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2019 Sweet Peppers Demo Trail with Primacy ALPHA Technology
Jun 04, 2019The demo trail consisted of 10 sweet pepper plants, five treated with Primacy ALPHA, five untreated.
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Poor Seed Quality? Get The Most From The Seed That You Have
Mar 20, 2019Chronic wet weather can significantly impact soybean seed quality. A seed treatment can make all the difference.
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Seed Treatments Expand Management Options
Oct 02, 2017Seed-applied fungicides and insecticides increasingly give soybean producers a way to manage a broad spectrum of early- and mid-season pathogen and insect species. Research shows using a seed treatment and lower seeding rate can have a big impact on yield, profitability and economic risk.
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Understanding Antagonistic and Synergistic Nutrient Interactions in Soil to Increase Yield
Sep 18, 2017In the quest for increased yield it becomes more important to tease out the details of soil fertility.
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Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Phosphorus Applications
May 22, 2017The 4Rs of Nutrient Stewardship are defined in terms of making a cropping system more sustainable, with the “right” source, rate, time and place subjective to the factors of each farm and field. Recommendations differ for each field, but there are best practices that can be implemented to manage phosphorus loss.
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Helping Lazy Plants Help Themselves
May 09, 2017Farmers and agronomists spend a lot of time and effort to perfect placement, timing and rate of nitrogen (N) applications, but corn plants can be lazy and inefficient when it comes to utilizing N.
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Investing in Soil Health Pays
Mar 24, 2017Farm trends come and go, but perhaps nothing has gathered momentum like the subject of soil health.
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Too Much of a Good Thing
Mar 03, 2017More is not always better when it comes to phosphorus and nitrogen applications
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Farming Begins in the Soil
Oct 17, 2016We can make a lot of input decisions that impact yield – what seed we’ll use, how much fertilizer we’ll put down – but at the end of the day, a crop can only be as successful as the foundation we give it. By measuring the quality and composition of chemical, biological and physical elements, soil tests are able to determine which categories are being met and which can be improved upon.
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Kicking the Tires on New Technologies
Oct 03, 2016Products can spend years in the lab and undergoing field research before they are ready for farmer use. But even after all of the time and labor that goes into research and development, new products still aren’t ready for your farm until a third party can ‘kick the tires’ through in-field trials and testing.
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