Seed-Placed Fertilizer & Seed Size Performance

Agronomists are always looking for ways to help growers place plant nutrients beneath the soil surface for maximum agronomic effectiveness. Applying fertilizer directly with the seed is one option, but there is a limit to how much fertilizer can be placed there. There...

Combatting Winter Weeds

Winter annual weeds have been actively growing throughout this mild winter. Mustards, Henbit, Downy Brome and Marestail are all lying in wait. Albeit slowly, they are growing and waiting for consistently warmer weather to “bolt” out of the rosette stage of life. If...

Using Your Bean

For the past few years (last year, more than ever), local growers planted early maturity soybeans (early Group 2) earlier in the season (late April/early May). They have also planted mid-Group 3 soybeans during this same timeframe. There are economic reasons we do...

Protect Your Nitrogen Investment With TILL-IT FLUID CARBON

The Nitrogen Cycle in soils is a very leaky system, meaning nitrogen can be lost to the environment by several mechanisms, and losses can be significant (up to 40+%). These losses reduce Nitrogen Uptake Efficiency (NUE) and return on fertilizer investment, which is of...

Broad Spectrum Weed Control

Before the Roundup Ready Row Crop Revolution that began in 1996, we actively used pre-emergence tank mixes with a fair amount of success for weed control. At that time, there was still a large amount of tillage used, not near as many herbicide options to select from,...

Fighting Drought Stress

In Nebraska, we are still in the grips of a dry weather pattern. See below for a mid-winter look at the drought monitor: VIEW DROUGHT MONITOR >   Currently, parts of Nebraska are some of the driest areas in the country. We have had some precipitation as rain...