Let’s say you’re driving down the road and you see an obvious test plot with some pretty darn good looking corn and you want to know why it looks so much better than yours. Chances are you never really have gotten the answer to what varieties or practices the grower might be testing that you could try yourself. What if … Read More
Fall Nitrogen Management
As farmers finish the harvest this season and begin to prepare fields for next year, it is important that they look at nitrogen management with a systems approach, according to GROWMARK Agronomy Services Manager Dr. Howard Brown. “If we look at how the crop grows, we have to keep in mind nutrition and so putting all the nitrogen on at … Read More
FS Green Plan Offers Solutions to Maximize Every Acre
When farmers want to increase their yields – and what farmer doesn’t? – they really need a systems based approach to maximizing what they get from every acre, and that is what FS Green Plan Solutions is all about. At the 2011 Farm Progress Show, I talked with Neil Eimer, Evergreen FS Crop Specialist in the central Illinois counties of … Read More
Evergreen FS Tends FPS Fields
What makes the Farm Progress Show so special every year is the opportunity to watch real equipment working in real fields, so making the demo plots the best they can be is important, no matter what kind of tricks Mother Nature plays during the growing season. That was the job of Evergreen FS this year as the agronomy sponsor for … Read More
FS Green Plan Solutions Overview
Meet Sid Parks, Manager, Precision Farming. That means we talked about FS Green Plan Solutions, a broad area of products and services offered to local FS retailers and a sponsor of Precision.AgWired.com. We’ve certainly introduced you to this part of GROWMARK before but thought you might be interested in Sid’s outlook. The definition of precision farming is very broad and … Read More