Rich Keller
On-the-go Mobile Weather offered by John Deere
Detecting the weather conditions on the go has become a feature that ag retailers and custom applicators are seeing as extremely important in today’s regulated application business, and the electronics for this weather-condition monitoring has become readily available from John Deere.
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Key Issues Perspective: Corn earworm a major problem in soybeans
How far north will corn earworms be a problem for soybean growers in 2012? The degree of the problem and where the problem will occur north of the Mason Dixon line are nearly impossible to predict, but Mid-South entomologists know how intense the corn earworm problem can be in any given year.
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12 Respect the Rotation field days scheduled
Helping cultivate ideas and answers to weed resistance to herbicides is why Bayer CropScience and its university partners have scheduled 12 Respect the Rotation field day events for 2012 at research facilities and farms throughout the Midwest and South.
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Look at Chinese investment in Australian ag
Those involved in Australian agriculture and foreign trade are looking at Chinese investment to develop farming operations in the northern portion of Australia.
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Farmers & Ranchers Alliance plans for more impact
The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) held its spring meeting last week. Conversations centered on the impact the alliance is having in improving U.S. agriculture's image and enhancing consumer confidence in today's agriculture.
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Corn replant considerations
Farmers definitely don’t want to replant a corn field unless absolutely necessary to assure an economical crop to harvest, and, therefore, retailer agronomists and crop consultants are often expected to help farmers make the nay or yea decision.
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Limit on crop insurance subsidy could save $1 billion
The GAO examined the impact of limiting federal crop insurance subsidies to $40,000 per entity at the request of Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
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Glyphosate-resistant weeds hit USA Today
Farmers are quoted as using more chemicals to combat weeds resistant to glyphosate herbicides in a USA Today article in the newspaper and on line.
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Resistant weeds means more post equipment needed
The days of easy, simple weed control using all post applied herbicides are gone because of weed resistance. There isn’t enough custom application equipment plus farmer equipment in use today to do the number of applications exactly when the applications need done, according to one plant science professor.
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Big range in custom application costs
Cost of hiring custom application or performing custom application work for others is gathered in a farmer survey by Iowa State University. What is obvious when it comes to spraying and spreading is that there are highly variable costs in Iowa.
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Sustainability metrics too tight for every farm
The measurement of sustainability from one farm to the next farm seems almost impossible based on a single set of metrics or a tightly written definition.
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