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What is Subsurface Drip Irrigation?Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) is a way of irrigating crops through plastic tubes placed under the soil surface. The tubes have droplet emitters with even spacings, similar to the drip system located on the soil surface. There are different pipe arrangement variations, but the pipes are usually placed at a distance of 38 to 84 and at a depth of 6 to 10 below the soil surface. In the United States, SDI is widely used to irrigate annual crops; elsewhere, the irrigation system is popularly used for orchards and other perennials. SDI systems require intensive management and come with high initial costs of up to $1,000 /acre...
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Grain yield is strongly influenced by various factors, such as soil characteristics, irrigation, genetics, climate, cultivation techniques, and use of fertilizers. Fertilizers contribute incisively to the final production. To develop optimal fertilizer recommendations, it is necessary to determine the status of plant-available nutrients. The right fertilizer doses avoid incurring saline stress or nutritional deficiencies that lead to yield losses. What elements should growers consider besides the results of a soil test?The chemical-physical analysis of the soil is only a starting point to accurately establish the nutrient requirements of plant growth...
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Over the years, with the advent of climate change, the growing need to maximize production yields and the introduction of new stress-tolerant hybrids, early planting of corn has become an increasingly widespread agricultural practice. In reality, what are the benefits and risks of early planting, which lead producers to adopt this cultivation technique?Early planting benefitsOne of the main reasons why early planting is favored is the possibility of obtaining earlier flowering, which improves the photosynthetic efficiency during the period with greater availability of solar irradiance. A second benefit is to limit exposure to heat and water stress on the crop in the most sensitive phenological phases: the maximum evapotranspiration occurs at the beginning of summer when the soil water reserve is greater and can compensate for the evapotranspiration demand. Early planting also induces in the plant greater resistance against the attacks of the second generation of the pyralid: the gnawing caused by the larvae in the stalks provokes less damage, as the grain is in the physiological maturity stage (growth stage R5-R6). 1: Damage from pyralid on corn planting on March 15th...
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The main problem concerning corn cultivation is water stress: the most critical phases that suffer from water shortages, which can lead to significant production losses, are from the emission of the plume to flowering and the ripening stage. In order to obtain high yields, it is necessary to satisfy the evapotranspiration demand of the crop, which is between 0. 16 and 0. 22 inches/yard per day. For this reason, it becomes essential to select an efficient and economical irrigation system...
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Organic corn is both economically viable and technically feasible. Even though organic corn yield is 32% lesser, the prices are double that of conventional corn, guaranteeing attractive returns on investment (ROI) to growers. Moreover, there is growing technical information available to advise organic corn production. Growing Demand for Organic CornThe demand for organic corn is expected to grow globally at a CAGR of 1. 9% and amount to 1170 million USD by 2026...
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The United States is the largest producer of corn in the world. With production topping 345 million metric tons (2019 statistics from statista. com), corn has remained the backbone of American agriculture for decades. The majority of the crop is solely used for the production of biofuels such as ethanol. Other main uses are for livestock feed and exports...
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Corn is an important cereal grain grown worldwide and is a staple food in many countries. Every year the corn industry faces millions of dollars’ worth of losses primarily due to faulty logistics and poor storage facilities. Here, the damages due to storage pests and diseases are amongst the main post-harvest losses seen in stored corn grains. Depending upon the conditions, the losses may vary from slight to extensive— inevitably impacting our food security. In some cases, there may even be a direct health hazard to the humans and animals who consume the compromised grain...
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As the most important crop in North America, corn production has been growing steadily from 1930 until today. There are two periods where the yield of American farmers has increased significantly. The first is the last years of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, where farmers begin to adopt double-cross hybrids with a yield increase of 0. 8 per bushel per acre per year. The second period, significant for US corn production, started in the mid-1950s due to intensive modification of genetic potential, increased use of nitrogen fertilizers and chemical pesticides, and the use of more sophisticated agricultural machinery...
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When it comes to fertility in crop production, nitrogen is one of the most critical nutrients involved. “Nitrogen plays an important part in many essential functions and compounds necessary for life,” says the University of Missouri Extension and can be found in various parts of plants. Unfortunately, nitrogen fertilizer is susceptible to leaving the soil before it can be used up by the plant. According to Cornell University Cooperative Extension, nitrogen loss can occur in three ways:Denitrification: Nitrate converts into gaseous forms of nitrogen which are lost to the atmosphere Volatilization: Ammonium (NH4) converts to ammonia (NH3) gas which is released to the atmosphere Leaching: Nitrate, which is negatively charged like soil particles and not well retained by the soil, is washed downward by excess soil water beyond the root zone of crops. One way to reduce the loss of nitrogen is by using nitrogen stabilizers...
