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Get ready for plant 2021. By 4/20/2021 From creating a plan for your yield goal to weed management strategies, these agronomic experts share tips to keep you on track during planting season. 1. Create a plan to reach your yield goal. “First and foremost, farmers need to determine a yield goal and create a detailed plan to reach it,” Tanna Petersak, regional sales agronomist for Stine Seed says. “Soil tests are extremely important to know the productivity and fertility of acres and learning where to improve. Ideally, this should be done over the fall and winter mo...

Agronomy Tip: Rotate Your Crops “Crop rotation is a key component in an effective weed resistance management strategy,” says Mark Kitt, corn herbicide technical product lead for Syngenta. “A rotation will extend the range of available herbicides and agronomic practices.” Read more about

The “10 Commandments” of weed management provide a comprehensive framework for planning Maximum income for minimal investment. That’s the goal for every farmer, every year. The challenge of weed control compromises that goal – especially as herbicide-resistant weeds gain ground.  Stevan Knezevic, weed management specialist at the University of Nebraska, offers “10 Commandments” of weed management that growers can reference to make sure all their bases are covered this coming season. Knezevic and Mark Kitt, corn herbicide technical product lead for Syngenta, weigh in on weed ma...

Photo credit: Gil Gullickson Two years ago, Bruce Stripling sat in FMC’s booth at the Commodity Classic trade show, viewing companies pitching the latest agricultural technology.  “All this technology, and here we are, still pulling pigweeds,” says the regional technical service manager for FMC.  Stripling hails from Georgia, where Palmer amaranth started to devastate soybean and cotton fields in the mid-2000s. At that time, glyphosate-tolerant Roundup Ready technology still worked well in the Midwest.  Before Roundup Ready, Georgia farmers managed weeds in cotton and soybe...