Zidua on your farm? How about SureStart, TripleFLEX, Acuron, Resicore, Anthem Maxx, or Harness Max? Maybe you’ll be spraying Warrant, Warrant Ultra, Halex GT, or Armezon Pro. The one common denominator with all these herbicides? They [...]
A year ago this month in this magazine, I told you corn rootworm pressure was on the rise due to more conventional corn and less insecticide use. In many areas, 2021 turned out to be the worst year we’ve seen in a long [...]
THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE GREAT THIS COMING YEAR TO MAKE SOME MONEY RAISING WHEAT! One of the factors you should be really happy about is there are many newer weed control options that could save you money and do even better at controlling [...]
With Roundup and Liberty almost triple the price from 14 months ago, we suggest looking at alternative herbicides. Roundup and Liberty probably still have a place on your farm, but if you can find other products that will give you as good or better [...]
When you order seed, there often are a lot of assumptions being made. You are counting on the seed to have a high germination percentage and a seed treatment that will protect you from most of the common insects and diseases. However, the seed [...]
I’ve been a farmer my whole life. One thing that got beaten into my thought process from a young age was to not fall into the trap of just looking back at the previous crop season and making all my decisions based on what [...]
More and more frequently these days, building a farm operation doesn’t necessarily mean picking up more acres. It means doing better with the acres you’ve got. For Tyler Boeckmann and his family’s farm just outside of Waverly in northeastern Iowa, [...]