Agronomy
Here is a guide to the products available in the corn and soybean markets.
Post-emergent herbicide supplies can be hard to find this year. To overcome this challenge, make a plan and consider a new approach to weed management.
An adjuvant based on wood waste reduces herbicide drift.
From tech analyst Shane Thomas, “The consistent topic I have brought up when writing about Farmers Edge has been around execution.”
Concern about water quality has spurred nutrient reduction incentive programs and, in some cases, regulations. If you haven’t been affected by one, you probably soon will be.
Preview 2.1 SC herbicide from UPL targets tough broadleaf weeds and will be available for use on about half a million soybean acres this season.
If you’re thinking about cutting starter fertilizer this year because of surging costs, Ken Ferrie has three words of advice: Don’t do it.
Here are a few considerations for your 2022 weed controls strategy.
Play the long game; draw up a plan that pays.
Understanding your nutrient goals will keep you inside the Sustainable Triangle.
Machinery drives input efficiency
As we prepare to put 2021 to bed, several of our editors reminisced about the past year and identified the stories, pieces and clips they enjoyed producing the most.
There’s plenty of disease inoculum in cornfields across the Midwest. It’s just a matter of whether Mother Nature will unleash the devastation this season that many farmers saw in 2021.
If you normally use starter fertilizer, keep using it, advises Ken Ferrie. “Five gallons of 10-34-O will give you a bigger kick than 300 pounds of broadcast DAP, due to placement and timing,” he says.
These charter members bring a range of expertise and the drive to share the financial and ecological benefits of carbon programs.
Evaluate cropping choices on physical, natural and human factors.
Understanding the where and how of herbicide active ingredients can help you address weeds and manage your budget more effectively.
What really makes yield per acre? It’s not plant population — that’s merely one component, as we were reminded of in 2021.
As you evaluate input options for next spring, here are five steps to size up whether a biological might be a good fit for your farm.
This population of waterhemp is currently resistant to six herbicide groups and is now “activating detoxification genes before the herbicides can do harm,” says one researcher.
Open slots and false bottoms are being created as farmers build strips for their spring planting pass.
Major investments are bringing more products to the field.
Every hybrid has its own way of responding to environmental conditions
Using the right seeding rate for planting conditions can help you boost yields and profits.
Via this partnership, farmers are eligible for two payments. Bayer will pay its $3, $6, $9/acre incentives. CHS will offer financial incentives for its enhanced efficiency fertilizers: N-Edge, Trivar and Levesol.
Every management change ripples through the human, natural and physical environments.
By sharing his agronomic practices with fellow farmers, Swartz helps them identify practical, cost-effective ways they can enhance conservation stewardship on their respective operations.
Creating an ideal seed bed and soil conditions can help offset the uncertainty and unpredictability of climate and weather.
Scientists advance corn genome sequencing at a frenzied pace as now 26 different lines have been mapped.
Too much rain fueled disease pressure, double fungicide applications actually paid for themselves in some situations, and hybrid diversification was and is critical to your overall yield success.