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
Agronomy Blog: Alfalfa Winterkill
Management
Alfalfa
CropTalk: Alfalfa Planting Considerations and Assessing Stands
CropTalk: Beck's Fills the Bunks
Agronomy Video: Think Twice Before Cutting Alfalfa This Fall
PFR Report Video: 400 Bushel Plot
400 Bushel Plot
Corn
Agronomy Brief: Anthracnose in Corn
Disease
Agronomy Video: Crazy Top in Corn - Early Signs
Agronomy Brief: Corn Foliar Disease
Agronomy Brief: Crown Rot
Agronomy Video: Crown Rot
Agronomy Video: Crown Rot and Late Season Corn Standability
Agronomy Video: Crown Rot - Proactive Management
Agronomy Brief: Ear Drop
Agronomy Brief: Ear Mold Identification
Agronomy Video: Ear Mold in Corn
Agronomy Video: Holcus Spot
Agronomy Video: Late-Season Disease and Stalk Integrity
Agronomy Video: PMD and Stalk Quality
Agronomy Brief: Seedling Disease
Agronomy Video: Southern Rust vs. Common Rust
Agronomy Brief: Stalk Rot in Corn
Agronomy Brief: Tar Spot in Corn
Agronomy Video: Tar Spot In Corn
CropTalk: Tar Spot, Soybean Gall Midge and Red Banded Stink Bugs
Agronomy Video: Drought Stress on Corn
Drought
Agronomy Video: Assessing Flood Damaged Corn
Flooding
Agronomy Brief: Early Season Flooding
Agronony Video: Cold Snap Aftermath
Frost
Agronomy Video: Corn Frost Injury
Agronomy Brief: Early Season Frost Damage
Agronomy Blog: Early Season Frost Damage
PFR Report Video: Frost Study - Preharvest Update
PFR Report Video: Combating Disease with Fungicide Applications
Fungicide
PFR Report Blog: Corn Fungicide Applications
Agronomy Video: Fungicide Application Scouting
Agronomy Brief: Fungicides in Corn
PFR Report Video: Fungicide Placement
PFR Report Video: Fungicide Study - Carrier Rate Update on Corn
Agronomy Video: Fungicide Timing - PFR Book Findings
Agronomy Video: Fungicide Timing and Scouting
Agronomy Video: Fungicide Use in Corn
Agronomy Video: Making an Informed Fungicide Decision and Quality Application
Agronomy Video: Nitrogen Rate - Fungicide Response PFR Study Update
PFR Insight Meetings Deep Dive: Profitable Fungicide Pass
Agronomy Video: Assessing Corn Hail Damage
Hail Damage
Agronomy Video: Evaluating Hail Damage
Agronomy Brief: Hail Damage
CropTalk: Don't Turn a Delayed Planting into a Late Harvest
Harvest
CropTalk: A Harvest Plan Will Make the Difference
Agronomy Brief: Harvesting Corn for Silage
PFR Report Video: Harvesting Derecho-damaged Down Corn
Agronomy Brief: Harvesting Down Corn
Agronomy Video: Harvest Priorities
PFR Report Video: Population and Row Width Study Harvest
Agronomy Brief: Residue Management
Agronomy Video: Herbicide Injury Diagnosis in Corn
Herbicide
Agronomy Video: Post Herbicide Labels
Agronomy Blog: Pre-Emerge Herbicide
Agronomy Blog: Terminating a Failed Corn Crop
Agronomy Brief: Insecticides
Insecticide
CropTalk: Agronomic Analysis - Insight Meetings and the PFR Book
Agronomy Video: Continuous Corn Management
CropTalk: Corn Quality Traits
Agronomy Video: Corn Termination
Agronomy Brief: Early Corn Development
Agronomy Blog: Early Season Emergence
Agronomy Video: Fall Observations to Improve ROI
CropTalk: Fill the Bunks
Agronomy Video: Floppy Corn Syndrome
Agronomy Brief: Green Snap
Agronomy Video: Green Snap in Corn
PFR Insight Meetings Deep Dive: In-Season Decision-Making
Agronomy Brief: Late Planted Corn
PFR Report Blog: Late Season Scouting
CropTalk: Learning through the Struggle
CropTalk: PFR Proven - 2018
CropTalk: PFR Proven - 2020
CropTalk: PFR Proven Success Strategies: Corn
Agronomy Video: Pollination Assessment on Corn
CropTalk: Pollination Assessment on Corn: What Can We Learn?
