Many moving parts need to be in place to get the best quality silage at harvest. With harvest quickly approaching, consider these four tips to help inform your silage harvest strategy.
Rollovers account for about half of the approximately 200 tractor-related fatalities reported every year in the United States. Filling bunker silos and drive-over piles can pose serious risks....
Due to low commodity prices and net returns over the past two to three years, a large amount of time and “expert” comment has been focused on what areas of a crop management plan to cut...
We all know diligent scouting is critical for the early detection of in-field problems such as insects, diseases, and weed pressure. If you’re not supplementing traditional scouting efforts...
Spring is in the air and the fields are starting to fill with green. The words in the back of everyone’s mind are: first crop. Time to get the equipment out, cleaned off, tuned-up and ready...
We have been dealing with waterhemp at the Deerfield location going back to the mid 1990s. We identified it in some of our grower’s peat fields raising mint. Waterhemp is in the...
As we warm up and melt the remaining snow away, the time to start evaluating our wheat stands is quickly approaching us. Winter wheat will only tiller for a short time after it breaks...
The past few weeks has given us a glimpse of spring in some areas of the state. As refreshing as it might be to see the snow begin to disappear, it means we are greatly stressing our alfalfa and...
Spring applications of manure are often conducted to empty the pits prior to the cropping season. While the nutrients within the manure are applied closer to crop uptake, some nutrients such as...