Beck’s generates a lot of agronomic information. The Agronomy Resources Library is an index of our PFR Reports, blog postings, ASK PFR, white papers and webinars by crop and topic. This page will be regularly updated to include the latest from the Beck’s team.
Definitions: Videos are submitted from our team in the field, demonstrating real world challenges and providing agronomic insights. PFR Reports detail what we see in PFR studies throughout the season. Webinars are long-format agronomic deep dives, typically 45 min-1 hour. ASK PFR videos are in response to real-time questions submitted from farmers. (Submit your questions by using the hashtag #ASKPFR on social media). White papers are printable pdf resources with good overview information on agronomic phenomena. Blogs are agronomic deep dives written as articles.
Title
Specific Topic
Crop/Category
Blog: Alfalfa Winterkill
Management
Alfalfa
CropTalk: Beck's Fills the Bunks
Agronomy Brief: Anthracnose in Corn
Disease
Corn
Agronomy Brief: Corn Foliar Disease
Agronomy Brief: Crown Rot
Agronomy Brief: Ear Drop
Agronomy Brief: Ear Mold Identification
Agronomy Brief: Seedling Disease
Agronomy Brief: Stalk Rot in Corn
Agronomy Brief: Tar Spot in Corn
Croptalk: Tar Spot, Soybean Gall Midge and Red Banded Stink Bugs
Video: Crown Rot and Late Season Corn Standability
Video: Ear Mold in Corn
Video: PMD and Stalk Quality
Video: Southern Rust vs. Common Rust
Video: Drought Stress on Corn
Drought
Video: Assessing Flood Damaged Corn
Flood
Video: Corn Frost Injury
Frost
Agronomy Brief:Fungicides in Corn
Fungicide
PFR Report: Fungicide Placement
PFR Update: Fungicide Application and Scouting
Video: Corn Fungicide Timing and Scouting
Video: Fungicide Application Scouting
Video: Fungicide Use in Corn
Video: Timing and Scouting
Video: Assessing Corn Hail Damage
Hail Damage
Video: Evaluating Hail Damage***
PFR Report: Population and Row Width Study
Harvest
Video: Harvest Priorities
Blog: Pre-Emerge Herbicide
Herbicide
Blog: Terminating a Failed Corn Crop
Video: Herbicide Injury Diagnosis in Corn
Video: Post Herbicide Labels
Agronomy Brief: Insecticides
Insecticide
CropTalk: A Harvest Plan Will Make the Difference
Agronomy Brief: Delayed Planting
Agronomy Brief: Early Corn Development
Agronomy Brief: Early Season Flooding
Agronomy Brief: Early Season Frost Damage
Agronomy Brief: Greensnap
Agronomy Brief: Harvesting Corn for Silage
Agronomy Brief: Harvesting Down Corn
Agronomy Brief: Late Planted Corn
Agronomy Brief: Planting into Cold Soils
Agronomy Brief: Rapid Growth Syndrome
Agronomy Brief: Residue Management
Agronomy Brief: Seed Size and Crop Establishment
Agronomy Brief: Seed Treatments
Agronomy Brief: Short Husking
Agronomy Brief: Storing Damaged Grain
Agronomy Brief: Yield Components of Corn
Blog: Early Season Emergence
Blog: Early Season Frost Damage
CropTalk: Corn Quality Traits
CropTalk: Don't Turn a Delayed Planting into a Late Harvest
CropTalk: Learning through the Struggle
CropTalk: PFR Proven Success Strategies: Corn
CropTalk: Qrome Questions with Dr. Cavanaugh
CropTalk: The Rotation: Corn Following Corn
PFR Report: Corn Fungicide Applications
