03/17/2022

It was in the mid-1990s that Chad Gripp was faced with some tough choices: Was there a future for him in farming? “Most of our farm equipment was at least 20 years old,” he remembers. “And our farm wasn’t big enough to also support me when I would be graduating from Illinois State.” But Gripp […]

02/28/2022

Lewis Stearns, an agronomist and farmer in Northwest Ohio, says handling heavy corn residue before planting soybeans is key to getting them planted early. And getting the beans in the ground early is key to higher yields. “Early-planting for soybeans trumps most everything else in terms of yield benefit,” says Stearns. “You can expect a […]

Concerns over high fertilizer prices continue to mount among corn growers across the U.S. as prep for the 2022 planting season intensifies. Editors for Pro Farmer report that Iowa Attorney General (AG) Tom Miller is directing Iowa State University agriculture economist John Crespi, director of ISU’s Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, to conduct an […]

02/17/2022

“…significant residue reduction and up to 100 pounds more NPK…” Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 17, 2022 – As fertilizer prices hit record highs, one company is helping farmers claw back nutrients they already bought with a new patent-pending, fast-acting biological to break down residue and release more nutrients for next season’s crop. “Results show significant residue reduction inside […]

02/08/2022

Drive yields with Revline Hopper Throttle In-furrow Soybean prices surged this week. Combined with higher nitrogen prices, that could push soybean acres higher in 2022, but opinions on that do vary. “Right now you have a wide range of estimates, and it’s early,” Chip Nellinger of Blue Reef Agri-Marketing told AgWeb. “Usually, we haven’t seen […]

Meristem Crop Performance Group and Talc USA, (www.TalcUSA.com), have joined forces in a strategic product development agreement focused on using Talc USA’s world-class talc-graphite seed fluency platform to deliver a wide-range of new in-furrow products to boost crop performance and reduce crop nutrition costs. “We started working with Talc USA about a year ago and […]

02/02/2022

Meristem Crop Performance, Columbus, Ohio and McKillip Seeds, Wabash, Ind., today announced a new dealership agreement to serve farmers in Northcentral Indiana. Under the new relationship, McKillip Seeds will carry the Meristem Crop Performance product line and become Meristem’s ally in bringing new, innovative crop inputs to Indiana farmers to help them increase yields and […]

01/31/2022

Meristem Crop Performance Group, LLC and Lowell Schardt of The Seed Source, Inc., Wayne, Neb., announced a new dealership agreement to serve farmers in Nebraska. Under the new relationship, Lowell and his staff of The Seed Source will carry the Meristem Crop Performance product line and become Meristem’s ally in helping Nebraska farmers make the […]

01/24/2022

Columbus, Oh., Jan. 20, 2022 — Meristem Crop Performance Group, LLC (www.meristemag.com) and Caleb Oxendale of Oxendale Ag, LLC today announced a new dealership agreement to serve farmers in Northwest Indiana. Under the new relationship, Oxendale Ag will carry the Meristem Crop Performance product line and become Meristem’s ally in helping Indiana farmers make the […]

-Farm Bureau Economists While different groups squabble over the root cause – tariffs, weather, demand, lack of competition – the net effect is prices for NPK that are double or triple what they were just a year ago, according to economists at the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF). “Unfortunately, the fertilizer sticker price farmers in […]