Grass Control In Corn
By Darren Hefty Roundup Ready Corn was first commercialized in the United States back in 1998. Do you remember what a big deal that was? It was a step-change in weed management at the time, but not...
View ArticleHow To Do Drainage For Less
By Brian Hefty Whether you’ve been tiling for years or are still thinking about tiling your first field, we invite you to attend this year’s free Ag PhD Tiling Clinic Tuesday, February 28th at the...
View ArticleAg PhD 2017 Soils and Tiling Clinics
At Ag PhD, we have 3 goals: to help you produce more yield, to help you increase your profits, and to help you improve the environment, especially your soil. Over the next month, we invite you to join...
View ArticleCould You Get 50% More Pasture Grass?
By Brian Hefty What would it do to your bottom line if you could improve your grass production in your pastures by 50% each year? Over the years, Darren and I have not only had the good fortune to...
View ArticleWhat Are We Using on Our Farm?
By Darren Hefty Brian and I get a lot of questions throughout the year about what we are doing on our farm. After all, you can give all the advice in the world but it doesn’t have much credibility if...
View ArticleXtend and Liberty Q & A
By Brian Hefty I believe 2017 will be the largest one-year trait shift in soybeans in history! Some areas are going heavy on Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans. Other pockets are shifting to LibertyLink...
View ArticleVariable Rate Planting Population
By Darren Hefty When I was younger, my dad would often switch planting populations from field to field. On the sandier fields, he’d cut back. On the good ground, he’d bump the population up....
View ArticleMaximizing VT Double Pro Yields
By Brian Hefty With margins squeezed on most farms, VT Double Pro corn hybrids became a popular choice this winter. It’s great that you saved money by not investing in a rootworm trait, but I want to...
View ArticlePrice Drops and Price Protection
By Brian Hefty If you buy a crop input product and the price drops after you buy, are you price protected? Here’s an example. In mid-February, most mesotrione (the active ingredient in Callisto)...
View ArticleLots of Pre-Emerge Choices for Corn
By Brian Hefty When I was a young agronomist over 25 years ago, it was easy making a recommendation to corn farmers. Would you like to use old Lasso pre-emerge or go with Dual or Eradicane?...
View ArticleShould I Cut My Soybean Planting Population?
By Darren Hefty When it comes to planting population, soybeans are a little tricky. We get asked about lowering planting populations all the time. If lower means 140,000 seeds per acre to you, then...
View ArticleAg PhD Field Day July 27th!
By Brian Hefty We invite you to attend the Ag PhD Field Day on our farm near Baltic, SD on Thursday, July 27th! We are located just 15 minutes from the Sioux Falls airport, and less than 10 miles from...
View ArticleWheat Input Cuts
By Darren Hefty I can run the numbers, too. Tightening your belt on the wheat acres is a good idea, but if you sacrifice more bushels than what you gain in cost-savings, you fall even further behind....
View ArticleSoybeans – How Many Pre’s Do You Need?
By Brian Hefty Tens of millions of soybean acres in the U.S. are switching this year from Roundup beans to either Xtend or LibertyLink soybeans due to weed resistance. How does that change your...
View ArticlePlant Tissue Testing
By Darren Hefty Getting the balance of available fertility just right for your crop is difficult. Fortunately, there are a couple of cheap and easy tools to help you do just that. The first one is a...
View ArticleHow to Use Dicamba Correctly in Xtend
By Brian Hefty When I was a young agronomist more than 25 years ago, almost every farmer I worked with was using Banvel, the dimethylamine salt of dicamba. However, these farmers would constantly...
View ArticleCorn Fungicide at V4-V7
By Darren Hefty You’ve gotten the crop in (or you’re nearing completion) and so far have made the fertility choices and weed control decisions necessary for a high-yielding crop. Is now the time to...
View ArticleCorn Post Weed Control
By Brian Hefty It wasn’t many years ago when this article could be summarized in one word on many farms: Roundup. Unfortunately today, Roundup may not be controlling all your waterhemp, Palmer...
View ArticleAg PhD Field Day July 27th!
By Brian Hefty Join us this summer at the free Ag PhD Field Day on Thursday, July 27th! We are located outside of Baltic, SD, just 15 minutes from the Sioux Falls airport, and less than 10 miles from...
View ArticleAg PhD Field Day July 27th!
By Brian Hefty Here are 15 great reasons you need to attend this year’s Ag PhD Field Day on Thursday, July 27th! There is nowhere else in the country you will be able to hear from the collection of...
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