Inputs
Corn and Soybean Producers and Dairies Benefit From Manure as Fertilizer | Getting a Good Start
Dec 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Ron Heiniger North Carolina State University
Do starter fertilizers and additives boost corn yields? Recent research has shown that by combining a starter fertilizer with management practices that... More
Strengthening Relationships with Input Suppliers is a Positive for Farmers | Team Up With Your Supplier
Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Moe Russell
For some time, I have been writing and speaking about the need for producers to look at developing long-term relationships with suppliers. This is because... More
Organics Keep Growing
Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM | Compiled By Greg Lamp
Organic foods now occupy prominent shelf space in the produce and dairy aisles of most mainstream U.S. food retailers, while offerings of organic meats,... More
Quilt Xcel Fungicide Receives Section 3 Registration
May 28, 2009 2:19 PM | Source: Syngenta
Syngenta Crop Protection announced today that Quilt Xcel fungicide received a Section 3 registration from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA... More
Data Shows Soybean Farmers See Improved Yield from Domark Fungicide
May 28, 2009 1:35 PM | Source: Valent
Soybean farmers who used Domark® Fungicide in 2008 showed as much as a 7.5 bushel per acre increase over farmers who did not treat their crop with a fungicide, according to data compiled from across the United States.... More
Inputs News
Should Hail Damaged Crops be Sprayed With a Fungicide?
Jul 21, 2009 2:49 PM
Last week severe storms hit several counties in Iowa with hail ranging from softball to pea size causing significant crop damage. Hail damage to corn may negatively affect yield potential (see Elmore and Abendroth, 2009) but may have little effect on soybean yield potential (see Pedersen, 2008)... More
Herbicide Diversity Needed To Keep Roundup Effective
Jul 14, 2009 12:02 PM
Using a diverse herbicide application strategy may increase production costs, but a five-year Purdue University study shows the practice will drastically reduce weeds and seeds that are resistant to a popular herbicide... More
Fertilizer Inputs
Wet Spring, Corn Residue Affect Spring Nutrient Management
Feb 8, 2010 2:22 PM
The agriculturally troubled fall of 2009 may be over, but here comes the sequel: a potentially wet spring. Due to the late corn harvest, many fields have yet to be tilled, and they have large amounts of residue remaining on the surface... More
A Winter Urea Story (With Apologies to Charles Dickens)
Dec 10, 2009 8:47 AM
It had been 10 long years since Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge's fertilizer plant partner, had died. Ebenezer had bought out Marley's share of the business from Jacob's relatives and had run the plant ever since. It was Dec. 1 and the weather in his part of North Dakota had dropped below zero every night for a week... More
Fungicides
Should Hail Damaged Crops be Sprayed With a Fungicide?
Jul 21, 2009 2:49 PM | By Alison Robertson and Daren Mueller, Department of Plant Pathology
Last week severe storms hit several counties in Iowa with hail ranging from softball to pea size causing significant crop damage. Hail damage to corn may negatively affect yield potential (see Elmore and Abendroth, 2009) but may have little effect on soybean yield potential (see Pedersen, 2008)... More
Quilt Xcel Fungicide Receives Section 3 Registration
May 28, 2009 2:19 PM | Source: Syngenta
Syngenta Crop Protection announced today that Quilt Xcel fungicide received a Section 3 registration from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA... More
Herbicides
Adding Pre-Emergence Residual Herbicide to Glyphosate Program Has Advantages For Corn and Soybeans
Dec 1, 2009 12:00 PM | BY LIZ MORRISON
Should you put your weed control program on residual power? Adding a pre-emergence residual herbicide to your glyphosate program has a lot of advantages,... More
Exiling Atrazine? | Atrazine Still a Highly Effective Herbicide to Control Weeds in Corn
Dec 1, 2009 12:00 PM | BY LARRY STALCUP
An old friend is still available to help control weeds. But despite the government's report that atrazine isn't contaminating municipal water systems... More
Insecticides
Battling Beetles
Nov 30, 2008 12:00 PM | By Larry Stalcup
Bean leaf beetles are giving southern soybean growers more and more fits. Traditional insecticide treatments are failing, and there's added cost to beat... More
Seed Inputs
Monsanto Disputes AP Story
Dec 15, 2009 2:57 PM
An Associated Press article accuses Monsanto of “squeezing” its competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and dominating the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered seeds through its business practices... More
Corn and Soybean Seeds are Being Stored Worldwide in Gene Banks and Seed Vaults
Dec 1, 2009 12:00 PM
Safety is preached heavily, especially in agriculture. But what do we know about the safety of our seeds? There are specific banks around the world that... More
Seed treatments
Soybean Seed: To Treat or Not to Treat
Apr 22, 2009 10:26 AM | By Laura Sweets, University of Missouri
The 2009 season is shaping up to be an interesting and challenging season. Right now there are still questions on whether or not to treat soybean seed with seed treatment fungicides... More
Soybean Seed Inoculation Pays
Apr 30, 2008 9:16 AM | Source: Michigan State University
Research conducted at Michigan State University (MSU) and Ohio State University (OSU) and in Ontario has demonstrated that treating soybean seed with bacterial inoculants is a profitable practice... More
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Valmont Sponsors Accredited Online Chemigation And Fertigation Course
Apr 16, 2009 10:38 AM
Penton Media has developed an online continuing education unit (CEU) course that covers the use of mechanical irrigation systems to apply fertilizers and crop protection products. The course, sponsored by Valmont Irrigation... More
Resounding Resistance
Apr 1, 2009 12:00 PM
It's kind of sickening. Jarrett Nehring frowns when making that response. Who wouldn't, when a 25-bu. drop in soybean yields flashes on the yield monitor... More
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