Business Title: Cornelius
Job Title: Crop Consultant
Interests:
Corn, Soybeans, Crop Protection, Crop Scouting, Fertility, Soil Health, Sustainable Agriculture, Precision Agriculture, Ag Commentary, News, Agribusiness, Ag Policy, Farm Management, Cover Crops
Business Title: ISU Extension
Job Title: Farmer, Landowner, Extension Agent Or University Employee
Interests:
Corn, Soybeans, Beef, Feed, Grass-Fed Livestock, Apps, Precision Agriculture, Telemetry, Ag Commentary, News, Accounting and Bookkeeping, Operating a Farm, Cover Crops, NRCS, Horses
Interests: Corn, Cotton, Peanuts, Soybeans, Wheat, Vegetables, Rice, Canola, Sorghum, Beef, Dairy, Poultry, Cover Crops, Precision Agriculture, Organic Row Crops, Vigna Subterranea
About: Visit us at Agrilend.co The problem with traditional Agricultural Lending is beyond Portfolio Theory, Diversification, Credit or Operational Risk, as well as Financial Servicing Capacity to service debt obligations in unpredictable markets predicated by supply and demand. Agrilend.co pools international currency in USA Agribusiness with international digital currencies through MERCOSUR
Interests:
Corn, Cotton, Peanuts, Soybeans, Wheat, Vegetables, Rice, Canola, Sorghum, Beef, Dairy, Poultry, Swine, Cover Crops, Ag Policy, Precision Agriculture, Organic Row Crops, Irrigation, Timber, Marketing, Agribusiness, Lending
By Cover Crops
Published Sep 14, 2018
It's a fact: cover crops tend to make good farmers into great farmers and average farmers into bad farmers. Cover crops work. But, management is key and the learning curve can be steep. If you've been sitting on the sidelines in the past but are interested in jumping on the cover crop bandwagon, don't be intimidated... As I explained in “On the Offensive with Cover Crops”, at 70 degrees, 100% of soil moisture is used by crops while, at 95 degrees, only 15% of soil moisture is available...
Categories: Cover Crops
Published Jan 29, 2019
If you’re a farmer, at some point you’ll likely experience a late harvest, whether it’s due to Mother Nature or an equipment problem. And if you plan on seeding your cover crops after your crops are off, you have the added challenge of trying to get them seeded in a timely manner. Depending on how late it gets, you may wonder whether it’s even worth seeding them at all. It leads to the question: Is it ever too late to seed cover crops?The short answer: It depends... ”Grazed T-Raptor (brassica) and wheat cover crop mixture in Belle Mina, Ala...
Categories: Cover Crops
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... In a presentation for the 2019 Practical Farmers of Iowa Annual Conference, Mauck explained that when he grew wheat in 7...
Published Jun 4, 2018
Traditional agricultural skills that made civilization possible are still alive and in use today. At the same time, hundreds of farm technician job listings across the US, and the rise of precision agriculture and software, clearly evidence the need for technologically-savvy farm technicians in the 21st century agricultural industry. It’s no surprise that tech-friendly millennials interested in farming are encouraged by these developments, which may make farming less labor intensive than in generations past... ” As such, Joel explained, through his work with farm interns, he “spends a lot of time with 25 year-olds teaching them how to use a shovel, even though they can drive a tractor just fine... ” As Joel explained, these obstacles “keep many would-be farmers from being successful, because most of us hate paperwork and just want to farm...
Business Title: Cornelius
Job Title: Crop Consultant
Interests:
Corn, Soybeans, Crop Protection, Crop Scouting, Fertility, Soil Health, Sustainable Agriculture, Precision Agriculture, Ag Commentary, News, Agribusiness, Ag Policy, Farm Management, Cover Crops
Business Title: ISU Extension
Job Title: Farmer, Landowner, Extension Agent Or University Employee
Interests:
Corn, Soybeans, Beef, Feed, Grass-Fed Livestock, Apps, Precision Agriculture, Telemetry, Ag Commentary, News, Accounting and Bookkeeping, Operating a Farm, Cover Crops, NRCS, Horses
Interests: Corn, Cotton, Peanuts, Soybeans, Wheat, Vegetables, Rice, Canola, Sorghum, Beef, Dairy, Poultry, Cover Crops, Precision Agriculture, Organic Row Crops, Vigna Subterranea
About: Visit us at Agrilend.co The problem with traditional Agricultural Lending is beyond Portfolio Theory, Diversification, Credit or Operational Risk, as well as Financial Servicing Capacity to service debt obligations in unpredictable markets predicated by supply and demand. Agrilend.co pools international currency in USA Agribusiness with international digital currencies through MERCOSUR
Interests:
Corn, Cotton, Peanuts, Soybeans, Wheat, Vegetables, Rice, Canola, Sorghum, Beef, Dairy, Poultry, Swine, Cover Crops, Ag Policy, Precision Agriculture, Organic Row Crops, Irrigation, Timber, Marketing, Agribusiness, Lending
By Cover Crops
Published Sep 14, 2018
It's a fact: cover crops tend to make good farmers into great farmers and average farmers into bad farmers. Cover crops work. But, management is key and the learning curve can be steep. If you've been sitting on the sidelines in the past but are interested in jumping on the cover crop bandwagon, don't be intimidated... As I explained in “On the Offensive with Cover Crops”, at 70 degrees, 100% of soil moisture is used by crops while, at 95 degrees, only 15% of soil moisture is available...
