Harvest season is upon us

The start of the harvest season has or will arrive at different parts of the state already. After one of the weirder growing seasons that was a mixture of extremes few people have a good handle on what to expect when they begin running the combines. The very wet April...

Field Day Invitation

You won’t want to miss the “Show Me the Money” Field Day sponsored by Central Iowa Agronomy & Supply, Verdesian Life Sciences and BioDyne Midwest. You asked to see the results and this field day is your chance to do just that. In some way we are all from the “Show...

Healthy crops take a systems approach

Here we are now in mid September and harvest of our two major crops has begun in places. It has been a very strange year and growing season. In our immediate area the weather patterns have consisted of receiving 1.2 to 1.5 inches of rain every six weeks. Getting any...

Pre-harvest notes and observations

Isn’t it nice to live in the Midwest where we only have blizzards and tornados? Wow, two majorwithin two weeks hitting the southern coast of the U.S. It made for great television viewing and press coverage during that time, with the cost of clean up, repair, recovery...

Scout fields for stalk quality and soybean disease

September has arrived and in a few weeks the fall harvest season will begin. A very safe bet is that there will be a lot few loads of grain coming out of each field in the southwest three fourth of the state. This is in spite of the seemingly official claims that we...