Seed
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.
Like anything in life, there are pros and cons to either choice you make. Before you make a decision, understand what you might sacrifice or gain by using certified or bin-run (also called saved or non-certified) seed.
You might pay more than others if your seed choice benefits you more, companies say
The Japanese beetle is becoming an increasingly prevalent pest in the north-central region of the U.S.
Farmers may be wondering what all the wet weather they had this season is doing to their soil and what does that mean for next years crop? Pam Fretwell sits down with Kurt Seevers Technical Dev. Manager with Verdisian about that subject.
Dave Hula is cognizant of the potential benefits of taking care of microbes in the soil and seeks to boost their populations with additional carbon.