In this Strip-Till Farmer Podcast, bought to you by Topcon Agriculture, we're joined by strip-tiller Tryston Beyrer, who shares research results of comparative fertilizer trials to include banded vs. broadcast applications.

Jared Roberts, vice president of sales for Legion Bio Chem, talks about the new fertilizer and biologicals company just launched at the Farm Progress Show and offers details on their biologicals lineup.

Midwestern BioAg (MBA) has launched a wholesale and ag retail sales strategy through an exciting new partnership with Vivid Life Sciences. Vivid has an extensive wholesale and ag retail distribution network and together the two companies will introduce the TerraNu Nutrient Technology products throughout the United States.

By just mixing and analyzing your manure, the risk of over- or under-applying nitrogen goes down immensely.

When it comes to crop production, averages don’t work as a guide for fertilizing and controlling weeds or pests. If a grower collects data and then uses averages as a guide, the field will be over-fertilized in some places and under-fertilized in others.

Corn and soybean take up relatively large amounts of phosphorus (P) and potassium (K), and much of this P and K ends up in the grain that is taken off the field during harvest. In order to keep soil nutrient levels from dropping over time, the amounts removed need to be replaced by applying fertilizer or manure. In order to know how much nutrient a crop removes, we need to know how much there is in a bushel of harvested grain.

Fall soil sampling may be the key to spring crop management decisions. Here are 5 reasons why it can make sense.