One of our Indiana clients texted late yesterday: “This season it’s easy to tell who planted dicamba beans. Those are the only ones not all puckered up. It’s a seed monopoly — the only kind to plant if you don’t want clobbered beans.” July 18, 2019 — Our Indiana client followed up by detailing that “one reason […]
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Variations in crops are so dramatic this year that it may be January before there’s a rough consensus on actual yields and harvested acres. We’ve been visiting with farmers and consultants, asking what they’re recommending to accelerate growth to make the most of every growing degree day. Soon we’ll post a compilation of their ideas, fused
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William C. Fordham, founder of C&S Grain Market Consulting, unexpectedly departed for Heaven last evening. That leaves behind his wife Marilyn, his grateful clients and hundreds of farmer friends. He also leaves unstaffed one of the most detailed computer databases of market-moving historic corn and soybean data we’ve ever seen. For 21 years, he provided clients exquisitely detailed analyses, using years of previous
Amie Bandy just published an analysis of this season’s lagging Growing Degree Units (GDU), projecting how the corn crop will likely develop through this growing season. The action point we see in her study: Careful nutritional stimulus will help keep your corn growing actively through every day until a hard freeze. We encourage you to visit the
Here’s the promised followup to our May 20 report from Jeff Adams near Chebanse, Illinois. In that preview, Jeff Adams alerted us that emerging corn looked greener “to the row” where he applied in-furrow microbes in Environoc 401 and biostimulants in Vitazyme — plus WakeUP Spring to mobilize these yield boosters into new roots. June 15, 2019 —
Freshly emerged corn on the left side of the nearby photo came from a test row which had no nutrient or biological supports applied with the planter. The corn on the right, planted nearby, received the “full program” of beneficial biological products and 2×2 starter nutrients. The list below is recommended by Brad Forkner, crop and
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Season-long nutrition is the main point which Illinois ag consultant Brad Forkner emphasized when we phoned him about the robust corn roots he dug yesterday. This stalk came from a client’s farm near Hamilton, Michigan. Already at growth stage V3, it has punched down long roots loaded with a network of branch roots — after only 270 growing
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Rain-soaked Indiana growers are still facing some of this spring’s most severe planting delays. But no-till cover crop growers are gaining a time advantage: Fibrous roots of the covers keep the soil firmer, the grasses and legumes are wicking up excess rain, and root pathways help rain infiltrate. June 5, 2019 — When Hal Brown of
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Larry Eekhoff, owner of the consulting firm Agronomy Rx at Webster City, IA sent us these photos today, dramatizing corn’s vigorous response to a streamed-on blend of nutrients and biologicals — mobilized with WakeUP Spring. June 1, 2019 — Larry’s client used streamjet nozzles to pinpoint the liquid blend on both sides of each row, immediately following the planter on April
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Jeff Adams, who farms about 40 miles south of the Chicago metro region, was able to plant corn on part of his sandy ground April 23. Some fields received an in-furrow blend of WakeUP Spring, 6 ounces of Vitazyme, 16 ounces of Biodyne’s “Environoc 401” microbial mix, plus 3-18-18. Today Jeff phoned to report that his treated corn is about V2 stage, and