PFR Report: Sugar Applications In Furrow and Foliar
Video: Checking Corn Pollination
Video: Floppy Corn Syndrome
Agronomy Brief: Corn Foliar Nutrition
Nutrition
Agronomy Brief: Economic Optimum Nitrogen Rate
Agronomy Brief: Potassium and Corn Development
Agronomy Brief: Purple Corn
Agronomy Brief: Sulfur Deficiencies in Corn
Agronomy Brief: Tissue Testing
Ask PFR: Heavy Rain and Nitrogen Rate and Timing
Blog: Sulfur Nutrition and Deficiency
PFR Report: Nitrogen Timing X Hybrid
PFR Report: Sidedressing Nitrogen
Video: N Timing and Placement
Video: Nutrient Deficiency
Video: Starter Fertilizer
Video: Sulfur Deficiency
Video: Tissue Testing
Video: Tissue Testing in Corn and Soybeans
Video: Yellow Streaking in Corn
Webinar: Replant and Delayed Planting Decisions
Agronomy Brief: Corn Rootworm
Pest
Agronomy Brief: European Corn Borer
Agronomy Brief: Growing Non-GMO Corn in Corn Rootworm Areas
Ask PFR: Nematode Sampling
Blog: White Grubs, Fall Armyworm, Slugs
Video: Black Cutworm Pressure
Ask PFR: Wet Conditions at planting
Planting
Blog & Video: Delayed Planting
Blog & Video: Delayed Planting (West)
Blog: Planting Considerations
PFR Report: Impact of Corn Planting Conditions
PFR Report: Planting Date Study
PFR Report: Population and Row Width
PFR Report: Sugar In-Furrow
Video: Delayed Germination/Seed Survival
Video: Emergence and Early Season Performance
Video: Planting into Suboptimal Conditions
PFR Report: Late Season Scouting
Systems
Video: Identifying Pigweed
Weeds
Ask PFR: Cover Crops and Interseeding
Cover Crops
Ask PFR: Establishing Cover Crops
Agronomy Brief: Planter Preparations
Planter
Equipment
Blog: Planter Preparations
CropTalk: Picking Up The Planting Pace
CropTalk: Planter Performance and Preparation
PFR Report: 2x2x2
PFR Report: Capstan Seed Squirter
PFR Report: Closing Wheels
PFR Report: Conceal Starter Fertilizer System
PFR Report: Introducing the Multi-Row Width, Multi-Hybrid Planter
PFR Report: Martin-Till Dual UMO
PFR Report: Multi-Row Width, Multi-Hybrid Planter
PFR Report: STP Disc Openers
PFR Report: Yetter Dual 2968 2x2x2
PFR Report: Yetter Farm Equipment Row Cleaners
Video: FurrowJet
Video: Planting under film
Video: Prepping for Planting
Video: Yetter 2984 Strip Freshener
Video: Yetter Dual 2x2x2
CropTalk: Population Estimations Using Sentera
CropTalk: Space Age Spatial Soil Sampling
PFR Report: Precision Planting's SmartDepth
PFR Report: Weed Zapper
Video: NutriMax Dual Delivery System
PFR Report: Mandako Land Roller
PFR Report Video: Strip-Till
Tillage
Agronomy Brief: Fallow Syndrome
Fallow
Audio APP: Prevent Plant Discussion
CropTalk: Unplanted Acres: Using the Silent Partners in your Soil
CropTalk: Nutrient Removal Rates Revisited
Fertilizer
CropTalk: pH and Liming Soils
Agronomy Brief: Spring Anhydrous Ammonia Risks
CropTalk: Base Saturation: An Important Soil Fertility Calculation
CropTalk: Foliar Nutrition: Targeted or Blanket Applications
CropTalk: Spring Anhydrous
CropTalk: Spring Applied Nitrogen
PFR Report: Flexibility in Your Nitrogen Program
CropTalk: Fungicides and their MOAs
Fungicides
Herbicides
CropTalk: Is Weed Control Simple Again?
