While fertilizer prices have trended lower in recent months, they remain historically high and a cause for concern as growers close the books on the 2022 crop year. “Farmers are crunching their numbers, but they can’t forget that when they harvest a crop, they&rsqu...

As we get into the hot months of summer one thing is for sure, harvest is right around the corner and farmers are getting ready. In cotton country, that often looks like pulling the cotton pickers into the shop and going through general maintenance items such as replacing worn sp...

The first seven months of 2022 have evaporated, and mid-South farmers now find themselves within a stone’s throw of harvest season. Gone are the days of relying on time-worn hunches, a can of WD-40, and the Farmer’s Almanac when preparing for the season. In today&rsqu...

Quality application of fertilizers is critical every year, but the spotlight is intense on this field-pass given current input costs this year. Accurate and precise application can be attained by regularly testing for calibration, uniformity, and machine maintenance.

Peanut production has been a staple of southeastern agriculture for generations. With today’s market conditions, peanuts can no longer be looked at as a rotational crop to get by until the next cotton year. Every peanut acre counts, every year. That’s why, ever since ...

It’s no secret that precision ag has changed the face of agriculture over the past two decades. Technology that applies the variable, data-driven amounts of fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides to particular areas of a single crop field continues to cut waste and incre...

What’s the most essential input, other than sunlight, that a crop needs to survive and thrive? Sure, fertilizer and good weather play an instrumental role, but without water that crop is destined to fail. Soil moisture monitors have been around for quite some time but ...

Agriculture technology and agronomy are designed to work together to enhance decision-making and field performances at the highest level currently possible. Combining the two together is how agriculture will continue to advance.   

Fertilizer prices continued to soar to record highs as the 2021 fall harvest moves into its latter stages, leaving growers with yet another major concern as they begin planning for next year. And while there’s not much that can be done from the farm level to slow price incr...

Some of you may be in the heat of harvest while others are gearing up to begin shortly. Here are some considerations to think through as you plan to collect quality yield data that you can use for future management decisions.