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How Dry Conditions Drive #Plant25 Decisions

There’s an old saying in farming: “Plant in dust, your bins will bust”. The premise is that dry soils will encourage faster, deeper root growth early in the season, which will lead to more robust root systems and stronger plants throughout the growing season. Conversely, crops planted in ideal moisture conditions may become lazy and their roots remain shallow, causing potential problems later in the season when summer heat and dry conditions often arise. If that old adage is true, then Midwest farmers would be looking at a bumper crop in 2025. Then again, there’s dry, then there’s very dry.

By |2025-03-24T15:45:29-07:00March 24th, 2025|Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on How Dry Conditions Drive #Plant25 Decisions

National Ag Day: Celebrating the Trusted Voices of Agriculture

Trust in the mass media has eroded to new lows. A recent Gallup poll reveals that 69% of Americans have very little to no trust in the media. Over the past five decades, the number of people who place a great deal/fair amount of trust in the media has plummeted 40 points. It’s dropped 12 points in the past five years. Fortunately, this is not the case with agricultural media.

By |2025-03-17T16:01:19-07:00March 17th, 2025|Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on National Ag Day: Celebrating the Trusted Voices of Agriculture

Rooted in Hope: The Unshakable Optimism of Farmers

Rooted in Hope: The Unshakable Optimism of Farmers Farmers are eternal optimists. They have to be. Their entire existence is based on the hope that the seeds they sow in the spring will bear fruit come fall. Last month, farmer sentiment rose another 11 points, based on the Purdue Ag Economy Barometer. It’s now about as high as it’s been in a decade (save for 2020-21, when commodity prices hit record highs).

By |2025-03-10T15:32:06-07:00March 10th, 2025|Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on Rooted in Hope: The Unshakable Optimism of Farmers

Federal Crop Insurance: A Safety Net for Farmers or a Profit Tool?

This Week in Ag #105 - You can’t live without insurance these days. You can’t get a home mortgage without it. Nor can you legally drive without it. And if you’re a corn or soybean grower, you really can’t farm without it. That’s why over 90% of commodity crop acres are insured with Federal Crop Insurance. But FCI is anything but a normal insurance policy.

By |2025-03-04T07:44:32-07:00March 4th, 2025|Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on Federal Crop Insurance: A Safety Net for Farmers or a Profit Tool?

From the Field: Exploring the Impact of Biostimulants in Asia

Last June, I had the privilege of visiting parts of Asia to attend a conference hosted by one of our distributors. The event brought together ag experts, farmers, and researchers from different parts of the world to discuss the future of farming. I was excited to collaborate with them all and little did I know,

By |2025-02-26T12:38:47-07:00February 26th, 2025|Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on From the Field: Exploring the Impact of Biostimulants in Asia

Inconvenient Truths About Farming

This Week In Ag #104 Here’s an inconvenient truth about farming: many farmers live off their equity. When land is your biggest asset and land prices remain strong, so does your balance sheet. This offers lending power. Depending on your situation, it’s very possible to break even, or even lose money in your farming operation

By |2025-02-25T13:34:27-07:00February 25th, 2025|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on Inconvenient Truths About Farming

This Week In Ag #103: Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain?

“There’s got to be a better way.” Those words were expressed to me last week at the World Ag Expo. I had just completed my presentation, “Breathe New Life into Your Soil”, when a nice lady and her husband approached me. She introduced herself as a multi-generational rancher who grows alfalfa and orchard grass for their

By |2025-02-18T11:20:08-07:00February 18th, 2025|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week In Ag #103: Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain?

This Week In Ag #102

All four faces on Mount Rushmore are farmers. Along with being the father of our country, George Washington was a father of regenerative agriculture, implementing intense crop rotation (he grew 60 different crops), cover crop practices, manure management, and grazing from multiple livestock species on his 8,000-acre Mt. Vernon farm. Thomas Jefferson, considering himself “first a

By |2025-02-11T11:20:20-07:00February 11th, 2025|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week In Ag #102

Q&A: Leveraging Biostimulants and Biofertilizers for Sustainable Growth 

Fred Nichols, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Huma®, shared his perspective in a recent article on biostimulants and biofertilizers, published in CropLife and American Fruit Grower Magazine. In the article, Fred discusses the growing role of these products in sustainable agriculture, their benefits, and their impact on crop production. Below are the questions posed

By |2025-03-27T13:30:14-07:00February 6th, 2025|Blog Post, Dry Humates, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on Q&A: Leveraging Biostimulants and Biofertilizers for Sustainable Growth 

This Week In Ag #101

Ask yourself this. Would you really want to be on the other side of a trade dispute with the USA? With all the hysteria over tariffs, that’s a question few seem to be asking. In the global economy, the good ole USA remains the 700-pound gorilla. Boasting a GDP over $25 trillion, the US economy is nearly

By |2025-02-04T16:10:05-07:00February 4th, 2025|Ag News, Blog Post, Plant & Soil|Comments Off on This Week In Ag #101
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