AGRICULTURE & FARM NEWS
Making The Most Of Your Herbicides
Controlling weeds is becoming a difficult and expensive task. A common assumption made when a group of weeds are not killed by a herbicide application is that the weeds are resistant. While weed herbicide resistance [...]
Are You Managing Water Efficiently?
Being from Missouri, interning with Crop Quest in Southwest Kansas was a huge change and learning experience for me, as the agriculture industry is completely different here from what I am used to! There was [...]
Late Season Plant Health Gives Important Clues to Crop Management Decisions
As we head toward the back end of the growing season, there are many clues we can look at to determine whether some of our management decisions this year paid off. Of course, Mother Nature [...]
Prevent Spider Mites, Don’t Fight Them
Spider mites, both the Banks Grass Mite and the Two-Spotted Spider Mite, thrive in hot and dry climates. With this being said, corn producers in southwest Kansas can almost count on finding mites in the [...]
Why The Sudden Interest In Corn Nitrogen Models?
Risk management appears to top the list of reasons. Weather causes uncertainty, which leads to questions about nitrogen movement. Nitrogen (N) losses and nitrogen use vary with the weather. Many areas this spring were wetter [...]
Potassium
One of the most challenging nutrients to manage for crop production in the Southern Plains is potassium. Many of our soils in this region are sandy and are derived from low potassium parent materials. It [...]