Know Your Numbers
Farm managers today face increasingly difficult decisions as operations grow and margins tighten. Knowing your numbers helps you make better decisions that ultimately reduce the stress and fear of making a costly mistake.
Building Soil Carbon on Your Farm
Many practices, such as reduced tillage, increased residue coverage and improved crop rotations, have been incorporated in the last fifty years that have lowered the loss of carbon, and farmers need to continue this trend to encourage healthy and resilient soils.
Survivorship Bias; When Things Don’t Add Up
Things aren’t always what they seem in agronomy as in engineering. There are many causes and effects. Only with experience can you learn to look through the noise.
“You need boots, not gigabytes…”
If you are not walking your own fields, it is crucial you trust the person doing it for you. There are many experienced professionals that can help but it is difficult to replace your firsthand knowledge of your own operation.
A Meal Plan for Soil Health
As land owners, we need to ensure that our land is healthy and nourished, not only our plants.
Rethink the Relationship Wind has with your Soil
It is easy to forget our fields once the harvest is in the bin and the last pull [...]
40 Chances to Grow your Best Crop
I recently came across an article written by NDSU Extension Agent, Brad B [...]
Land Prices and Productivity
With new technological developments in measuring soil productivity, more emphasis will be put on stewardship and production potential when determining land values.
Soil Test P – Making a case for annual soil testing
Phosphate fertilizers are applied in the top 3-4” of a soil profile and don’t typically move much. One of the biggest challenges to getting accurate year to year results is a consistent sampling depth. It’s crucial to get an accurate 0-6” depth.
Canola emergence on clay soils
Starter fertilizer can have a negative effect on canola seedling emergence, especially on eroded knolls testing high in calcium carbonates.