Updated Apr 14
There is no shortage of great apps to help farmers in 2020. As farming gets more digital, tech savvy farmers are craving tools that can help them do their jobs more efficiently and better. This list compiles 10 of the most useful apps in agriculture. My John Deere Operations Center let’s you take complete control of your operation via remote management of your fleet, monitoring of field work and applications, as well as accessing historic agronomic data. With continuing improvements and updates being rolled out regularly, John Deere has developed what is the clear flagship farm management tool...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Precision Agriculture
By Capitol Commodity Hedging Services
Published Apr 8
It seems like every spring the same thing happens. Many people attempt to predict the corn and soybean markets for the new growing season. Capitol Commodity Hedging Services does not make predictions, but poses this question: What are the lessons from 2019 that we can apply to 2020? Let’s go back to where we were this time last year. The corn and soybean markets were declining on bearish news, record crops from the year before in both the US and South America. Sound familiar? Prices continued to decline into mid May as beans approached $8...
Published Mar 12, 2018
It's that time of year again where things seem to be waking up from the doldrums of Winter. . . the grass is greening up, pollen is falling everywhere and even an occasional snake shows up. ...
Published Dec 9, 2019
In Gaston, Ind. , Jason Mauck is farming a little differently from his neighbors. Unlike the typical corn-and-soybean monocropping system, for the last 5 years Mauck has been doing low population, wide-row relay intercropping. So far he has seen success with soybeans into wheat, but he’s also working on corn intercropped with a legume. Inspired by the results he saw from interplanting and using low populations in the landscape business he started prior to farming full-time, his goal is to capitalize on sunshine, wheat and hog manure — annually Mauck has about 5 million gallons from his 25,000 finishing hogs operation...
By Darren Chan
Published Oct 15, 2019
Beauveria Bassiana fungus is a fungus that grows naturally in soils around the world. Acting as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; It widely used as a sprayed biological insecticide to control a great many pests such as bed bugs, termites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids, and different beetles. Once Beauveria Bassiana infects the host insects, the fungus grows fast inside of the insect’s body. Feeding on the nutrients present in the host’s body and producing toxins continuously. Insecticidal MechanismBeauveria Bassiana is a pathogenic fungus...
Categories: Corn, Organic Row Crops, Peanuts
By Carolina Irrigation Solutions
Published Oct 9, 2019
Do you have mixed feelings about technology? I do. Some technology takes our time, isolates us, and numbs our brains. Then there is technology that makes life more efficient, brings more information to you, and improves your quality of life. This is the technology we want in our lives, and bringing this kind of technology to our customers is important to us and is an integral part of the Ag community. Agsense, which provides remote telemetry options to your farm is the “good kind” of technology...
Categories: Corn, Irrigation, Precision Agriculture
By Capitol Commodity Hedging Services
Published Sep 19, 2019
May through July offered an excellent opportunity to start our hedge campaign for 2019. In light of the next to impossible early planting conditions throughout the corn belt, the prices somehow, are right back down to the early May lows. Unbelievable! Which is why a proactive approach must be taken by buying puts into rallies each season on a scale-in basis. . We had 3 trigger sell signals this year, see chart below...
Published Aug 13, 2018
A common concern growers may have when they move to a no-till system is nutrient stratification. Without tillage to mix fertilizer into the soil, no-tillers may wonder whether the nutrients applied to the soil surface are reaching the crop roots. According to University of Nebraska Extension engineer Paul Jasa and Ray Ward, plant scientist and founder of Ward Laboratories in Kearney, Neb. , the resounding answer is: yes, they are. Even though stratification — the non-uniform distribution of nutrients within a soil’s depth, with higher concentrations of nutrients toward the soil surface — does occur in no-till, it should not be a concern...
