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Sometimes, it’s simply amazing how much the world can change in less than one year. I thought about this fact this past summer while looking around the fairgrounds in Bloomington, IL, where this year’s Midwest AG Industries Exposition (MAGIE) was being held. Back in 2015, exhibitors and attendees at MAGIE were down but resolved. The…

By Joe Dedman With increasingly unpredictable weather, new seed varieties and consistent pressure to increase yields, growers will more often be considering the health of their soil as a way to produce better quality crops and greater yields in 2017. Having spent half of my life in the fields and the other half as a…

This growing season has certainly been a challenging one from the very beginning. Many farmers faced disease, weeds, excessive moisture, and drought — all of which have impacted the quantity and quality of this fall’s harvest. A wide variety of diseases had an impact this season. Southern Rust, Gray Leaf Spot, Goss’s Bacterial Wilt, Diplodia,…

Check out this story about a North Dakota church turning 95-acres of soybeans into a real mission field.  Monty’s Plant Food Company is so grateful to have had the opportunity to supply Monty’s products to Trinity Lutheran over the last 4 year.  We hope to be apart of this great cause many years to come.…

This is the year that people should be going back to using micronutrients. After all, to open the door, you have to have the key. As a critical factor in regulating enzyme and hormone balance within a plant, micronutrients are that lock and key mechanism. “They’ve laid off (micronutrients) two years now … People are…

Usually, the last cutting of the season is not as tall, thick, or healthy as your first or second cuttings. Monty’s Hay-Now program is designed to address these issues by boosting the quality of your final cut by stimulating the growth of the plants, increasing hay nutrients, and providing higher feed value for animals. Maximize your last cut this…

Trash, stover, residue — while post-harvest debris has taken different names throughout the years, it is now posing new threats and challenges. Growers will agree today’s higher plant populations, conservation tillage practices and better yielding, more-resistant stacked hybrids can benefit profitability, productivity and crop performance. However, these progressive practices create more field residue than ever before. Farmers are all…