Now that most of the crops are planted, it is time to start looking at some of the benefits that Ag Tech tools can provide by taking the guesswork out your irrigation and nitrogen side dress decisions to help you maximize your profitability.   

Finding a way to collect and analyze data on the farm is becoming more and more popular. Once captured, there are numerous ways that this data can be beneficial. This data can be used to help gain insights on a particular piece of ground that can be used to help make management d...

We are nearing the time of year where soon we will be making our final applications on the 2023 wheat crop. There are many decisions throughout the wheat growing season that impact the overall success of the crop but whether or not to apply wheat fungicide tends to be the last de...

Help maximize your nitrogen investment by protecting your side-dress and top-dress applications with nitrogen stabilizer. Whether your fertilizer program includes pre- or post-emergence applications of urea or UAN, all programs can be susceptible to nitrogen loss through ammonia ...

At Mid-West Fertilizer we have always focused on providing high-quality products for your soybean seed treatment needs. This year we will be offering a new product called Saltro, from Syngenta. This will be in addition to our previous lineup.

Crop hail is an additional risk management tool that can work with your Multi-Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) policy.  Crop hail is not a replacement to the MPCI policy but can help manage the risk for what is growing in your field to where your underlying MPCI policy starts to ...

It’s time to bust the myth once and for all that fungicides aren’t worth investing in. Research has continually shown yield advantages when a fungicide application is made. In fact, our Answer Plot® trials have consistently shown an average of more than 10 bushel ...

Diseases may already be showing up in your corn and soybean fields, so it’s a good time to be scouting your fields for early signs of trouble. With plenty of the season still left, your crop will benefit from a proactive approach to disease management. Here are six tips to ...

If you find your herbicides aren’t performing as well as they used to, you may be battling herbicide-resistant weeds. Once you have resistant weeds, it becomes much more challenging and costly to keep fields clean. With a diversified weed control program, you can level up y...

Weed competition can be one of the costliest threats to your crop’s performance. Adding adjuvants to your herbicide tank mix is an effective way to help enhance the performance of your spray application and improve weed control. Here are four adjuvant classes to discuss wit...

Research shows that fungicide application timing can significantly impact return on investment and, in some situations, two applications can be more profitable than one. So, when should you plan to target your applications, and does a multi-pass fungicide program make economic se...

Plant health is a lofty term that gets tossed around a lot in agronomic conversations. However, when you have a clear definition and actionable strategies, maximizing plant health becomes a very real and important way to help your crops reach closer to their genetic potential and...