Seed

The Natural Soybean and Grain Alliance (NSGA) has high hopes for UA 5814HP, a new variety commercially available beginning in fall 2015. UA5814HP, branded as Ashlock HP5A, is a vigorous variety aimed at high seed yield and protein to meet the demand from the high-end poultry industry.

There’s less fiber and post-gin cottonseed to supply byproduct markets

An unprecedented scale of seed information is available to growers. Rolling back the curtain on seed performance is no longer the sole realm of breeders and scientists, but is wide open for growers and agronomists.

NRGene unravels crop genomes to produce accurate, cost-effective DNA sequence

When buying and transporting used equipment, pigweed has been known to tag along for the ride.

Neonicotinoid loss would carry mammoth consequences for farmers

When buying seed, yield potential, disease resistance and stress tolerance are top of mind. Seed companies also add seed purity to that list.

Prior to Bt technologies farmers lost $1 billion annually to CRW—in the form of chemical costs or actual yield loss. With resistance to traits on the rise, it might nibble its way back to a billion-dollar price tag.

Plan for a normal crop, hope for the biggest crop of your career and then mitigate the risk of a drought or crop failure.

Here are recommendations for first-year corn and continuous corn.