Categories: Corn, Cover Crops
By Darren Chan
Published May 28, 2019
Chitosan oligosaccharide is known as plant vaccines and they are the third type of vaccine after human and animal vaccines. It’s applied in a wide range of crops and application methods are also very flexible. Its important value has been gradually tapped and catch more and more attention. A wealth of compound products has emerged in and will open up a new path for crop nutrition and health. Now we analyze the current mainstream application methods: 1...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Organic Row Crops
By Darren Chan
Published Apr 29, 2019
Market InterpretationNematicides helps in securing crops from nematodes as well as various other soil-dwelling pests. This, subsequently, has actually driven the growth of nematicides market. The burden on the healthcare sector because of the large-scale existence of chronic illness has actually urged changes in customer behavior pattern. An upswing sought after for natural items is anticipated which is most likely to produce nematicides demand over the following number of years. Market Scenario and Key RestraintsThe longevity of pests has actually heightened the need for nematicides across the farming sector...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Wheat
Published Apr 19, 2019
If you’ve considered using cereal rye as a cover crop in front of corn, you’ve probably been warned that your yield would suffer. And the truth is it might. Research has shown that corn yields can take a hit after cereal rye, but it doesn’t happen every time. Unfortunately, it’s hard to pinpoint what exactly is causing these problems, and predict when they may occur. Alison Robertson, a plant pathologist at Iowa State University, believes it’s a combination of ‘green bridge,’ allelopathy, nitrogen and the environment that are involved...
Categories: Corn, Cover Crops
By Karen Fitch
Published Apr 10, 2019
Today, we want to talk a little bit about stress. It seems that there was a frantic-ness in the air. I know that we’ve had the hardest winter in a long time, probably since about 1978 and so as we come into spring in a rough space as to what we’re doing for plant 19. Try to remember this though it’s April 10th and it’s going to be okay. Since we’re only at the start of April, let’s not overreact and act like it’s June it’s not even May 10th so that’s good news...
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By Darren Chan
Published Mar 1, 2019
Nowadays, the rate of China’s fertilizer utilization is relatively low, a large number of the fertilizer is loss or solidified in the soil. This situation has led to many soil problems, such as salinization, hardening and acidification conditions. Why trichoderma can help soil build good conditionTrichoderma can improve soil structure. The hyphae and other substance reproduced by trichoderma can be used as a cementing material to help soil build a stable granular structure, which is porous & full of nutrition. Soil aggregate structure can balance the contradiction between water and nutrients...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Organic Row Crops
By Darren Chan
Published Feb 12, 2019
Researchers are studying the effects of chitosan on mycorrhiza. Good effects on mycorrhizal and root systems of related plants can be observed, leading to healthier crops growth and fruiting. The enzyme-resistant enzymes (chitinase) produced by plants are particularly effective against the phytopathogenic fungi cell wall, but they don’t have such function against the cell wall of mycorrhiza. It would be no harmful increase in the mycorrhiza, chitinase after observing the soil chitosan-treated. The increasing in lignification of plant cell walls after treatment with chitosan can defend the mycorrhizal fungi of arbuscular or ectodermal layers, because both of them were contacting the side roots of plants near the root crown, meanwhile the rhizomes are completed and form the root hairs...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Dairy
By Miriam Pflug
Published Jan 16, 2019
Two inspiring speakers will kick off the SC AgriBiz & Farm Expo this year. American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall and award-winning author and speaker Michele Payn will both offer enlightening and inspiring presentations during the opening of the seventh annual expo. The SC AgriBiz & Farm Expo will be held on Jan. 23 and 24 at the Florence Center in Florence, S. C...
Published Jan 10, 2019
This is an unquestionably tough time to be a farmer. A trade war has beaten down already marginal prices, inputs have risen more than anyone could have predicted and many of us have experienced a so-called thousand-year weather event--not only once but twice in the last four years. You hear the same advice all around during times like this: “The farmers who will survive and thrive during tough times are low-cost producers. ” For the most part, this is very good advice. Farmers are inundated with a number of questionable inputs and, during the toughest of times, it’s not hard to see areas where we can cut rates or cut out products completely...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Cotton
By Darren Chan
Published Jan 2, 2019
Introduction of MycorrhizaExcessive dependence on chemical fertilizers can result in the destruction of a large number of beneficial microbial communities in the soil and a decrease in soil activity. To improve the current soil ecosystem with serious damage and improve soil fertility, it is imperative to supplement soil beneficial microorganisms. The application of microbial fertilizer is the most direct and effective method. Symbiotic bacteria are fungi that need to grow with plants, but do not harm plants and they are beneficial to plant growth. The symbiotic bacteria can grow together with the roots of some plants to form a special symbiont-exogenous mycorrhiza, which exchanges substances with each other through the mycorrhiza...
