Make A New Year’s Resolution to Manage Farm Risk
At the top of most Americans’ New Year’s resolutions are things like eating healthier, exercising more and losing weight. Being health-conscious coming into the [...]
Big Data vs. Digital Data
Big data has taken the agriculture industry by storm. It has been well received by some, and resented by others, for a multitude of [...]
How to Determine If You Are Using the Right Products On Your Farm
With the modern advancements in production agriculture, producers are seeing new products enter the marketplace faster than ever. It can be challenging to keep [...]
Do You Have the Proper TIPS?
It seems like nothing is simple anymore. After the introduction of glyphosate tolerant soybeans in the mid-1990s, herbicide applications where somewhat simplified. In recent [...]
Will High-Yielding Beans Work for You?
Most farmers and agronomists would agree that seed selection is one of the single most important decisions that can be made for an upcoming [...]
Premium Discount
This December a new premium discount program is available to farmers who plant cover crops ahead of a federally insured commodity crop and insured [...]
Four Soybean Seed Decisions for 2020
Even before farmers across the state have parked their combines for the winter, the time for considering 2020 seed orders is upon us. Generally, [...]
How To Establish an Agronomy Trial
In modern production agriculture, research and agronomic trials have expanded beyond small strip trials and university research. Many producers are developing their own highly [...]
What Does a CCA Soy Envoy Do?
It was an 86-year-long journey that eventually launched the modern Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) program. The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), currently headquartered in [...]
Do You Have a Crop Insurance Claim?
This year’s planting season created several challenges, not just for Illinois soybean producers, but for growers across the country. There have been several reports [...]
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