Agronomy Video: Pollination Check on Corn
CropTalk: Putting PFR into Practice, Part 1
CropTalk: Putting PFR into Practice, Part 2
CropTalk: Qrome Questions with Dr. Cavanaugh
Agronomy Brief: Rapid Growth Syndrome
Agronomy Video: Rapid Growth Syndrome and Purple Corn
CropTalk: The Rotation: Corn Following Corn
Agronomy Brief: Seed Size and Crop Establishment
Agronomy Brief: Seed Treatments
Agronomy Brief: Short Husking
Agronomy Brief: Storing Damaged Grain
CropTalk: Talking PFR, Part 1
CropTalk: Talking PFR, Part 2
Agronomy Brief: Yield Components of Corn
CropTalk: Are Your Hybrids Hungry?
Nutrition
Agronomy Brief: Foliar Nutrition - Corn
CropTalk: "N" Your Toolbox
Agronomy Video: Nitrogen Application Study
PFR Report Blog: Nitrogen Fixation - More Corn, Less Fertilizer
CropTalk: Nitrogen - Measuring Early-Season
PFR Report Video: Nitrogen Systems Study Preharvest Update on Corn
PFR Insight Meetings Deep Dive: Microbial Nitrogen Products
Agronomy Video: Nitrogen Impact to Plant Health
PFR Insight Meetings Deep Dive: Nitrogen Rate x Population
Ask PFR Video: Nitrogen Rate and Timing with Impact of Heavy Rain
PFR Report Video: Nitrogen Timing X Hybrid
Agronomy Brief: Nitrogen Timing and Placement
CropTalk: Nitrogen Utilization + New Techonology
Agronomy Video: Nitrogen Use Efficiency Maximization
Agronomy Brief: Nitrogen Rate - Economic Optimum
Agronomy Video: Nutrient Deficiency
Agronomy Brief: Potassium and Corn Development
Agronomy Brief: Purple Corn
PFR Report Blog: Sidedress Application Management
PFR Report Video: Sidedressing Nitrogen
CropTalk: Sidedress Nitrogen on Early Corn
Agronomy Brief: Starter Fertilizer Use in Corn
Agronomy Video: Starter Timing Study
Agronomy Brief: Sulfur Deficiencies in Corn
Agronomy Video: Sulfur Deficiency
Agronomy Blog: Sulfur Nutrition and Deficiency
PFR Report Blog: Sugar Applications In Furrow and Foliar
PFR Report Video: Sugar In-Furrow
Agronomy Brief: Tissue Testing
Agronomy Video: Tissue Testing
Agronomy Video: Tissue Testing in Corn and Soybeans
Agronomy Video: Yellow Streaking in Corn
Agronomy Brief: Black Cutworm
Pest
Agronomy Video: Black Cutworm Pressure
CropTalk: Corn Blotch Leafminer Alert
Agronomy Brief: Corn Rootworm
Agronomy Video: Corn Rootworm Damage - Risk Assessment
CropTalk: Corn Rootworm: Reflections for Solutions
Agronomy Video: Corn Rootworm Sticky Traps
Agronomy Brief: Early Season Corn Pests
Agronomy Brief: European Corn Borer
Agronomy Brief: Growing Non-GMO Corn in Corn Rootworm Areas
CropTalk: Red Banded Stink Bugs, Tar Spot, Soybean Gall Midge
Agronomy Brief: Western Bean Cutworm
Agronomy Blog: White Grubs, Fall Armyworm, & Slugs
Agronomy Blog: 10 Reasons to Stick to your Planting Plan
Planting
ASK PFR: Delayed Germination/Seed Survival
Agronomy Brief: Delayed Planting
Agronomy Blog & Video: Delayed Planting
Agronomy Blog & Video: Delayed Planting (West)
Agronomy Blog: Delayed Planting: Stick to the Plan
Agronomy Video: Emergence and Early Season Performance
PFR Report Video: Impact of Corn Planting Conditions
Agronomy Blog: Planting Considerations
Agronomy Video: Planting Date & Replant Studies - PFR Book Findings
PFR Report Video: Planting Date Study
Agronomy Brief: Planting into Cold Soils
Agronomy Video: Planting into Suboptimal Conditions
PFR Report Video: Population and Row Width
Webinar: Replant and Delayed Planting Decisions
Ask PFR: Wet Conditions at Planting
Agronomy Video: Herbicide Insight Area Update
Cover Crops
Agronomy Video: Cover Crop Decision Tool
Ask PFR: Cover Crop Establishment
Ask PFR: Cover Crops and Interseeding
CropTalk: Cover Crop Management for Success
