In our Precision Planting test plot we identified a large amount of cutworm damage. The field was planted with a research planter without the ability to apply a soil insecticide. The rest of our corn had an insecticide applied and no damage was found. Before applying a rescue treatment of insecticide I contacted our plot […]
Yesterday, for the third time in four years, we hosted a group of Brazilian farmers that are visiting the U.S. The group was sponsored by Syngenta. They were very interested in learning about what technologies and agronomic practices we are using for corn and soybean production here in the Midwest. It was hard for us […]
The 2014 planting season has been a pleasant change from recent years. The weather and conditions have been much better than what we have seen in the past three years. We finished planting all the corn on Monday May 5th. The last day planting was spent putting in two test plots, one working with Precision Planting using their new […]