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Control Technologies Aim for One Weed at a Time

By Dave Kanicki posted on September 5, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance, Precision Ag Sales & Service
There’s just no winning with weeds. If we don’t kill them, they’ll choke out our crops and devastate yields. In earlier days, we removed them by labor intensive hoeing and cultivating. More recently we started spraying herbicides to control them. Unfortunately, this unwanted vegetation figured out how to beat the most common of the weed killers being used, leaving us with as big of a problem, we had before we started spraying.
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Nozzle Selection Governs Sprayer Performance

By Erdal Ozkan posted on September 5, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance, Precision Ag Sales & Service
Nozzles are typically the least costly items on a sprayer, but they are key to the final outcome from a spraying job: achieving maximum efficacy from the pesticide applied while reducing the off-target (drift) movement of pesticides to a minimum. Pesticides work well if the rates on labels are achieved during application. This can be achieved only if the right nozzle type and the proper size of the nozzles are on the sprayer — and the sprayer is operated properly.
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Growers Find Individual Nozzle Control Saves Inputs with Precision Application

By Dan Crummett posted on September 5, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance, Precision Ag Sales & Service
Richard Preston says his Kentucky grain farm represents the “worst-case scenario” for efficiently and responsibly spraying chemicals. His fields are located between creeks and timber and back up to ever-growing residential areas near Elizabethtown, Ky.
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Developments in Site-Specific Management & VR Sprayers

By Dan Crummett and Dave Kanicki posted on September 5, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance, Precision Ag Sales & Service
The “precision placement of chemicals” and “consistent application within a targeted coverage” area that Ken Giles spoke of 5 years ago is a reality today, and is often referred to as “site-specific management” or, in some cases, “variable-rate application."
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Take Care of Basics Before Adopting New Sprayer Developments

By Dave Kanicki posted on September 5, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance, Precision Ag Sales & Service
While aerial application of pesticides is still utilized extensively, on-the-ground sprayers continue to gain favor for applying crop chemicals. In all likelihood, their use will continue to expand, especially with the introduction of newer precision technologies with the capability to reduce chemical usage through site-specific application methods.
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What’s Trending in Ag Application Technology?

Developments in applying crop nutrients and pesticides have come fast and furious during the last decade. Many of the newest breakthroughs are aimed at ‘site-specific’ management of inputs, nozzles and individual nozzle control, and soil applications.
By Dave Kanicki posted on September 5, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance, Precision Ag Sales & Service
“We’ve been diverted from innovation for a while in the spray industry as we tackled spray drift issues,” says Ken Giles, University of California-Davis professor of agricultural engineering. “In the next 10 years, the focus is going to shift from drift reduction to precision placement of chemicals. We’re going to focus on targeted coverage and how consistent application can be within that targeted coverage.”
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Making a Case for Curbing Spending on Inputs

Few signs point to a recovery in crop prices in the near term, which is making it imperative growers find ways to hold down costs.
By Dave Kanicki posted on September 5, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance, Precision Ag Sales & Service
As the industry downturn is well into its third year, producers are now taking an even harder look at minimizing the use, and thus the cost, of crop inputs like fertilizers and pesticides, wherever possible without sacrificing crop yields. The quest to reduce inputs without giving up crop productivity presents dealers and manufacturers with opportunities to work closely with their farm customers to improve everyone’s bottom line.
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Can Application Technologies Reduce Ag Input Costs?

Three years of low grain prices are forcing farmers to minimize production costs. Developments in how they apply inputs will be an important part of growers’ cost cutting.
By Farm Equipment Staff posted on September 5, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance, Precision Ag Sales & Service
Proper placement of seeds in the soil is considered by many to be the single most critical step in producing high yielding row crops. This is because success with planting operations sets the stage for everything that takes place with the crop afterward.
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Ensuring the Accuracy of Farmers' Data for Crop Insurance Reporting

August 24, 2016 | Posted in Best Practices, Precision Ag Sales & Service
Scott Meldrum, integrated solutions manager for Van Wall Equipment, shares that about 40% of crop insurance policies have an error in them that would cause that policy to fail an audit. Meldrum talks about how Van Wall ensures their customers' policies are not in the 40%. Van Wall Equipment earned top honors in Farm Equipment's 2016 Dealership of the Year program.
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