Have you noticed the value of used farm equipment? Tractors, particularly large row crop and midsized four wheel drive tractors, are selling for a huge premium to what they were just three years ago. A good farm economy and demand ...
Plant, spray and harvest. This phrase, introduced about ten years ago, defines a decade of production agriculture. It was a period of time where insect protection and herbicide tolerance were utilized to improve inefficiencies. This, along with GPS, has been ...
40 crops - that is the average number of years that a person is the primary operator of a farm unit. There may be more than 40, but this is the number that most of us will see. The early ...
Have you taken the leap of faith and started planting corn? My phone has been ringing off the hook with the question of, “Should I?” As a seedsman, I have very little concern about planting corn at this time. Soil temperatures ...
Recently, Informa released the spring planting intention report showing 95.5 million acres of corn or 3.6 million acres year over year. While we have all anticipated planted acres will increase, this is still considered a big number. It will take ...
As spring approaches and our friends to the south prepare to put seed in the ground, I wanted to say thank you. The launch of the Pfister brand has been a wonderful experience for everyone on our team. On behalf ...
I recently returned from our annual Pfister customer trip (Trip Photos: http://www.pfisterseeds.com/events-getaways). These few days are always the most educational part of the year for me. In our mission to be a resource to our customers, the trip gives me ...
Do farmland values give you indigestion? On one hand, we are all smiling about the increase in value on our holdings. But at the same time we may be scratching our heads about adding that new 160 acres at the ...
How many corn acres will we plant? Some estimates are as high as 95 million acres. The Central Corn Belt had a productive fall with corn stalks being worked and a lot of anhydrous being applied. That trend even spilled ...
Are input costs at all time highs? Some sources are estimating that the 2012 corn crop could be the most expensive crop we have ever produced. Although, fertilizer prices, including nitrogen, are not at the record highs of the 2008 ...
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