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Beck's: Chopping Corn Head Provides Up to 15-Bushel Yield Advantage

Residue management at the combine is important, and steps you take to promote good residue practices will positively impact next year's planting pass.

September 28, 2023

Whether you are harvesting corn or soybeans, residue management at the combine is important. Any steps you take to better promote good residue practices will positively impact the following season's planting pass and will continue into stand establishment.

Blog: Has Fertilizer Canada Given Up on the 4R Principles?

September 30, 2022 | Posted in Nutrient Management

Recent Fertilizer Canada lobbying has morphed the fourth principle from Right rates to holding the line at rates without “a mandatory reduction in the use of fertilizers.” These are 3R and STIR (same to increased rates) principles. Is this right?

OSU Suggests Stem Count to Evaluate Winter Wheat Yield

By Laura Lindsey posted on March 29, 2022 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Source: The Ohio State University

While parts of Ohio and other Midwestern states have been wet this winter and wheat stands may look poor, stem counts may better correlate to potential yields.

What Strip-Tillers Need to Know to Maximize Nitrogen Advisory Tools

By Jack Zemlicka posted on May 28, 2020

Making the most of your nitrogen investment is critical along with knowing how transformation, loss processes and the crop demand curve impact yield. Brad Carlson, extension educator with the University of Minnesota, will deliver recent research to assist farmers with understanding for selecting the right N tools to suit their nutrient management needs at the 2020 National Strip-Tillage Conference.

Mixing and Matching Inputs and Rotations

January 4, 2018 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Source: Alexis Stockford, Manitoba Co-operator

Brandon researchers spent 18 years combining three different input levels and crop rotations to study the impact on nutrients, soil quality, yield and implications for climate change.

How to Select Corn Hybrids for Silage

December 10, 2014 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Choosing the right corn hybrid to plant for silage can be tricky. We know what to look for when choosing corn hybrids for grain &mash; yield, standability, maturity and pest resistance â€” but what should we look for in silage?

Wandering Swath Width Syndrome

Yield Monitoring Errors

October 10, 2014 | Posted in Precision Agriculture

Source: Purdue University Extension, R.L. (Bob) Nielsen

While we often focus on the importance of yield monitor calibration relative to logging accurate yield estimates during grain harvest (Luck & Fulton, 2014), there are other yield monitor settings that can inadvertently influence yield estimates.

'Keep It Simple' Strategy

Developing A Successful Strip-Till Operation

April 9, 2014 | Posted in Cover Crops

LaPorte City, Iowa, farmer Dean Fehl shares his 'keep it simple' strategy for developing a successful strip-till operation, which has contributed to a double-digit increase in corn yield and helped solve some of the challenges he faced no-tilling corn into soybean stubble.

Preventing, Managing Nematodes In Soybeans

March 11, 2014 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: University of Arkansas

Nematodes are common pests in many soybean fields in the state. Sometimes called the "hidden enemy"?, root-knot, soybean cyst, and reniform nematodes can be costly if they are ignored. Because they are not visible, damage caused by nematodes is often overlooked.

Timing Of Nitrogen Application Can Enhance Yields

January 30, 2014 | Posted in Nutrient Management

Source: DuPont Pioneer

DuPont Pioneer experts suggest growers continue to look for ways to make the application of nutrients — particularly nitrogen — as efficient as possible.

Articles Tagged with ''yield''

Beck's: Chopping Corn Head Provides Up to 15-Bushel Yield Advantage

Blog: Has Fertilizer Canada Given Up on the 4R Principles?

OSU Suggests Stem Count to Evaluate Winter Wheat Yield

What Strip-Tillers Need to Know to Maximize Nitrogen Advisory Tools

Mixing and Matching Inputs and Rotations

How to Select Corn Hybrids for Silage

Yield Monitoring Errors

Developing A Successful Strip-Till Operation

Preventing, Managing Nematodes In Soybeans

Timing Of Nitrogen Application Can Enhance Yields

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