By John Brien, AgriGold agronomist Planting is one of the most anticipated times of years for farmers. The weather warms up, the soils dry out and there is another opportunity for them to try their hands at producing that record yielding corn crop. High yields begin at planting and will not be finalized until harvest. [...]

By Dave Nanda, Seed Consultants, Inc. Labs may differ in the data presentation and analysis but your understanding of the basic items would help you in ordering fertilizers for your fields. A soil test is a way of estimating the nutrients that may be available to the crop. Keep the following points in mind as [...]

By Jeff Rectenwald, Asgrow Dekalb Technical Agronomist The 2012 growing conditions resulted in production soybean seed being larger in size for many seed products. Therefore, planting equipment manuals should be reviewed to determine the appropriate settings, calibrations, and disks for delivered seed. Seed size should be checked when seed is delivered to determine if different [...]

Extreme changes in temperature are the biggest concern wheat producers have for the development of their crop this season, a Purdue Extension agronomist said. Temperatures in recent weeks have risen to between 50 and 60 degrees and then dropped to single digits. “The cycling of cold to warm temperatures is a great recipe for freezing, [...]