No-Till Bean Planter Conversion I
Old Meets new. This is how we put the new technology to work on older equipment. I will be posting a few videos on this [...]
Nitrogen on Winter Wheat II
This morning we had excellent weather for Nitrogen application on the Winter Wheat. We had enough frost to carry the Sprayer. All the snow but a trace was gone. The [...]
Nitrogen on Winter Wheat
This week the weather looks like it is going to give us a few morning opportunities to apply Nitrogen to our winter wheat [...]
Variable Rate Planting Corn
Normalized Yield Map Last week I decided it was finally time to start using our VARIABLE RATE SEED DRIVE on our corn planter for more [...]
Slug Damage in Fall Corn
Today I attended the Innovative farmers conference in London Ontario. There were some excellent speakers from around the world speaking about their preferred production methods. One [...]
Relay Crop Soybeans for 2011
In theory you could no-till your soys into the wheat when it is just starting to elongate. The "Intellicoat" would delay the beans to germinate just as the wheat is dying off.
Organic Tomatoes Possible?
For the past four years we have been growing 1000 Tomato Plants to supply our Farmer's Market. This was the first time we grew tomatoes other than a [...]
FarmSmart
I had the pleasure of participating in an agricultural conference called "FarmSmart" held at the University of Guelph. I was in a discussion panel with two of [...]
Optimistic about Optimize For Soybeans
The LCO in Optimize® works independently of moisture and temperature and has shown field observations to speed this process up by three weeks.
Surfire Ag Systems a Good Option for Planter Liquid Kit
Application mapping; we need to be able to make an accurate application map so that we never loose track of exactly what rates are where in the field when we are doing trials. This is essential for getting confidence in evaluation of our yield data.