Category: Crop Schools

If you’re crunching numbers and figuring out ways to tighten up margins, one overlooked option could ensuring you’re getting the full value of the pesticides you apply. One way to measure this is by evaluating the amount of pesticide leftover after spraying.Tom Wolf of AgriMetrix and Sprayers 101 joins Kara Oosterhuis for this episode of… Read More

Every conversation on soil health these days eventually comes around to the topic of organic matter.Does it really matter? What percentage should farmers have in their soil? How do you conserve organic matter? How do you build it?On this episode of Soil School, Bernard Tobin and University of Minnesota soil extension specialist Jodi DeJong-Hughes tackle… Read More

We know that phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) are needed in soybeans to achieve those high yields. But what’s the right soil test level of each of these macronutrients, what happens when there’s too much or too little, and how does that level affect soybean yield?To answer these questions, RealAg’s Bernard Tobin is joined by… Read More

What’s the secret to growing those gigantic corn yields that turn a select few U.S. farmers into corn yield contest kings?Purdue University corn guru Dr. Bob Nielsen has been pouring over National Corn Yield Contest data and crop input and management summaries from winners for almost two decades. What has he learned? After all that… Read More

The topic of soil health has gained a tremendous amount of followers over the last ten years. There’s a large, dynamic community devoted to the topic, too — from farmers and researchers, to consultants and extension specialists.Dr. Abbey Wick, extension soil health specialist and associate professor at North Dakota State University (NDSU), recently presented at… Read More

Tillage destroys soil structure, cuts organic matter and decreases soil water infiltration. If that’s the case, reducing tillage makes sense, right?But the decision is not that simple, says Jodi DeJong-Hughes, University of Minnesota soil and tillage extension specialist.In her presentation at the virtual Ontario Agricultural Conference, DeJong-Hughes notes that there’s no hard and fast rule to… Read More

The time of year where many are starting to plan for their 2021 growing season has begun, and at the end of the day, the markets will play into those decisions. While we need to be able to make a profit off of the crops we put so much effort into, we also can’t deny… Read More

If better seed singulation, metering, and depth control improve uniformity of wheat emergence, growth, and crop canopy, will that add up to more grain in the bin?That’s a question that was asked back in September and that Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson and Joanna Follings have been striving to answer. In this Wheat School episode we… Read More

Whether you’re an experienced soybean grower, or are looking to get into this interesting leguminous oilseed crop, there’s always something to learn.In this episode of Soybean School, we take a look back at the past year’s soybean season in Manitoba — what went right, what went wrong, and what kind of knowledge we gleaned from… Read More

When it comes to marketing grain crops, we all seem to have different strategies, and there isn’t necessarily one ‘correct’ answer. In the late 2020 oilseeds market, we are seeing highs that haven’t been experienced in years. And the prices just keep climbing. Those that sold weeks ago at what they thought were the highs,… Read More