29
Jul
2021
Pat Holloway, Field Agronomist, gives us more information on controlling volunteer corn in soybeans.
Categories: Agronomy
Tags: corn, soybeans, Agronomy
Greg Shepard, Field Agronomist, reminds us all to calibrate our expectations of corn growth using GDUs (Growing Degree Units).
Tags: corn, Agronomy
Mike Hannewald, Field Agronomist, covers soybean replant.
Tags: soybeans, Agronomy
In this latest agronomy update, Mike Blaine, Field Agronomist, is joined by Alec Marxen, Seed Representative, in Bird Island, Minnesota, to discuss corn and soybean early-season growing and application updates.
30
Jun
After planting, the effects of saturated or flooded fields can have a severe and potentially long-lasting impact on corn. The degree of the effect depends on the length of saturated conditions and the growth stage of the crop. Following corn emergence, saturated soils inhibit root growth and nutrient uptake due to a lack of oxygen in the soil. In higher organic matter soils, nitrate-nitrogen (N) rapidly converts to N gases and is lost to the atmosphere. As a result, under persistent saturation, corn roots stop functioning and plants turn yellow as photosynthesis slows.
Categories: Agronomy, Agronomy Talk
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Heavy or persistent rains can lead to saturated soils that can injure or kill a seed, seedling, or growing plant. Saturated soils have an impaired ability to exchange air between the atmosphere and soil. This deprives the seed or plant tissues of oxygen required for respiration.
Often, we focus our understanding of soil biology on invasive, harmful pathogens. However, within soils are numerous beneficial microorganisms vital to crop development. Mycorrhizae fungi make up such a segment of soil biology, critical to the overall supply of water and nutrients to many crops.
These are the aspects of “planting” will help to mitigate cold and saturated soils following planting.
18
May
What is happening in the field with late April planted soybeans?
Tags: soybeans, Agronomy, Agronomy Update
17
In this video, Jon Caspers, Field Agonomist, highlights some of the products in Beck's corn lineup that you could keep in mind when early planting in future years.
Tags: corn, corn hybrids, Agronomy
10
Chad Kalaher, Beck’s Hybrids Field Sales Agronomist, discusses what to consider when deciding on making a fungicide application to wheat.
Tags: Agronomy, Agronomy Update, Wheat, WHEAT FUNGICIDE, wheat yield
7
Interested in learning how current and new Beck’s Hybrids corn products are performing this growing season?
Tags: corn, Agronomy, Agronomy Update, high performing corn
4
Beck’s Practical Farm Research (PFR®) department is testing FMC’s new fungicide Xyway™ in a placement and timing study on corn.
Tags: Practical Farm Research, Agronomy, Agronomy Update, Fungicide, PFR, xyway
3
Mike Blaine, Field Sales Agronomist joins Alec Marxen, Seed Representative, from Minnesota to give a late April update on planting progress in their territory.
Tags: planting, Agronomy, Agronomy Update, Minnesota
Apr
Dale Viktora, Beck’s Hybrids Field Sales Agronomist, gives an update on corn and soybean planting for the second edition of the Beck’s Generation Farmer series.
Tags: Agronomy, Agronomy Update, minnesota farming
28
How do different tillage practices (or lack of) affect the ability of soils to accept water? Luke Schulte, Beck’s Hybrids Field Sales Agronomist, demonstrates differences experienced by a no-till field and a stale seed bed field (that has been touched by a disk ripper and a field cultivator).
Tags: Agronomy, Agronomy Update, soil prep
Camille Lambert, Field Sales Agronomist, introduces a new Practical Farm Research (PFR®) study for 2021, the Planting Conditioning Study – Large Rain Event at the Henderson, Kentucky, facility.
Tags: Practical Farm Research, Agronomy, Agronomy Update, PFR, planting conditions
Chad Kalaher, Beck’s Hybrids Field Sales Agronomist, shares helpful tips regarding early-season soybean management.
Tags: soybeans, Agronomy, Agronomy Update, soybean planting
26
Many farmers in the area have begun planting, and others are getting ready to start. As you head to the field, I wanted to share a few reminders with you to help you fine-tune your planting operations to ensure the best chance of success with your 2021 corn and soybean crops.
19
Should I be planting corn or soybeans? Should I plant corn or soybeans first? These are common questions agronomists, like Chad Kalaher, face each spring.
Tags: Agronomy, Agronomy Update, planting recommendations