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Farmers Planting More Soy as Corn Ends Run as Profit King

January 6, 2015 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Source: Jeff Wilson, Bloomberg

U.S. farmers from Louisiana to North Dakota are preparing to switch more land to soybeans as they seek to limit losses from a slumping corn market

7 Steps for Post-Harvest Yield Monitor Maintenance

December 12, 2014 | Posted in Equipment, Precision Agriculture

The end of harvest marks a good time to implement good management practices for yield monitors including taking steps to winterize components. Yield monitors continue to increase and in most cases are standard options on today's combines with the yield-mapping data being important information for precision agriculture services offered across the agriculture industry.

Destroying Weed Seeds At Harvest

November 7, 2014 | Posted in Crop Protection

Experts with the Weed Science Society of America say one often-ignored strategy for controlling herbicide-resistant weeds is now getting a second look. Farmers are finding success by ensuring that weed seeds remaining in the field at harvest time arenâ€™t dispersed and left to sprout in subsequent growing seasons.

Soybean, Corn Seed Germination Before Harvest

October 20, 2014 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

The two primary requirements for soybean seed germination are temperatures above 50 F and seed moisture percentages greater than 50%. Air temperatures and seed moisture content during seed-filling are well above these minimums. But soybean seeds almost never germinate before maturity. Soybean, like many other grain crops, possess several mechanisms that prevent sprouting before maturity.

From The Desk Of Jack Zemlicka

Springing Ahead With Nitrogen Application In Strip-Till

By Jack Zemlicka posted on October 20, 2014 | Posted in Nutrient Management

As fall harvest winds down in some areas, many strip-tillers will soon be back in the field building berms and fertilizing for next spring's crop.

Five Things to Do Before Corn Harvest

By Bob Nielsen posted on September 5, 2014 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: Purdue University Extension

As the 2014 corn crop heads down the “home stretch” toward physiological maturity and harvest, here are a few items you may want to add to your “honey do” list.

Making Strip-Till Work Better

October 11, 2012 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming 101

More than a year of bone-dry weather in the Corn Belt and Great Plains may dim our memories of the 2009 harvest, when fields in some states turned into swamps and harvest stretched into March 2010.

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