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Crop Production Tips

Apr 01, 2020

Tips to remember this April

With the extra challenge of the pandemic virus and resulting COVID-19, this Spring's planting season is on pace to be a crazy time for everyone trying to get a crop in the ground. Here are a few reminders of items to make sure you check off your list this April.

Get updated field maps to Ag Center
Take delivery of seed corn, alfalfa, and soybeans
Alfalfa and winter wheat stand assessments
Pre-plant weed control on your corn and soybean acres
Plant timely and accurately
Pop-up starter fertilizer applications with Ascend and zinc
Nitrogen treatments to minimize loss to volatization, leaching, and denitrification
Pasture fertilization

Read our agronomy update for operational changes being made due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Ken Jahnke

Division Sales Manager

Apr 24,2020

Is your alfalfa off to a good start for the season? Alfalfa in the area is breaking dormancy right now. Some of what you are seeing greening up in the field is dandelion and not alfalfa plants. It is important to scout your alfalfa fields to make sure the plants are off to a healthy start and that there are enough alfalfa plants there to obtain optimum yield. Other questions and concerns have come up: Will the recent snowfall, frost, and overall cold weather affect alfalfa plants that have already started to green up? Breaking dormancy occurs over a time frame of weeks and is not an instantaneous function.

Apr 20,2020

Weekly ACH Program - I'd like to introduce you to our Weekly Autopay Discount Program. In order to incentivize automatic payments from our members, we have established the following discount program for customers who enroll their accounts in our weekly ACH autopay. Members may enroll their accounts in our weekly ACH autopay at any time. Accounts enrolled in ACH autopay will have their future purchases automatically debited to their bank accounts via ACH (often called e-check) on the Friday following the week of purchase (example below).

Apr 13,2020

Tired of throwing around 50 lb bags of feed? Our Mini Bulk System is perfect for you!

Crop Production Tips

Apr 01, 2020

Tips to remember this April

With the extra challenge of the pandemic virus and resulting COVID-19, this Spring's planting season is on pace to be a crazy time for everyone trying to get a crop in the ground. Here are a few reminders of items to make sure you check off your list this April.

Get updated field maps to Ag Center

Take delivery of seed corn, alfalfa, and soybeans

Alfalfa and winter wheat stand assessments

Pre-plant weed control on your corn and soybean acres

Plant timely and accurately

Pop-up starter fertilizer applications with Ascend and zinc

Nitrogen treatments to minimize loss to volatization, leaching, and denitrification

Pasture fertilization

Read our agronomy update for operational changes being made due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Ken Jahnke

Division Sales Manager

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