Agronomy Brief: Cover Crop Termination
CropTalk: Cover Crop Termination Methods
Agronomy Video: Soybean Stem Elongation in Cover Crops
PFR Report Video: Ag Drainage Inc. Tile Installation
Drainage
Equipment
PFR Report Video: NutriMax Dual Delivery System
PFR Report Video: 2x2x2 Systems
Planter
Agronomy Video: 2x2x2 System - PFR Book Findings
PFR Report Video: 2x2x2 System - Martin-Till Dual UMO
PFR Report Video: 2x2x2 System - Precision Planting® Conceal
PFR Report Video: 2x2x2 System - Yetter Dual 2968
PFR Report Video: 2x2x2 System - Yetter Dual 2968 Update
PFR Report Video: 2x2x2 Systems - Preharvest Update
PFR Report Video: Closing Wheels
PFR Report Blog: (A Tail on) Closing Wheels
PFR Report Video: Closing Wheel Study
PFR Report Video: Closing Wheel & SpeedTube® High Speed Planting Studies
PFR Report Video: Closing Wheel Systems Study - Precision Planting FurrowForce®
PFR Report Video: Closing Wheel Study - FurrowForce® - Update
PFR Report Blog: Disc Openers - Prescription Tillage Technology - Sabre Tooth Planter (STP)
PFR Report Video: Disc Opener Study - Prescription Tillage Technology’s STP Preharvest Update
PFR Report Video: Disc Openers - STP
PFR Report Video: Downforce - Precision Planting® DeltaForce® Study Results
PFR Report Video: FurrowJet™ - Precision Planting®
PFR Report Video: Corn High Speed Planting Preparation
PFR Report Video: Indexing Your Planter
PFR Report Video: Multi-Row Width, Multi-Hybrid Planter
PFR Report Video: Multi-Row Width, Multi-Hybrid Planter Introduction
PFR Report Video: Multi-Row Width, Multi-Hybrid Planter Research
CropTalk: Perfecting the Planter with PFR
PFR Insight Meetings Deep Dive: Planter Attachments
PFR Report Video: Planter Maintenance and Upgrades
CropTalk: Planter Performance and Preparation
Agronomy Blog: Planter Preparations
Agronomy Brief: Planter Preparations
PFR Report Video: Planting Under Film
PFR Report Video: Prepping for Planting
Agronomy Video: Row Cleaners
PFR Report Video: Row Cleaners
PFR Report Video: Row Cleaners - Yetter Farm Equipment 2940 Air Adjust™
PFR Report Video: SmartDepth from Precision Planting®
PFR Report Video: Strip Freshener - Yetter 2984
PFR Report: Mandako Land Roller
Systems
Agronomy Brief: Fallow Syndrome
Fallow
PFR Report Video: Fallow Syndrome Study - New Study
Agronomy Brief: Managing Prevent Plant Acres
Audio APP: Prevent Plant Discussion
CropTalk: Unplanted Acres: Using the Silent Partners in your Soil
PFR Report Blog: Flexibility in Your Nitrogen Program
Fertilizer
CropTalk: Manure Management: The Scoop on Poop
CropTalk: Nutrient Removal Rates Revisited
Agronomy Video: Quantifying Microbial Activity (Fallow Syndrome)
PFR Report: Anhydrous Ammonia
CropTalk: Anhydrous Ammonia Applications in the Spring
Agronomy Brief: Anhydrous Ammonia Application Risks in the Spring
PFR Report Video: Anhydrous Ammonia Best Practices
CropTalk: Base Saturation: An Important Soil Fertility Calculation
PFR Insight Meetings Deep Dive: Broadcast vs. Strip-Till Banding
CropTalk: Deep Placement of Fertilizer
Agronomy Brief: Fertilizer Recommendations in Response to Crop Price
CropTalk: Foliar Nutrition: Targeted or Blanket Applications
PFR Report Blog: Nitrogen Program Flexibility
CropTalk: Nitrogen - Spring Applied
PFR Report Video: Nutrient Management Study: Broadcast vs. Banded
CropTalk: pH and Liming Soils
CropTalk: Fungicides and their MOAs
Fungicides
CropTalk: New Players in Fungicides
CropTalk: Rev up Your Soybean Protection
CropTalk: Weather Analysis Tools for Fungicide Decisions
Agronomy Blog: Delayed Planting Dicamba Management
Herbicides
CropTalk: Is Weed Control Simple Again?