Agronomy Brief: Spring Burndown
CropTalk: Common Herbicide Symptomology on Soybeans
CropTalk: Spring Burndown
CropTalk: Tank Mix Glufosinate and Glyphosate
PFR Report Video: Weed Management with Tillage
PFR Report: In Season Residual Herbicides
PFR Report: Over-Reliance on Group 14 and 15 Herbicides
PFR Report: Spring Burndown
PFR Report: Winter Herbicide Clinic
Blog: Fall vs. Spring Burndown in Soybeans
Blog: Glyphosate Tolerant vs. LibertyLink Systems
Blog: Managing Marestail
Blog: Managing Weeds in Varying Herbicide Platforms
Blog: Residual Herbicides and Influence on Soybean Yields
Blog: The Efficacy of Herbicide Modes of Action
PFR Report: Late Spring Herbicide Decisions
PFR Report: Water Conditioning Study
CropTalk: Exploring Water Management through PFR
Irrigation
CropTalk: Managing Irrigation with VRI and Moisture Probes
Video: Water Management
Nematodes
Agronomy Brief: Nitrogen Timing and Placement
Agronomy Brief: Frogeye Leafspot
Soybean
Agronomy Brief: Sudden Death Syndrome
Agronomy Brief: White Mold
PFR Report: Late-season SDS Observations
Video: Phytopthora Root Rot vs. Fusarium Wilt
Video: Soybean Pythium Seedling Blight
Video: Sudden Death Syndrome Symptoms
PFR Report: Row width and population
Double Crop
Video: Residual Herbicides for Use in Double Crop
Agronomy Brief: Soybean Fungicide & Foliar Mn Application
PFR Report: Fungicide Application on Soybeans
Video: Fungicide Application Timing
Ask PFR: Effects of Heavy Rain on Residual Herbicides
Video: PPO Injury On Soybeans
Video: Soybean Herbicide Damage
Video: The Time of Day Effect with RoundUp Ready 2 Xtend
Crop Talk: For Soybean Threats, the Best Defense is a Good Offense
Agronomy Brief: Early Season Compaction and Nodulation
Agronomy Brief: Early Soybean Growth and Development
Agronomy Brief: Late Season Soybean Growth and Development
Agronomy Brief: Seed Quality in Soybeans
Agronomy Brief: Soybean Planting Date and Population
Blog: Soybean Post Spray Reminders
Blog: Soybean Seeding Rate Considerations for Delayed Planting
CropTalk: Choices in Seed Treatments
CropTalk: PFR Proven Success Strategies: Soybeans
CropTalk: Sorting Out Soybean Replant
CropTalk: Soybean PFR Proven Products for 2019
CropTalk: The Dry Down on Soybeans
PFR Report: Sequential Fungicide Applications on Soybeans
Video: 15 Inch Soybean Population Test
Video: Growth Staging, Fungicides and Insecticides
Video: Late Season Soybean Disease: Discoloration & Seed Quality
Agronomy Brief: Iron Deficiency Chlorosis (IDC)
Agronomy Brief: Soybean Foliar Nutrition
Webinar: Sulfur on Soybeans
Blog: Sulfur
Video: Furrow Jet
Agronomy Brief: Dectes Stem Borer
Agronomy Brief: Soybean Gall Midge
Video: Dectes Stem Borer
Video: Insecticide and Fungicide Applications on Soybeans
Video: Soybean Slug Damage
Video: The Truth About Stink Bugs
Ask PFR: Mitigating Stress on Late Planted Soybeans
Blog: Late Planting
CropTalk: Soybean Singulation
PFR Report: Planting Depth
PFR Report: Seeding Rate
Video: Emergence & ILeVO Effects
Video: Emergence and Field Conditions
CropTalk: Soybean Technology for the Roaring '20s
PFR Report: Landroller
Blog: Escalate Performance in Warmer Soil Temperatures
Escalate
Agronomy Brief: Fertilizer Recommendations in Response to Crop Price
Agronomy Brief: Managing Prevent Plant Acres
Blog: 10 Reasons to Stick to your Planting Plan
Blog: Delayed Planting: Stick to the Plan
CropTalk: Changing Weather Patterns- The New "Normal"
CropTalk: Rescue Tillage for the Win
PFR Report: Delayed Planting
PFR Report: The Benefits of Soil Sampling
PFR Report: The Grit & Grain of 2019- Delayed Planting
CropTalk: 2018 PFR Proven
Video: 400 Bushel Plot
400 Bushel Plot
PFR Report: Drainage Tile Installation
Drainage
PFR Report: Tillage Study
Video: Weed identification and Compaction Issues
Agronomy Brief: Spring Freeze Damage to Winter Wheat
Wheat
Agronomy Brief: Springtime Management of Winter Wheat
PFR Report: PFR Proven PGR and Fungicide Products on Wheat
PFR Report: Planting Date, Row-Width and Population on Wheat
Video: PFR Proven Fungicides in Wheat
Video: Wheat tissue sampling and spring fertilizer
Blog: Freeze Damage in Wheat
PFR Report: Planting Date, Population and Row Width
PFR Report: Wheat Row Width Study
Video: Early Wheat Management
Video: Freeze Damage in Wheat
Video: High-Yield Wheat Attempt
Video: Planting Date
Video: Preventing Fusarium Head Scab In Your Wheat
Video: Scouting Your Wheat Crop Development
Video: Wheat Crop Management
PFR Report: What's New in the World of Wheat?