Smart Fertilizer Strategies
When it comes to fertilizer, choosing what and when to apply can be difficult decisions. Whether adding nutrients in the fall, the spring, or not at all, this guide will help you make the decision a little easier.
Preparing for an Exceptional 2025 Crop
By Jerry Hartsock & Dakota Miller Cutting Edge Consulting & Research Services As we get further into harvest and closer to the “spooky” season, we believe there are certain considerations to think about so that we do not have any nightmares from 2024 that...
Best Practices for Storing Grain
Proper grain storage is essential to keeping moisture low and quality high, whether holding to sell or incorporating into livestock feed rations when you decide to locally store your own grain The key to good grain storage is to put the highest-quality grain into the...
Yield Impacts from Anthracnose in Soybeans
While anthracnose in soybeans often goes unnoticed during the growing season, this disease can subtly undermine seed quality and overall yield during harvest.
Proper Corn Harvest Timing Matters
Proper timing of corn harvest has important implications for harvestable yield, grain drying costs, and profits. Take these key steps in order to nail down harvest timing this season and seasons to come.
How Stalk and Root Deterioration Can Affect Harvest Plans
Corn standability depends on a combination of plant quality, stalk strength, and root strength. Stalk lodging is the breakage of the stalk below the ear. Root lodging results from the root system’s inability to anchor the plant and keep it vertical, which causes...
Set the Stage for Success in 2025 with the Best Yields & Tactics in 2024
Harvest is just around the corner for many. It’s also the time to start setting the stage for success in the 2025 season. It starts by establishing priorities and a plan for going into harvest, managing residue, and understanding how what you do now through the fall will affect next year’s growing season.
Northern Corn Leaf Blight
Northern Corn Leaf Blight (NCLB) is a critical concern for corn growers, as it can severely impact crop health and yield under favorable conditions for the pathogen. The disease, driven by Exserohilum turcicum, thrives in warm, wet environments and can quickly spread if not controlled.
Early Season Soybean Concerns – Part 3
What are the needs of your crop now? Do you know? See what to be on the lookout for in the coming weeks.
Early Season Soybean Concerns – Part 2
Damping off is the rotting and death of seeds and seedlings and the symptoms can show in soybean plants prior to or just after emergence. Pathogens that can cause damping off, such as Pythium, Fusarium, Phytophthora, and Rhizoctonia are generally favored by wet soils following planting and for most of the country we certainly have had just that this year.