Tag: Soybeans

Use Climate FieldView Prime to Bring Weather, Scouting and Basic Data into One Place

By Nora Schultz, Sales Agronomist, CCA How do you manage things like rainfall and scouting on your farm? What about data management? Or that pesky weather event known as hail? All growers wrestle with how to best manage these areas but our partnership with Climate FieldView allows us to help bring all of this information…

Tight Crop Input Dollars Will Increase Need to Carefully Manage Foliar Fungicide

By Nora Schultz, Sales Agronomist, CCA “To spray or not to spray?” This is one of the most common questions throughout the Corn Belt in mid-summer. Crop prices will make it more important than ever to actively manage each foliar fungicide application to get the biggest bang for your buck. Begin scouting high risk fields…

Track Hail with Climate FieldView

Spring is Time for Bad Weather Of all the diverse weather the Midwest experiences throughout the year, hail can be the most difficult to track. Its irregular nature can leave one field extensively damaged while its neighbor across the road shows barely a bruise. According to University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 50% of hail storms occur from…

Start Your Season Off Right by Optimizing Planting

To achieve maximum yield from every bag of seed make sure to manage the factors at planting that can affect yield performance. SOYBEANS Both ISU and UNL have shown yield benefits in earlier planted soybeans. If you break Nebraska and Iowa into thirds North to South, optimum planting time for soybeans begins the last week…

Herbicide Notification Signs Available

Changes in Herbicide Traits Here at Jacobsen our dedication is your success. That means we are with you from planting to harvest, and everything in between. One of the most important items that lands “in between” is herbicide applications to your crop. There are a wide variety of herbicide tolerant traits in the fields around…

Achieve Full Yield Potential And Weed Control With Liberty Link Technology

By Nora Schultz, Sales Agronomist, CCA For those growers with glyphosate resistance and are looking for a broad spectrum replacement, look no further than Liberty herbicide. Liberty (glufosinate) is the only non-selective herbicide with no known resistance. he trait can be found in U.S. crops such as soybeans, corn, cotton and canola. Liberty has a…

Palmer Amaranth: Watch for this New Threat in the Field.

Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) is a aggressive member of the pigweed family that is native to the southwestern United States. Its spread northward has been increasingly monitored, but 2016 saw a large surge in northern populations.