It seems like you can’t pick up a farm magazine anymore without seeing something about cover crops. It’s definitely a wave coming your way if it hasn’t reached you already. For me, it’s been fascinating to watch and learn about this new way of...
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As I settle back into farming after the Oshkosh Air Show last week and start to look ahead towards harvest, my little yield estimation gadget inside the AirScout platform becomes pretty handy. Back when I first started messing around with thermal...
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AirScout has a new “Data Partner Program!” I am excited to announce that we have established a relationship with a great company interested in paying you for the data generated from your fields. The combination of your imagery and data is...
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“Pay your money, place your bets.” That’s a phrase generally associated with betting on a horse race, but in this case, it’s time for us farmers, using our hindsight nitrogen program, to bet on this year’s crop. As much as I hate to...
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As farmers, we know how fast the weather can swing from being too dry to too wet, and vice versa. This year is shaping up to be no different. That being said, it’s still our job to manage this to the best of our abilities. With the heavy rains...
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Before you join in with my wife and tell me I need to work on my political-correctness skills, please understand that I LOVE my “Fat Kids.” You see, my fat kids are what I refer to as my healthiest, biggest, and most robust plants in my fields...
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It’s 94 degrees outside as I sit here in my office wondering how this may be affecting the start of this growing season. One thing for sure, is that we need to take into account the environment these plants are growing in before scouting...
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We are starting to get our first corn out of the ground here on our home farm! We planted the last day of April, with soil temps barely reaching 50 degrees, but the corn benefited from the warm weather that followed. I am now using my thermal...
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