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If you’re like most other farmers, you’ve often asked yourself, Is there anything I can do to optimize my corn yields and increase profitability on my acres?
Before loading up the sprayer make sure that you check on the field to make sure any chemical that you are applying will be safe for emerging crops. If beans start popping up many of the pre chemicals...
Soil temps and field conditions have allowed for a very good seedbed, and everyone is talking about how good field conditions are. Planting corn and soybeans this early is really setting us up for the...
It may seem a little early to be thinking about fungicides with spring just getting underway, but it is time to start planning for summer fungicide applications
We are all anxious to get into the field and it will be important to take our time to make sure we do everything we can to make this a good crop. We can’t control the weather so we need to make ...
I do believe anytime we can extend the growing season we should look to do so, but we must make sure to follow good agronomics. Planting too early when conditions could turn cold could leave a lot of ...
Yes, you may get by without using a pre chemical for a year or two, but it will eventually catch up to us. We’ll end up making larger populations of weeds that are resistant/tolerant to the chem...
For a long time, we have looked to phosphorus and potassium for our crops’ fertilizer needs. We now know that we need to think about micronutrients as well. We may have all the macronutrients th...
The SFG Agronomy Sales staff had the opportunity to attend the 2024 Agribusiness Association Showcase and Conference last week. I wanted to take some time to highlight the top few items I took from th...
Yellowing of corn and soybeans on the new foliage is a tell-tale sign of sulfur deficiencies. Many people often mistake sulfur deficiencies for nitrogen deficiency. The main difference between the two...