Mistakes have led to more than one production practice that has paid off on our farm. Replanting hailed out crops resulted in our current twin-row planting strategy and a load of fertilizer I couldn’t send back helped us achieve soybean crops capable of winning yield contests. In fact, in three out of the last five years I’ve had the highest yields for the local Pioneer yield contest and one of those years I won the territory. No-till wasn’t an accident, but some unintended lessons helped prove it was the right fit for our farm.

Nearly every grower would like more grain in the bin at harvest, and for most there’s always a burning question at the end of the season — did they leave something on the table?

When the oppertunity presented itself, Carrol Wyss went after a new market to make a few extra dollars. What he also found was that the changes he would need to make to control weeds were probably better for his farm.

Dicamba-, 2,4-D-, ALS- and HPPD-inhibitor-tolerant crops are the next innovations rolling out of the technology pipeline for in-plant weed control.