CropTalk: Marestail Burndown
PFR Report Video: Marestail Burndown
CropTalk: A New Spin on Pre-Emerge Herbicides
PFR Insight Meetings Deep Dive: Weed Management Solutions
CropTalk: Common Herbicide Symptomology on Soybeans
PFR Report Blog: The Efficacy of Herbicide Modes of Action
PFR Report Blog: Glyphosate Tolerant vs. LibertyLink Systems
PFR Report Video: Herbicide Management
PFR Report Video: In Season Residual Herbicides
PFR Report Video: Late Spring Herbicide Decisions
PFR Report Blog: Managing Marestail
PFR Report Blog: Managing Weeds in Varying Herbicide Platforms
PFR Report Video: Over-Reliance on Group 14 and 15 Herbicides
PFR Report Blog: Residual Herbicides and Influence on Soybean Yields
Agronomy Brief: Spring Burndown
CropTalk: Spring Burndown
PFR Report Video: Spring Burndown
PFR Report Blog: Spring Burndown vs. Fall Burndown in Soybeans
CropTalk: Tank Mix Glufosinate and Glyphosate
PFR Report Video: Water Conditioning Study
CropTalk: A Win for Weed Control
PFR Report Video: Winter Herbicide Clinic
CropTalk: Exploring Water Management through PFR
Irrigation
CropTalk: Managing Irrigation with VRI and Moisture Probes
Agronomy Video: Water Management Benefits
Ask PFR: Nematode Sampling
Nematodes
CropTalk: Nematodes in Corn Production
PFR Report Video: TH Fabrication Row Crop Cultivator
Organic Crops
PFR Report Video: New Focus on Organic Research
CropTalk: Organic Growth and PFR
CropTalk: Stop Guessing, Start Predicting
Soil Health
CropTalk: Space Age Spatial Soil Sampling
PFR Report: The Benefits of Soil Sampling
CropTalk: Can Fungi Actually Be a Good Thing?
CropTalk: Cycling Nutrients With the Help of Microbes
Agronomy Video: Soil Fertility - Soil Sampling
PFR Report Video: Soil Microbial Analysis in PFR Plots
CropTalk: Charcoal Rot of Soybeans
Soybean
Agronomy Brief: Frogeye Leafspot
Agronomy Video: Frogeye Leaf Spot in Wisconsin
Agronomy Video: Late Season Soybean Disease: Discoloration & Seed Quality
Agronomy Video: Phytopthora Root Rot vs. Fusarium Wilt
Agronomy Video: Pythium Seedling Blight of Soybeans
Agronomy Brief: Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS)
Agronomy Video: Sudden Death Syndrome Symptoms
PFR Report Video: SDS Observations - Late-Season
CropTalk: Target Spot: Hitting Too Close to Home?
Agronomy Brief: White Mold
Agronomy Video: Residual Herbicides for Use in Double Crop Soybeans
Double Crop
PFR Report Video: Row Width & Population in Double Crop Soybeans
Agronomy Video: Assessing Frost Injury on Late-Planted Soybeans
Agronomy Video: Fatal Frost Damage in Soybeans
PFR Report Video: Fungicide Application on Soybeans
Agronomy Video: Fungicide Application Timing
Agronomy Video: Growth Staging, Fungicides and Insecticides
PFR Report Blog: Sequential Fungicide Applications on Soybeans
Agronomy Brief: Soybean Fungicide & Foliar Mn Application
CropTalk: The Dry Down on Soybeans
Ask PFR: Effects of Heavy Rain on Residual Herbicides
PFR Report: Pre-Emergent Herbicide Application Timing
Herbicide Brief: Power in the Pre
Agronomy Video: PPO Injury On Soybeans
Agronomy Video: Soybean Herbicide Damage
Agronomy Video: The Time of Day Effect with RoundUp Ready 2 Xtend
Agronomy Video: 15 Inch Soybean Population Test
CropTalk: Choices in Seed Treatments
Agronomy Brief: Early Season Compaction and Nodulation
Agronomy Brief: Early Soybean Growth and Development
Agronomy Brief: Late Season Soybean Growth and Development
Agronomy Brief: Managing Threats to Early Planted Soybeans
CropTalk: PFR Proven Products for Soybeans in 2019
CropTalk: PFR Proven Success Strategies: Soybeans
Agronomy Blog: Post Spray Reminders on Soybeans
Agronomy Brief: Seed Quality in Soybeans
Crop Talk: For Soybean Threats, the Best Defense is a Good Offense
Agronomy Brief: Soybean Yield Components
Agronomy Video: Why Are My Soybeans Splitting?
