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5 Things to Consider When Starting Variable-Rate

November 20, 2016 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Soil Health, Water Management

Variable-rate seeding, or VRS, is the practice of dynamically adjusting the amount of seeds planted in areas of fields based on location-specific information on fertility and other factors that affect yield.

Is Poor Weather Taking A Toll On No-Tilled Corn?

Poor planting and crop growing weather may have as much to do with a decline in no-till corn acres as anything else.

By Frank Lessiter posted on December 1, 1999 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Ask Terry Schneider about the problems holding back the growth of no-till corn and he’ll tell you it’s been a lack of favorable weather conditions during most of the 90s.

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