Categories: Agribusiness, Beef, Corn
By Capitol Commodity Hedging Services
Published Oct 22, 2018
Row crop markets post small gains in bid to consolidate following Thur/Fri sell off on combo of poor sales/soy concellations. All three markets post new lows overnight with wheat selling off post biscuit following small gains Friday. Weather leans negative with E Midwest open all week while only lite rains mid week across portions of W Midwest. A more substantial rain delay occurs mid next week across majority of Midwest. Arg weekend rains fall short of expectations while Brazil 5 day soy coverage at 70%...
By Darren Chan
Published Jun 28, 2018
In some plants,stems and leaves appear scorching and shrinking,and some even die. Some pest structures also change. This is what the performance of continuous cropping obstacle in different crops. The reasons are generally the following aspects:1. Continuous cropping causes symptoms of deficiency in soilField crops have a long reproductive cycle...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Organic Row Crops
Published Jun 20, 2018
Will it pay to apply a fungicide? That’s the million-dollar question for farmers looking to boost production on a limited budget. The honest answer is, it depends. At a time when every input dollar matters, here are some tips to help maximize your profitability on fungicide applications. Your RiskEach year brings different environmental conditions, which is why most fungicide sales are made in-season. But knowing the risk factors that can make your fields more susceptible to disease helps focus your scouting efforts...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn
Published Jun 6, 2018
The USDA began reporting corn yield estimates in 1866. That year, the average farm was harvesting 24. 3 bushels per acre; today that same farm averages 176. 6 bushels of corn per acre. One might think that yield increased steadily each year, but that’s not what happened...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Soybeans
Published Sep 9
What is Subsurface Drip Irrigation?Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) is a way of irrigating crops through plastic tubes placed under the soil surface. The tubes have droplet emitters with even spacings, similar to the drip system located on the soil surface. There are different pipe arrangement variations, but the pipes are usually placed at a distance of 38 to 84 and at a depth of 6 to 10 below the soil surface. In the United States, SDI is widely used to irrigate annual crops; elsewhere, the irrigation system is popularly used for orchards and other perennials. SDI systems require intensive management and come with high initial costs of up to $1,000 /acre...
Categories: Corn, Irrigation, Precision Agriculture
Updated Aug 20
Grain yield is strongly influenced by various factors, such as soil characteristics, irrigation, genetics, climate, cultivation techniques, and use of fertilizers. Fertilizers contribute incisively to the final production. To develop optimal fertilizer recommendations, it is necessary to determine the status of plant-available nutrients. The right fertilizer doses avoid incurring saline stress or nutritional deficiencies that lead to yield losses. What elements should growers consider besides the results of a soil test?The chemical-physical analysis of the soil is only a starting point to accurately establish the nutrient requirements of plant growth...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Specialty
Updated Aug 20
Over the years, with the advent of climate change, the growing need to maximize production yields and the introduction of new stress-tolerant hybrids, early planting of corn has become an increasingly widespread agricultural practice. In reality, what are the benefits and risks of early planting, which lead producers to adopt this cultivation technique?Early planting benefitsOne of the main reasons why early planting is favored is the possibility of obtaining earlier flowering, which improves the photosynthetic efficiency during the period with greater availability of solar irradiance. A second benefit is to limit exposure to heat and water stress on the crop in the most sensitive phenological phases: the maximum evapotranspiration occurs at the beginning of summer when the soil water reserve is greater and can compensate for the evapotranspiration demand. Early planting also induces in the plant greater resistance against the attacks of the second generation of the pyralid: the gnawing caused by the larvae in the stalks provokes less damage, as the grain is in the physiological maturity stage (growth stage R5-R6). 1: Damage from pyralid on corn planting on March 15th...
Categories: Corn
Updated Aug 19
The main problem concerning corn cultivation is water stress: the most critical phases that suffer from water shortages, which can lead to significant production losses, are from the emission of the plume to flowering and the ripening stage. In order to obtain high yields, it is necessary to satisfy the evapotranspiration demand of the crop, which is between 0. 16 and 0. 22 inches/yard per day. For this reason, it becomes essential to select an efficient and economical irrigation system...