Categories: Cover Crops
Published Jan 29, 2019
If you’re a farmer, at some point you’ll likely experience a late harvest, whether it’s due to Mother Nature or an equipment problem. And if you plan on seeding your cover crops after your crops are off, you have the added challenge of trying to get them seeded in a timely manner. Depending on how late it gets, you may wonder whether it’s even worth seeding them at all. It leads to the question: Is it ever too late to seed cover crops?The short answer: It depends... ”Grazed T-Raptor (brassica) and wheat cover crop mixture in Belle Mina, Ala...
Categories: Cover Crops
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... In a presentation for the 2019 Practical Farmers of Iowa Annual Conference, Mauck explained that when he grew wheat in 7...
Published Jun 4, 2018
Traditional agricultural skills that made civilization possible are still alive and in use today. At the same time, hundreds of farm technician job listings across the US, and the rise of precision agriculture and software, clearly evidence the need for technologically-savvy farm technicians in the 21st century agricultural industry. It’s no surprise that tech-friendly millennials interested in farming are encouraged by these developments, which may make farming less labor intensive than in generations past... ” As such, Joel explained, through his work with farm interns, he “spends a lot of time with 25 year-olds teaching them how to use a shovel, even though they can drive a tractor just fine... ” As Joel explained, these obstacles “keep many would-be farmers from being successful, because most of us hate paperwork and just want to farm...
Published Jul 1, 2019
With May 2018 to April 2019 being the wettest 12-month period on record, according to NOAA, many farmers across the nation were forced to delay planting. In fact, for the first time on record, less than half of corn was planted by May 19, says the USDA. Even by June 2, “both corn and soybean planting were proceeding at a record slow pace. ”For those with cover crops, these wet conditions likely affected their termination plans, causing some to debate whether they should terminate before or after planting... As explained in “Planting Green 101: Penn State Research Summary,” planting green doesn’t usually require special attachments, but having row cleaners can help...
Categories: Cover Crops
Published Apr 20, 2018
The Intelligent Investor, a book by Benjamin Graham, is widely considered to be the best book on value investing ever written. The book (and it's author) had a profound effect on the way people think about investing. Graham was extremely influential to many titans in the world of investing. ... Buffett has explained compounding using a vivid image of rolling a wet snowball down a really long snowy hill...
Published Apr 14, 2018
Technology has been an integral part of agriculture since at least 5,000 years ago, documented through the use of ploughs in ancient Sumeria. Today, drone and GPS farming is old news. Still, some in the industry are unsure of the latest development to disrupt agriculture. From Chinese pork to Mexican mangoes, blockchain technology is already fostering direct marketing, improving traceability for compliance, reducing waste, and increasing profit margins... 21st Century Farmers Increase Revenues with Smart(er) ContractsUp until now, as Edwin explained, globalization has allowed massive corporations to leverage their economies of scale and “push the small and medium-scale producers and processors” out of local markets, both in the US and abroad...
By Pat Rogers
Published Jan 24, 2018
In the past few years, we have made a concerted effort to increase the usage of cover crops and other conservation practices on our farm. I have learned a lot of lessons from this experience but one stands out above the rest. Being a good steward of the environment and aiming to produce high yields don’t have to be mutually exclusive. In fact, I would argue that if intensively managed, conservation practices should significantly enhance yields... Cover crops’ ability to take a good crop yield and make it great can be explained by considering the framework of something known as Liebig’s Law of Minimum, which can be summarized as “If one of the critical nutrients or soil conditions is deficient, plant growth will be limited even if all other critical nutrients and soil conditions are abundant...
Categories: Cover Crops
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... In a 2018 Iowa Learning Farms (ILF) webinar, she explained that researchers first confirmed that rye can host several pathogens, including:Fusarium graminearum — which causes several diseases, including stalk rot and ear rot of corn, head scab of wheat, etc...
Categories: Corn, Cover Crops
Updated Aug 1, 2020
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... Soil structureThe structure can clearly be explained as the arrangement of the different particles that make up the soil and the distribution of air space between the particles...
Categories: Corn
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