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6 Disease Management Tips for Corn and Soybeans

Nov 25, 2025 | Answer Plot
With the strong disease pressures we saw in 2025, it’s a good idea to consider now how you’ll handle those potential threats in the upcoming season. Your crops (and your wallet) will benefit from a proactive approach to disease management. Here are six tips to plan ah...
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Why Seed Treatments Are Critical For Crop Success

Oct 28, 2025 | Answer Plot
Your crop has its maximum potential before the seed ever hits the soil. Every day after planting, biotic and abiotic stresses can chip away at that seed’s yield potential. That’s why investing in an effective seed treatment is so important. Seed treatments help protec...

What You Need to Know About the EPA Herbicide Strategy

Sep 08, 2025 | Answer Plot
On August 20, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final Herbicide Strategy, calling it an “unprecedented step” toward protecting more than 900 federally endangered and threatened species from the potential impacts of herbicide use. At ...
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Introducing a Simplified Way to Boost Herbicide Performance

Sep 01, 2025 | Answer Plot
Today’s agronomic landscape demands more from every application. Weed pressures are increasing with more than 250 weed species now resistant to at least one herbicide mode or site of action.1 Tank mixes are becoming increasingly complex, and increased weather variability is...
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Managing Southern Rust in Corn

Aug 14, 2025 | Answer Plot
Last season, southern rust was easy to find in cornfields across much of the Midwest. Unfortunately for farmers, all the elements of the disease triangle aligned in 2025. There were plenty of host crops when southern rust spores blew in, and warm humid conditions increased the su...

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