Five Easy Ways to Use Digital Ag to Improve Production on Your Farm
There are many digital ag platforms available to today’s farmers. These powerful tools allow growers to easily summarize and analyze their results from past [...]
A New Emerging Soybean Pest? Introducing the Dectes Stem Borer
This article was written in collaboration with Nick Seiter, Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois. There’s a new(er) soybean pest in town [...]
Unlocking the Secret to Sulfur in Soybeans
Sulfur is one of the essential nutrients that is required by all plants to live and successfully complete their life cycle. Just like any [...]
7 Apps to Use on Your Farm This Year
Whether we like it or not, cell phones, iPads and apps have become a part of our daily lives. These technologies have ushered in [...]
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 [...]
Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020
Every growing season provides us with an opportunity for learning, and 2019 was certainly no exception to this rule. Although we need to be [...]
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 [...]
Looking for the Silver Lining
2019 has been a year to remember, or maybe, it has been a year most of us in the agriculture community would like to [...]
2019 Weather Summary and a Look Forward to 2020
The 2019 weather year was chaotic and variable, with multiple extreme events that added tremendous difficulty for farmers and producers. Here I’ll review the [...]
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