Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But there’s another macronutrient that’s hitting the radar with greater frequency as farmers and agronomists pursue higher crop yields. But there’s another macronutrient that’s hitting the radar with greater frequency as farmers and agronomists pursue higher crop yields. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 4, 2024

And what’s the potential yield impact and return on that investment? And what’s the potential yield impact and return on that investment? How do corn hybrids respond to foliar feeding? Those are questions PRIDE Seeds agronomist Stephanie Myslik tackles on this episode of RealAgriculture Corn School.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 29, 2024

Like most crops, a strong, high yielding corn crop depends on what nutrients are in the soil. With corn being a such a big, high-yielding plant, this crop is particularly reliant on a high amount of nitrogen, Read More Like most crops, a strong, high yielding corn crop depends on what nutrients are in the soil.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 13, 2024

What crops can benefit from inoculants and what kind of yield impact can they have? Read More What crops can benefit from inoculants and what kind of yield impact can they have? XiteBio Technologies U.S.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 4, 2024

Research from Purdue University agronomy professor Shaun Casteel indicates that early sulphur applications broadcast pre-plant or right at planting can deliver a soybean yield bump in specific conditions.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 28, 2024

Soil tests are one tool for determining fertilizer needs of a particular field, but several other factors impact the overall productivity of any soil zone, regardless of nutrient level. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JULY 16, 2024

Compacted soils restrict root growth, oxygen, and nutrient and water movement, ultimately restricting yield potential. Compacted soils restrict root growth, oxygen, and nutrient and water movement, ultimately restricting yield potential. What’s. Read More No ruts, no worries, right? What’s. Read More

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West Texas Livestock

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Understanding your soil’s fertility and nutrient composition is critical to informed decision-making. Instead of relying on guesswork, soil testing empowers producers to make targeted fertilizer applications, maximizing their resources and improving forage production.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

For plants to thrive, they require a magic formula: water plus sunlight plus air plus fertilizer. But fertilizers—substances that make soil more fertile—are essential to plant health because not all soils are equally nutritious. In short: Fertilizer is plant food. All plants need fertilization.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2024

There are more than a few seeding, fertilizing, and scouting questions to wade through in this week’s Wheat Pete’s Word podcast, and that’s exactly how host Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson likes it.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 1, 2023

Understanding each field’s soil is key to maximizing yield potential. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soil School, host Bernard Tobin catches up with Zettler at Luymes Farms at Moorefield, Read More Understanding each field’s soil is key to maximizing yield potential.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 1, 2024

Proper staging is important for understanding how to scout and manage corn, whether for timing fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide or fungicide applications. It’s also critical for understanding plant development, and how stressors at different stages can affect results, including yield, cob size, and kernel weight.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and plenty of farmers have lots to be thankful for, including excellent soybean yields and lovely fall weather for wheat planting. Read More It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and plenty of farmers have lots to be thankful for, including excellent soybean yields and lovely fall weather for wheat planting.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 31, 2024

Starter fertilizer can boost early corn growth. However, its influence on boosting corn yields at harvest hinges upon several factors.

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EOS

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Variable rate fertilizer systems offer precise nutrient management for every farm. Let’s explore the technology's benefits for soil health, yield, and profits.

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Yoders have been no-till for 30 years and started incorporating cover crops 10 years ago.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the V10 or V11 development stage, growers typically have a better understanding of how the crop is developing, its yield potential, the growing environment and what the market is willing to pay. Corn growers often apply nitrogen later in the season to gain more control of the crop. There’s also logistics to consider —. Read More

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 23, 2024

Corn plants need boron throughout the growing season. The uptake curve for the micronutrient is pretty linear from emergence to black layer, but making boron available in the ear later in the season, where it plays an important role in sugar movement and developing kernels, can be difficult. The challenge, says AGRIS Co-operative senior agronomist.

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Organic fertilizers such as manure, compost , and other organic amendments are valuable sources of nitrogen. However, unlike synthetic fertilizers that provide readily available nitrogen, the nitrogen in organic fertilizers is released gradually through biological processes.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 28, 2023

When it comes to maintaining a lush and vibrant lawn, the role of fertilizers cannot be overstated. Among the plethora of fertilizers available, Milorganite stands out as a remarkable and eco-friendly option. Milorganite is an organic nitrogen fertilizer, containing a host of essential nutrients required for plant growth.

