Dodging Weed Escapes from the Combine
Soybean harvest has had its ups and downs this fall. But if I had to single out the biggest in-field challenge, it would be [...]
Steps to Creating an Entity
There are many reasons individuals decide to formalize their operation into a business entity. A variety of entity structures are available for business owners [...]
Warm Fall Weather Leads to Increase in Wheat Planting
As we approach the last week of October, most of the wheat seeding is complete in Illinois and as we count acres, wheat planting [...]
Murphy’s Law Applies to 2020
Most of us know Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” As I write this article, I can see 2020 raising [...]
Digital Tools to Better Understand Harvest Data
Harvest data is very beneficial when showing us what happened in a field, or to a product, but it doesn’t always give us the [...]
Four Questions About Early Planting Answered
If you have followed any of my work over the past few years, it will come as no surprise that I am an advocate [...]
How To Evaluate Your Treatment Plan
In modern soybean production there are a lot of products and a lot of research being done to help improve growers’ yields and profitability. [...]
Prepping Soybean Fields for Next Year
Much of the soybean crop is now harvested and growers are starting to finish up with their corn acres. If they haven’t started already, [...]
What’s Your Fall Fertilizer Plan?
Harvest is moving right along, and some fall fertilizers have already been put on or are going to be applied as harvest ends. Usually [...]
What and Where Is Your Weed Problem?
This time of year, growers are riding in combines and grain carts over thousands of acres, and it’s hard not to find areas of [...]
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