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USDA Validates that Gypsum Improves Soil Health and Water Quality

September 3, 2015

New Conservation Standards have been approved by USDA/NRCS for gypsum in agricultural soils. The benefits of gypsum use listed in the regulations are: Improve soil health by improving physical/chemical properties and increasing infiltration of the soil. Improve surface water quality by reducing dissolved phosphorus concentrations in surface runoff and subsurface drainage. Improve soil health by […]

Plant Analysis Reveals Manganese and Boron Shortages

July 15, 2015

The plant analysis that we have taken have shown some interesting results. Although we have seen difference among farmers and fields, a couple of nutrients that have often shown low or deficient have been manganese and boron. This makes sense because boron is a mobile nutrient in the soil and with all the rains received […]

Sulfur Nutrition

June 26, 2015

Sulfur Nutrition-Like Nitrogen, but Different Both sulfur and nitrogen are critical for protein development and for chlorophyll production so one may assume that both nutrients are required at the same time and react similarly in the plant. However, this is not completely correct. One major factor to consider is that nitrogen is quite mobile in […]

What about applying sugar with your post emergent herbicides or with your foliar applications of nutrients?

June 10, 2015

A few years ago I heard many crop advisors and producers laugh when it was mentioned to use sugar. More recently there is more and more credence put to the use of sugars in crop production. There are a number of opinions as to why it works. I will outline some below. Farmers doing on-farm […]

Drone footage-Planting 2015

June 3, 2015

Check out drone footage of our 72 Row Twin 20’s planter. Click link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE_m5IHmzq4

Don’t forget the Micro-organisms!

May 26, 2015

At first glance, soil appears to be quite lifeless, however, when you look at it under a microscope you find that it is anything but. In a single teaspoon of soil it is estimated that there are billions of microbes. Microbe populations include fungi, bacteria, protozoa, actinomycetes and nematodes. The area around the plant roots […]