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Agric4profits

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Improving the quality of soil is vital for obtaining higher crop yields. Soil, which is the earth where plants grow, plays a significant role in agriculture.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa. Genetic modification can improve crop yields — but stop overselling it. Drivers and stressors of resilience to food insecurity: evidence from 35 countries. …but that doesn’t mean agroecology is wrong.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Those healthy looking soybeans may be hiding a hunger for nitrogen that could deliver higher yields. The oilseed’s nitrogen needs have been much studied over the years with researchers generally agreeing higher rates of nitrogen don’t pay, but that may not be the case when growers push for higher yields. Read More

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Those healthy looking soybeans may be hiding a hunger for nitrogen that could deliver higher yields. The oilseed’s nitrogen needs have been much studied over the years with researchers generally agreeing higher rates of nitrogen don’t pay, but that may not be the case when growers push for higher yields.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The University of Zurich reports that inoculating the soil with mycorrhizal fungi can help maintain or even improve yields without the use of additional fertilizers or pesticides. “The mycorrhizal fungi act as a kind of protective shield against pathogens in the soil that would weaken the plants.”

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Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2024

In modern agricultural practices, mycorrhizal fungi are increasingly recognized for their role in enhancing plant health and soil fertility. By enhancing nutrient uptake, particularly phosphorus, mycorrhizal fungi reduce the need for chemical fertilizers, leading to substantial cost savings.

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Cropin Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The fertile ground of technological advancement holds the key to meeting the escalating demand for sustainable and efficient food management practices. Crop yield prediction is the cornerstone of food value chain management and, therefore, critical for the agri-industry at large. Accurate yield predictions enable:

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Real Agriculture

JULY 22, 2024

When that happens, any seeds that would have been fertilized during the very hot temps fail to form, dragging down eventual yield. When that happens, any seeds that would have been fertilized during the very hot temps fail to form, dragging down eventual yield. As Justin Nanninga, from Neeralandia, Alta., Read More

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Agwired

MARCH 7, 2024

A recent study at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment found that replacing 40 pounds of synthetic nitrogen with Pivot Bio PROVEN® 40 can increase corn yields while reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizer. Other results from the studies indicated higher corn yields.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 12, 2024

Between the Fencerows: The goal is to boost yield with the same amount of product by focusing on the poor spots in a field.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

This “leaky system” refers to what is not absorbed by the crops on the field, most dangerously, in this case, fertilizer. “It’s And farmers know they’re going to lose some fertilizer. Fertilizer as Poison The U.S. Fertilizer as Poison The U.S. As a consequence, they apply extra as insurance.”

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Virginia farmer Nicky Schauder, of Permaculture Gardens in Virginia, received a two-year Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Producer Grant to support testing aerated compost tea as a fertility source for organic farming. Project results are available online from Southern SARE.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 28, 2023

When it comes to maintaining a lush and vibrant lawn, the role of fertilizers cannot be overstated. Among the plethora of fertilizers available, Milorganite stands out as a remarkable and eco-friendly option. Milorganite is an organic nitrogen fertilizer, containing a host of essential nutrients required for plant growth.

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Agri-tech

JANUARY 4, 2024

Researchers in the group of Professor Graham Moore at the John Innes Centre made the discovery during experiments looking at wheat fertility in plants exposed to either high or low temperatures. Wheat fertility and therefore yield.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Soil type, water availability, hybrid choice, plant population and crop nutrients are just some of the factors growers have to consider when pursuing a high-yielding corn crop on their farm.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Also in this edition: double crop beans yields, foggy mornings and farm safety, pet peeves, fungicide ROI, and more! Also in this edition: double crop beans yields, foggy mornings and farm safety, pet peeves, fungicide ROI, and more! Have a question you’d like.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 2, 2024

Wheat is a crop that sets yield potential very early in the season, so it’s imperative that the crop get off to the best start possible. Once plant stands and tillers are off to the races, splitting nitrogen can manage risk and help reach full yield potential. What’s more, late N can also bump protein. Read More

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