by Dustin Hoffmann | Mar 26, 2024 | 5 Ag Stories, News
As the state house gets ready to wind down for the year, and tractors and farms get ready to wind up, we have decided to take a look at a few of the initiatives that the Iowa government looked at concerning agriculture policy. Two of those come right to the forefront,...
by Dustin Hoffmann | Mar 25, 2024 | 5 Ag Stories, News
We are getting ready for the 2024 growing season and the weather is giving us fits already. After an unseasonably warm winter, and really only about 10 days of actual bad weather, Mother Nature decided to release more winter as we enter the first full week of spring....
by Dustin Hoffmann | Mar 22, 2024 | 5 Ag Stories, News
Farmers start every growing season to grow the best crop they can and improve their yields year after year. Certainly, we can grow high-yielding crops, and in soybeans we turn heads the closer we get to those triple-digit yields. But what if you could grow over 200...
by Dustin Hoffmann | Mar 21, 2024 | 5 Ag Stories, News
Yesterday, I saw a tweet from an Iowa farmer showing the dry riverbed in a portion of the Cedar River, and that is not a good sign to start the year. If we were in an El Niño weather pattern like we supposedly have been, we should be seeing moisture, based on...
by Dustin Hoffmann | Mar 20, 2024 | 5 Ag Stories, News
Crop protection is a bigger business than the crops themselves. We are dependent on nothing more throughout the growing season. We worry about yield robbers like pests and weeds. Those other life forms survive by targeting our crops, and therefore our profits. And...
