Incorporating manure into growing corn can boost crop yields, reduce nutrient losses, and give livestock producers or commercial manure applicators another window of time to apply manure to farm fields.

Your seed tube guards play a critical role in creating a proper furrow and achieving proper seed placement. Check the condition of your seed tubes before you take to the field. The Planter Maintenance series is brought to you by Precision Planting.

If reduced stands are a concern, a potential solution is to replant fields. However, before replanting corn or soybeans, consider these 3 steps. 

Strip-tiller Andy Jobman is finishing planting after severe drought followed by rain delayed his progress.

There are several herbicides, including residual products, that can be applied after planting up until corn and weeds reach a certain size or growth stage.

Some Minnesotans are experiencing a bit of weather whiplash as some areas that experienced a historically severe drought in 2021 are currently experiencing very wet weather. In addition to delaying spring planting, the weather also impacts when crop pests will emerge or arrive.

Although complete elimination of spray drift is impossible, problems can be reduced significantly if you are aware of major factors which influence drift and take precautions to minimize their influence on off-target movement of spray droplets.

Minnesota farmer Vance Johnson dedicated 60 acres to an experimental plot to learn more about farming the clays in the Red River Valley.