Categories: Corn, Agribusiness, Irrigation
Published Aug 14
Organic corn is both economically viable and technically feasible. Even though organic corn yield is 32% lesser, the prices are double that of conventional corn, guaranteeing attractive returns on investment (ROI) to growers. Moreover, there is growing technical information available to advise organic corn production. Growing Demand for Organic CornThe demand for organic corn is expected to grow globally at a CAGR of 1. 9% and amount to 1170 million USD by 2026...
Categories: Corn, Organic Row Crops
Updated Aug 9
The United States is the largest producer of corn in the world. With production topping 345 million metric tons (2019 statistics from statista. com), corn has remained the backbone of American agriculture for decades. The majority of the crop is solely used for the production of biofuels such as ethanol. Other main uses are for livestock feed and exports...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn
Updated Aug 9
Corn is an important cereal grain grown worldwide and is a staple food in many countries. Every year the corn industry faces millions of dollars’ worth of losses primarily due to faulty logistics and poor storage facilities. Here, the damages due to storage pests and diseases are amongst the main post-harvest losses seen in stored corn grains. Depending upon the conditions, the losses may vary from slight to extensive— inevitably impacting our food security. In some cases, there may even be a direct health hazard to the humans and animals who consume the compromised grain...
Categories: Corn
Updated Aug 1
As the most important crop in North America, corn production has been growing steadily from 1930 until today. There are two periods where the yield of American farmers has increased significantly. The first is the last years of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, where farmers begin to adopt double-cross hybrids with a yield increase of 0. 8 per bushel per acre per year. The second period, significant for US corn production, started in the mid-1950s due to intensive modification of genetic potential, increased use of nitrogen fertilizers and chemical pesticides, and the use of more sophisticated agricultural machinery...
Categories: Corn
Published Jul 7
Every year foliar diseases take a hit to corn yields across the U. S. and Canada. One way to protect corn bushels from these diseases is with corn fungicides. But in economic times when margins are tight, farmers must consider how foliar fungicide applications will impact their bottom line...
Categories: Corn
Updated May 26
When it comes to fertility in crop production, nitrogen is one of the most critical nutrients involved. “Nitrogen plays an important part in many essential functions and compounds necessary for life,” says the University of Missouri Extension and can be found in various parts of plants. Unfortunately, nitrogen fertilizer is susceptible to leaving the soil before it can be used up by the plant. According to Cornell University Cooperative Extension, nitrogen loss can occur in three ways:Denitrification: Nitrate converts into gaseous forms of nitrogen which are lost to the atmosphere Volatilization: Ammonium (NH4) converts to ammonia (NH3) gas which is released to the atmosphere Leaching: Nitrate, which is negatively charged like soil particles and not well retained by the soil, is washed downward by excess soil water beyond the root zone of crops. One way to reduce the loss of nitrogen is by using nitrogen stabilizers...
Updated Apr 14
There is no shortage of great apps to help farmers in 2020. As farming gets more digital, tech savvy farmers are craving tools that can help them do their jobs more efficiently and better. This list compiles 10 of the most useful apps in agriculture. My John Deere Operations Center let’s you take complete control of your operation via remote management of your fleet, monitoring of field work and applications, as well as accessing historic agronomic data. With continuing improvements and updates being rolled out regularly, John Deere has developed what is the clear flagship farm management tool...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Precision Agriculture
By Capitol Commodity Hedging Services
Published Apr 8
It seems like every spring the same thing happens. Many people attempt to predict the corn and soybean markets for the new growing season. Capitol Commodity Hedging Services does not make predictions, but poses this question: What are the lessons from 2019 that we can apply to 2020? Let’s go back to where we were this time last year. The corn and soybean markets were declining on bearish news, record crops from the year before in both the US and South America. Sound familiar? Prices continued to decline into mid May as beans approached $8...
Published Mar 12, 2018
It's that time of year again where things seem to be waking up from the doldrums of Winter. . . the grass is greening up, pollen is falling everywhere and even an occasional snake shows up. ...
Published Dec 9, 2019
In Gaston, Ind. , Jason Mauck is farming a little differently from his neighbors. Unlike the typical corn-and-soybean monocropping system, for the last 5 years Mauck has been doing low population, wide-row relay intercropping. So far he has seen success with soybeans into wheat, but he’s also working on corn intercropped with a legume. Inspired by the results he saw from interplanting and using low populations in the landscape business he started prior to farming full-time, his goal is to capitalize on sunshine, wheat and hog manure — annually Mauck has about 5 million gallons from his 25,000 finishing hogs operation...
