Summer has a way of bringing a much needed refresh: a new crop planted, empty manure pits, and for us, a new group of college students joining our team. The 2023 intern class will be found serving our agronomy customers through scouting-based services. With their fresh ideas and passion for the agriculture industry, we’re excited to have this young talent on our team.More
Surely, most farmers might cringe at the sight of volunteer corn in their soybean fields, but they may not think of it as impacting their bottom line. The problem of volunteer corn can
be looked at from two different angles: weed and insect management. Let us explore both topics and unpack the economics behind them.More
Pro: reduce weed pressure. Con: soil nitrogen may be tied up. Pro: reduce soil erosion. Con: potential for allelopathy. Pro: increase organic matter. Con: increased insect pressure. We could pro-con list cover crops all day with their potential for both positive and negative impacts. Which leads to the need for some perfecting of their management even though this conservation practice was introduced in American agriculture in the 1860s (White, 2014).
Joining the Stutsman team as our new seed manager fits right in line with Grant Maurer’s career experience. From working in a seed warehouse to precision agriculture, Grant’s experience has only added to the agricultural foundation he had growing up on his family’s farm in Wilton, Iowa.More
On February 1, 2023, ProVantage growers and advisors participated in the annual meeting to go over the 2022 crop year. For the last 10 years of the ProVantage program’s existence, the annual meeting serves as a connection point for the group to comb through growing season data from the tens of thousands of southeast Iowa acres currently enrolled in the program. This anonymous pool of field performance data allows us to extract themes and outcomes that lead to informed decision-making for the upcoming crop production year.More
In our quest to find ways growers can continually maximize the value of their fertilizer applications, we are constantly evaluating products on the market that aim to do just that. One of the most recent fertilizer additives currently under our review and slated for our own trials is Trivar®, the first product designed for broadcast phosphorus application to help prevent tie-up. Although still too early to report on our own findings, we thought we’d share some information on what Trivar® is, what it does and how it benefits phosphorus applications.More
Hailing from West Liberty, our newest developmental sales agronomist, Evan Dalton hit the ground running and has been busy learning all the facets of our agronomy department since October 2022.More
For those of you that have been to our Hills facility this summer, you have probably noticed that we have had some construction congestion and noise going on. We made the decision during the fall of 2021 that we needed to update our dry fertilizer facility. While it was not an easy decision to tear down the facility that has served us so well for the last 50 years, we knew that changes had to be made to allow us to provide world-class customer service in the future.More
As the ProVantage advisor, Tyson Miller is responsible for all aspects of our ProVantage program as well as working directly with growers and the agronomy sales team to bring valuable insight from growers’ data.More
It was a meeting of all the dry-spreading equipment from our Hills and Wellman locations along with the fleet from K&B Ag in Fairfax. Driving by on that mid-September day, you might have wondered why there were so many machines in one field. However, if you looked closely, you’d notice the team of Stutsman employees conducting spread pattern testing or pan testing.More
