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Not every product will deliver a positive ROI. But some will and are worth trying out on your farm this season, especially if you’re planting early soybeans, says Kris Ehler, a sales agronomist.
In addition to planting soybeans early and applying fungicide, Dan Vogel puts on the appropriate amount of nutrients for the given year, instead of trying to bank nutrients or apply a two-year spread.
When Don Morse began growing cover crops, one of his main goals was to tackle the growing populations of marestail and waterhemp that defied traditional control measures. Today, he uses cereal rye across 3,100 acres of corn and soybeans.
Limestone is a cost-effective input, often yielding the highest ROI when correcting soil pH by improving crop yields, nutrient uptake, weed control and herbicide persistence.