By Darren Chan
Published Oct 15, 2019
Beauveria Bassiana fungus is a fungus that grows naturally in soils around the world. Acting as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; It widely used as a sprayed biological insecticide to control a great many pests such as bed bugs, termites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids, and different beetles. Once Beauveria Bassiana infects the host insects, the fungus grows fast inside of the insect’s body. Feeding on the nutrients present in the host’s body and producing toxins continuously. Insecticidal MechanismBeauveria Bassiana is a pathogenic fungus...
Categories: Corn, Organic Row Crops, Peanuts
By Carolina Irrigation Solutions
Published Oct 9, 2019
Do you have mixed feelings about technology? I do. Some technology takes our time, isolates us, and numbs our brains. Then there is technology that makes life more efficient, brings more information to you, and improves your quality of life. This is the technology we want in our lives, and bringing this kind of technology to our customers is important to us and is an integral part of the Ag community. Agsense, which provides remote telemetry options to your farm is the “good kind” of technology...
Categories: Corn, Irrigation, Precision Agriculture
By Capitol Commodity Hedging Services
Published Sep 19, 2019
May through July offered an excellent opportunity to start our hedge campaign for 2019. In light of the next to impossible early planting conditions throughout the corn belt, the prices somehow, are right back down to the early May lows. Unbelievable! Which is why a proactive approach must be taken by buying puts into rallies each season on a scale-in basis. . We had 3 trigger sell signals this year, see chart below...
Published Aug 13, 2018
A common concern growers may have when they move to a no-till system is nutrient stratification. Without tillage to mix fertilizer into the soil, no-tillers may wonder whether the nutrients applied to the soil surface are reaching the crop roots. According to University of Nebraska Extension engineer Paul Jasa and Ray Ward, plant scientist and founder of Ward Laboratories in Kearney, Neb. , the resounding answer is: yes, they are. Even though stratification — the non-uniform distribution of nutrients within a soil’s depth, with higher concentrations of nutrients toward the soil surface — does occur in no-till, it should not be a concern...
Categories: Corn, Cover Crops
By Darren Chan
Published May 28, 2019
Chitosan oligosaccharide is known as plant vaccines and they are the third type of vaccine after human and animal vaccines. It’s applied in a wide range of crops and application methods are also very flexible. Its important value has been gradually tapped and catch more and more attention. A wealth of compound products has emerged in and will open up a new path for crop nutrition and health. Now we analyze the current mainstream application methods: 1...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Organic Row Crops
By Darren Chan
Published Apr 29, 2019
Market InterpretationNematicides helps in securing crops from nematodes as well as various other soil-dwelling pests. This, subsequently, has actually driven the growth of nematicides market. The burden on the healthcare sector because of the large-scale existence of chronic illness has actually urged changes in customer behavior pattern. An upswing sought after for natural items is anticipated which is most likely to produce nematicides demand over the following number of years. Market Scenario and Key RestraintsThe longevity of pests has actually heightened the need for nematicides across the farming sector...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Wheat
Published Apr 19, 2019
If you’ve considered using cereal rye as a cover crop in front of corn, you’ve probably been warned that your yield would suffer. And the truth is it might. Research has shown that corn yields can take a hit after cereal rye, but it doesn’t happen every time. Unfortunately, it’s hard to pinpoint what exactly is causing these problems, and predict when they may occur. Alison Robertson, a plant pathologist at Iowa State University, believes it’s a combination of ‘green bridge,’ allelopathy, nitrogen and the environment that are involved...
Categories: Corn, Cover Crops
By Karen Fitch
Published Apr 10, 2019
Today, we want to talk a little bit about stress. It seems that there was a frantic-ness in the air. I know that we’ve had the hardest winter in a long time, probably since about 1978 and so as we come into spring in a rough space as to what we’re doing for plant 19. Try to remember this though it’s April 10th and it’s going to be okay. Since we’re only at the start of April, let’s not overreact and act like it’s June it’s not even May 10th so that’s good news...
