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Cover more ground
by Lynn Grooms
As farm operations become larger, more producers are investing in their own application equipment. Economies of scale are in their favor. With competition...
Den's Doorstep
Don't take your eye off the ball
Den Gardner
Those who have played baseball or softball have often heard the sage old advice from their coach as they stood in the batter's box: Don't take your eye...
Applied Perspective
Information security
by Lance Hayden Guest columnist
Working as an intelligence officer taught me a lot about the value of information. I learned that information owners are usually not the ones who assign...
Customer Knowledge
Smarter than you think
by Bill Keogh
Did you ever watch the show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? The most interesting feature of this show was the so-called lifelines. When the contestants...
From The Top
FROM THE TOP
An interview with Dr. Scott Fleetwood, vice president of North American Sales and Marketing for Nitragin and Marketing for Nitragin, Milwaukee, WI....
Customer First
Set the hook and reel them in
by June Van Klaveren
It costs up to five times more to get a new customer than it does to retain a present one. We can expand our services to existing customers, which will...
Focus Report
What's new in corn herbicides
BASF Corporation Contact: 919/547-2147 Bayer CropScience Contact: 919/549-2000 Dow AgroSciences Contact: 317/337-7637 The company introduces WideMatch...
Articles
Skyrocketing seed sales
by Lynn Grooms
In 2000, Cache River Valley Seed in Cash, AR, built a seed plant capable of producing 1.5 million units a year. Randy Woodard, the company's co-owner...
Insecticide solutions
by Natalie Knudsen
If you're confused about options for controlling corn insects, you're not alone. Today's choices include soil-applied granular and liquid insecticides,...
The control maze
by Natalie Knudsen
Retailers and corn growers face an ever-growing array of insect control products with varying claims for control of insects and disease. Helping your...
Glyphosate strategies for corn
by Natalie Knudsen
With more than 96% of U.S. soybean acres planted to glyphosate-resistant soybeans, can glyphosate-resistant corn acres be far behind? The answer seems...
From both sides of the fence
by Natalie Knudsen
Every retailer has an opinion about glyphosate-resistant corn and its use and place in the cropping system. Dave Bell, an agronomist from Central Coop...
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