Reposted with permission from our partner Sentinel Fertigation If you’ve listened to the radio in rural Nebraska over the past few months or follow many folks in the agriculture community on Twitter, you’re probably aware that nitrogen management is a top-of-mind issue for farmers in the 2022 growing season. Not only are there concerns about […]
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Reposted with permission from our partner Sentinel Fertigation Incredible amounts of data are captured through agricultural operations each growing season. In 2017, Ohio State University master’s student Trey Colley and his advisor Dr. John Fulton collected 18.5 GB of data on a single corn plant. If I recall correctly, other presentations from Dr. Fulton have
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Our annual meeting will be held on February 15 at the K of C Hall in Elgin with a meal being served at 6 pm. The interesting agenda planned includes covering markets, crop insurance, fertilizer, herbicides, and nitrogen management. Managing these issues wisely will be especially important this year. Markets are always an interesting topic, and we will have
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Agriculture has a certain rhythm with seasons coming and going in a predictable pattern. We till, we plant, we control weeds, and so on in a seasonal pattern. Politics gets meaner. Weeds get tougher to control. But, within that rhythm each year presents a unique set of issues. As we enter the third year of
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If you weren’t able to attend our annual meeting, watch the replay of Ben Buckner’s presentation. Ben is a Grain Markets Specialist at AgResource. Video Transcript: Hello, Midplains. This is Ben Buckner with AgResource company in Chicago. It is always such a pleasure to be a part of your annual meeting, at least
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Video Transcript: Three hundred bushel corn and 70 bushel beans. The beans are on the back page, okay. And this was a no rent. This is just your inputs. So you can go across there and you can put your own cost in there. I did this and I’ve been passing these out.
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Video Transcript: All right. Let’s see. See if we got this whole thing working here. All right. Awesome. So as Rich mentioned, I’m Jackson Stansell. I just founded Sentinel Fertigation to commercialize some of the work that we’ve been doing at UNL in cooperation with Rich. His operation over the past three years, this
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Have you ever wondered why nitrogen is so hard to manage? As you can see in the nitrogen cycle diagram below, the nitrogen that is available to plants is affected by many factors including weather and soils. These factors are complicated, and many are beyond the control of the farmer. To control the uncertainty created
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Our workforce here at Midplains Ag attends workshops held by the Underwriting (AIPs) companies, twice a yearly to keep updated with the current & upcoming changes occurring in crop insurance. Recently, after attending workshops for RCIS and AgriSompo this August. we would like to briefly mention a few items that might affect your operation. For
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Wow! 2022 has been hot and dry here. The lack of rain is becoming evident all around us. Looks like an early dryland harvest for corn and soybeans but what about your pastures?? My experience so far is that the calves will be coming home sooner than we would like. Why? The extreme lack of
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