Agronomy Brief: Foliar Nutrition on Soybeans
Agronomy Brief: Iron Deficiency Chlorosis (IDC)
Agronomy Video: Potassium and Soybean Yields
Blog: Sulfur Nutrition and Deficiency
Webinar: Sulfur on Soybeans
Agronomy Video: Tissue Testing in Soybeans and Corn
Agronomy Brief: Dectes Stem Borer
Agronomy Video: Dectes Stem Borer
Agronomy Brief: Early Season Soybean Pests
Agronomy Video: Insecticide and Fungicide Applications on Soybeans
Agronomy Brief: Soybean Aphids
Agronomy Brief: Soybean Cyst Nematode (SCN)
Agronomy Brief: Soybean Gall Midge
Agronomy Video: Soybean Slug Damage
Croptalk: Tar Spot, Soybean Gall Midge and Red Banded Stink Bugs
Agronomy Video: Stink Bugs - The Truth
Agronomy Blog: Delayed Planting - Soybean Seeding Rate Considerations
Agronomy Video: Emergence & Field Conditions
Agronomy Video: Emergence & ILeVO Effects
Agronomy Blog: Late Planting Considerations
Ask PFR: Mitigating Stress on Late Planted Soybeans
Agronomy Brief: Planting Date and Population
PFR Report Video: Planting Depth
PFR Report Video: Replant Threshold Study Update on Soybeans
Soybeans
PFR Report Video: Seeding Rate
CropTalk: Sorting Out Soybean Replant
CropTalk: Soybean Singulation
CropTalk: Soybean Technology for the Roaring '20s
CropTalk: 2021 Escalate® Seed Treatment Update
Escalate
Seed Treatment
Agronomy Blog: Escalate® Performance in Warmer Soil Temperatures
CropTalk: Population Estimations Using Sentera
Drones/UAV
Technology
CropTalk: Stand Counts and Spray Applications
PFR Insight Meetings Deep Dive: Agronomy Integration with FARMserver®
FARMserver®
PFR Report Video: Importing FARMserver Data into Precision Planting®'s 20/20 Monitor
FARMserver
CropTalk: Turn Your Data Into Dollars
CropTalk: Yield Data: More Than Just a Pretty Map
PFR Report Video: Horsch Joker RT40 Live Demonstration
Tillage
PFR Report Video: Strip-Till
CropTalk: Rescue Tillage for the Win
PFR Report Video: Tillage Study
CropTalk: Changing Weather Patterns- The New "Normal"
Weather
PFR Report Blog: The Grit & Grain of Delayed Planting
Agronomy Video: Weathering the Storms
PFR Report Video: Weed Zapper
Weeds
Agronomy Video: Identifying Pigweed
Identification
Agronomy Video: Weed Identification and Compaction Issues
Weed Management Brief: Alternative Post-Emerge Herbicide Options
Weed Management Brief: Alternative Weed Management Solutions - Cover Crops/Termination
Weed Management Brief: Alternative Weed Management Solutions - Row Width
Weed Management Brief: Alternative Weed Management Solutions - Tillage
Weed Management Brief: Carrier Rate - Liberty® + Glyphosate
Weed Management Brief: Carrier Rate: Enlist™
Weed Management Brief: Enlist™ - Post-Emergence
Weed Management Brief: Enlist™ Weed Control System
Weed Management Brief: Importance of AMS with Liberty® and Glyphosate Applications
Weed Management Brief: Influence of Weed Size on Liberty® Applications
Weed Management Brief: Liberty® and Time of Day
Weed Management Brief: Marestail Burndown
Weed Management Brief: Non-GMO Control Options
Weed Management Brief: Power in the Pre™
Weed Management Brief: Power of In-Season Residuals
Weed Management Brief: Winter Annual ID and Weed Control
PFR Report Video: Weed Management with Tillage
Agronomy Brief: Fusarium Head Blight (Head Scab) in Wheat
Wheat
Agronomy Video: Preventing Fusarium Head Scab In Your Wheat
Agronomy Video: Wheat tissue sampling and spring fertilizer
Agronomy Blog: Freeze Damage in Wheat
Agronomy Video: Freeze Damage in Wheat
Agronomy Video: Scouting Wheat for Freeze Damage
Agronomy Brief: Spring Freeze Damage to Winter Wheat
PFR Report Video: PFR Proven PGR and Fungicide Products on Wheat
PFR Report Video: Wheat Fungicide Study
Agronomy Video: Early Wheat Management
Agronomy Video: High-Yield Wheat Attempt
CropTalk: PFR Proven™ Products and Practices - Wheat
Agronomy Video: Scouting Your Wheat Crop Development
Agronomy Brief: Springtime Management of Winter Wheat
PFR Report Blog: What's New in the World of Wheat?
Agronomy Video: Wheat Crop Management
Agronomy Video: Planting Date
PFR Report Video: Planting Date, Row-Width, and Population on Wheat
PFR Report Video: Wheat Row Width Study