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.
Improving Corn Planting Accuracy and Plantability
The success of your crop largely depends on the precision with which you handle seed flow and singulation. This guide discusses the key factors affecting planting accuracy, the challenges of unpredictable spring weather, and action steps to ensure a successful corn planting season.
New Year, New Resolutions for the Farm
With the turn to the 2024 calendar usually brings posts of everyone sharing their New Year’s resolutions. While to most people it is in the form of eating healthier, working out more, being kinder to the neighbors, or traveling more the question we have is: what are your New Year’s resolutions for the farm? A wise person once shared a very simple, yet impactful phrase with me that’s very important as we set new goals and approach a new season. Simply put: don’t forget that sometimes you have to take the time to work ON the business and not always FOR the business. This all starts with reviewing the past, and deciding on what direction we are going in the future.
2023 Planting Season is All but Here….
“A goal without a plan is only a dream.” This quote resonates with preparing and carrying out a detailed cropping plan each year to reach higher and more challenging goals that you set for the operation. Without a plan in place of not only what is going to be done, but also HOW and by what standards things should be done, it will be nearly impossible to push your operation to new heights each year.