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Pre-harvest demands planning, rigorous maintenance and a sharp focus on ensuring your equipment is ready to go for a successful, efficient and safe harvest.

Lower commodity prices tend to focus our attention on the expense side of the balance sheet. But keeping a close eye on costs always is a good idea. One approach is to ensure each input delivers the best return possible.

After buying a high-yielding racehorse hybrid, you wouldn’t head to the field before checking your planter’s settings. It makes sound economic and agronomic sense to stick with the same logic when it comes to your fertility program.

Whether side dress is part of your planned fertility program or a new consideration driven by this year’s weather, choose the best equipment to get the job done right.

Well-known agronomists Brian and Darren Hefty are our guest bloggers for this post. In this blog post, Brian and Darren discuss how to make plant tissue analysis useful and how it can help improve your fertility program.

As grain bins for on-farm storage popped up like crops during spring in recent years, they brought improved marketing options and reduced commercial storage costs. They also shifted more grain quality responsibility to the producer.