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5 Considerations for Fall Anhydrous
While we’ve seen a drop in soil temps at 2 inches and 4 inches during the last week, as this cold front moves out and we return to highs...
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Rachel
Oct 30, 20193 min read
Top 5 Reasons You Should be Soil Sampling
We may be a little biased, but we think soil sampling is one of the most important purchases you can make for your farm. With influence...
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Rachel
Oct 16, 20194 min read
Our Stalk Rot Situation: Update and Best Management Practices
We’ve had all sorts of challenges this growing season, what’s one more? Conditions were right this year for more extensive development of...
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Rachel
Oct 2, 20195 min read
The Race to Soybean Maturity
Raise your hand if you planted some soybeans later than you would have liked this year. That it seemingly the reality for northeast...
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Rachel
Sep 18, 20194 min read
SDS in Full Swing--Take Action to Prepare for 2020 and 2021
I know we aren’t supposed to complain about rain—and I’m not! But I will just say, the unusually wet growing season we have had has led...
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Rachel
Sep 4, 20195 min read
Will a Cloudy August Impact Corn Yields?
Introduction Over the last month or so, we’ve experienced a startling amount of cloudy and wet weather. And while this can have...
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Rachel
Aug 21, 20196 min read
The Pioneers of Corn Breeding: The Corn Revolution of 1926
Each week I check in with Andy to see what the hot topic is around the office and try to focus my blog post on something that would help...
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Rachel
Aug 5, 20195 min read
Southern Rust Outlook 2019
The top two diseases causing economic impact in corn each year are Gray Leaf Spot and Southern Rust. While we generally get GLS each...
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Rachel
Jul 24, 20194 min read
Soybean Fungicide Applications, 2018 Results and 4 year summary
Sometimes its just hard to believe how fast the time goes. Believe it or not, its time to talk soybean fungicides again. Before you hit...
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Rachel
Jul 3, 20195 min read
Thistle caterpillars, Painted Ladies, and Japanese Beetles, oh my!
You may have noticed in the last few weeks a fair amount of defoliation from Thistle caterpillars or Painted Lady caterpillars. What are...
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Rachel
Jun 13, 20194 min read
In-Season Nitrogen: Sidedress and Rescue Operations
Weather has posed a lot of different challenges for us this spring. From delayed planting and spraying, this year has been anything but...
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Rachel
May 25, 20197 min read
Late Planting Considerations for Corn
Its not a topic we were hoping to have to be discussing. But here we are, end of May, and its time for that talk. Late planting...
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Rachel
May 15, 20195 min read
Current Challenges for May 2019: Large Weeds, and PPO Damage
This blog is going to be a little bit of a mashup of topics covering some of the more critical issues we’ve been seeing in the field....
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Rachel
Apr 30, 20197 min read
In Pursuit of High Yield Corn
High Yielding Corn If I had to guess, pursuing higher yielding corn is a goal for most of you. Who doesn’t want to see those numbers on...
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Rachel
Apr 24, 20191 min read
Know your Early Season Seedling Diseases
While spring so far this year has been fairly dry and warm, conditions can still arise that would lead to development of some early...
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Rachel
Apr 17, 20194 min read
In-Field Planter Adjustments--It's not too late!
While the majority of planter adjustments should have taken place when the planter was parked in the shop or in the yard, there are still...
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Rachel
Apr 10, 20194 min read
Planting Depth is More Important than you Think...
Introduction It’s probably a topic that you don’t think about a lot. What is the best corn planting depth? We set our planters and go....
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Rachel
Apr 3, 20196 min read
2019 Conditions are Favorable. Are you ready for the Possibility of Sudden Death Syndrome?
Introduction Sudden Death Syndrome is the second most costly soybean disease, second only to Soybean Cyst Nematode. It was first...
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Rachel
Mar 27, 20195 min read
Timing Spring Anhydrous Applications with Planting Time for a Successful Growing Season
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the best practice options for what is shaping up to be a tight spring. We are unfortunately...
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Rachel
Mar 20, 20196 min read
Stepping Up Your Management Game: Soybean Cyst Nematode
It’s the costliest soybean disease in the United States, and has been in Brown County for around 20 years now. These facts alone give us...
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