agriculture

Reading the weekly weather and crop update from the Southern Research and Outreach Center at Waseca indicated another unusual week of weather. After seeing temperatures much above normal the previous week, it was the exact opposite the last week of June...

For quite some time the Minnesota Department of Agriculture has been developing rules for nitrogen management. Representatives of farm and environmental groups, researchers and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture worked together to develop these rules...

I sprayed some of my beans Saturday and then finished Monday afternoon. It would have been nice to get them all done Saturday so I did not have to go back Monday and look at them! The herbicides we need to control tough weeds like waterhemp and giant ragweed will turn some of the bean leaves brown...

The University of Minnesota Extension, Rochester will be sponsoring the 2017 Corn and Soybean Weed Management Tour on Thursday, July 6, from 9AM to 12:30PM. The field trial location is at the intersection of Highway 14 and County 22. This is just east of the Heintz Center and the College Campus in Rochester...

It was a tough week for corn last week as corn closed lower every day. Corn did not see huge losses each day but by the close Friday, July corn was 26-1/4 lower and new crop December lost 26-3/4 cents a bushel. The July corn options expired Friday so there was likely some "game playing" going on related to the options...

This weekend when I was out to the farm and I noticed some yellow leaves on scattered corn plants. The corn had a deep green color, which is a sign of a healthy crop. A yellow leaf scattered throughout the field was very easy to see even from the windshield...

Earlier this week the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced it was removing 640 stream miles from the public waters inventory. Actually, that was done about three months ago, but it became news this week when some environmental groups filed an appeal with the DNR...

It seems so far this season every week when I would read the weekly weather and crop update from the Southern Research and Outreach Center at Waseca the temperatures were either much above normal or much below. For a change this past week temperatures were about normal...

This is my cousin Chad's nitrogen side dress applicator. Chad bought an old 30-foot tool bar, high-speed disk coulters, pump and the tanks to build this rig. He can apply liquid nitrogen a couple of inches deep so you do not have to be concerned about the nitrogen volatizing or evaporating into the air...

I have been hearing and reading about Dicambia herbicide drifting to non-target crops in Missouri and Arkansas. This is a big issue because Dicambia is the active ingredient in Monsato's Xtendimax and BASF"s Engenia. Normally soybeans are killed by Dicambia...