Categories: Corn
By Darren Chan
Published Mar 1, 2019
Nowadays, the rate of China’s fertilizer utilization is relatively low, a large number of the fertilizer is loss or solidified in the soil. This situation has led to many soil problems, such as salinization, hardening and acidification conditions. Why trichoderma can help soil build good conditionTrichoderma can improve soil structure. The hyphae and other substance reproduced by trichoderma can be used as a cementing material to help soil build a stable granular structure, which is porous & full of nutrition. Soil aggregate structure can balance the contradiction between water and nutrients...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Organic Row Crops
By Darren Chan
Published Feb 12, 2019
Researchers are studying the effects of chitosan on mycorrhiza. Good effects on mycorrhizal and root systems of related plants can be observed, leading to healthier crops growth and fruiting. The enzyme-resistant enzymes (chitinase) produced by plants are particularly effective against the phytopathogenic fungi cell wall, but they don’t have such function against the cell wall of mycorrhiza. It would be no harmful increase in the mycorrhiza, chitinase after observing the soil chitosan-treated. The increasing in lignification of plant cell walls after treatment with chitosan can defend the mycorrhizal fungi of arbuscular or ectodermal layers, because both of them were contacting the side roots of plants near the root crown, meanwhile the rhizomes are completed and form the root hairs...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Dairy
By Miriam Pflug
Published Jan 16, 2019
Two inspiring speakers will kick off the SC AgriBiz & Farm Expo this year. American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall and award-winning author and speaker Michele Payn will both offer enlightening and inspiring presentations during the opening of the seventh annual expo. The SC AgriBiz & Farm Expo will be held on Jan. 23 and 24 at the Florence Center in Florence, S. C...
Published Jan 10, 2019
This is an unquestionably tough time to be a farmer. A trade war has beaten down already marginal prices, inputs have risen more than anyone could have predicted and many of us have experienced a so-called thousand-year weather event--not only once but twice in the last four years. You hear the same advice all around during times like this: “The farmers who will survive and thrive during tough times are low-cost producers. ” For the most part, this is very good advice. Farmers are inundated with a number of questionable inputs and, during the toughest of times, it’s not hard to see areas where we can cut rates or cut out products completely...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Cotton
By Darren Chan
Published Jan 2, 2019
Introduction of MycorrhizaExcessive dependence on chemical fertilizers can result in the destruction of a large number of beneficial microbial communities in the soil and a decrease in soil activity. To improve the current soil ecosystem with serious damage and improve soil fertility, it is imperative to supplement soil beneficial microorganisms. The application of microbial fertilizer is the most direct and effective method. Symbiotic bacteria are fungi that need to grow with plants, but do not harm plants and they are beneficial to plant growth. The symbiotic bacteria can grow together with the roots of some plants to form a special symbiont-exogenous mycorrhiza, which exchanges substances with each other through the mycorrhiza...
Categories: Agribusiness, Beef, Corn
By Capitol Commodity Hedging Services
Published Oct 22, 2018
Row crop markets post small gains in bid to consolidate following Thur/Fri sell off on combo of poor sales/soy concellations. All three markets post new lows overnight with wheat selling off post biscuit following small gains Friday. Weather leans negative with E Midwest open all week while only lite rains mid week across portions of W Midwest. A more substantial rain delay occurs mid next week across majority of Midwest. Arg weekend rains fall short of expectations while Brazil 5 day soy coverage at 70%...
By Darren Chan
Published Jun 28, 2018
In some plants,stems and leaves appear scorching and shrinking,and some even die. Some pest structures also change. This is what the performance of continuous cropping obstacle in different crops. The reasons are generally the following aspects:1. Continuous cropping causes symptoms of deficiency in soilField crops have a long reproductive cycle...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Organic Row Crops
Published Jun 20, 2018
Will it pay to apply a fungicide? That’s the million-dollar question for farmers looking to boost production on a limited budget. The honest answer is, it depends. At a time when every input dollar matters, here are some tips to help maximize your profitability on fungicide applications. Your RiskEach year brings different environmental conditions, which is why most fungicide sales are made in-season. But knowing the risk factors that can make your fields more susceptible to disease helps focus your scouting efforts...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn
Published Jun 6, 2018
The USDA began reporting corn yield estimates in 1866. That year, the average farm was harvesting 24. 3 bushels per acre; today that same farm averages 176. 6 bushels of corn per acre. One might think that yield increased steadily each year, but that’s not what happened...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Soybeans
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