Meet Hannah Beck – Precision Ag Specialist
New Employee Spotlight: Hannah Beck A little about Hannah: I grew up on a farm in East Central Illinois, where we raised seed corn, soybeans, cattle, and show hogs. I recently graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Agronomy. I love spending time outdoors. Kayaking and hiking are two of my favorite activities when […]
Impatience During Spring Tillage Can be a Costly Mistake
Spring tillage season is almost upon us. And so starts the annual crunch that is corn and soybean planting time. Over the years, most farms have gotten larger and larger, but the number of days to work the fields hasn’t changed. So the pressure on growers to start spring field work earlier and earlier intensifies, […]
Advanced Agrilytics Names Chris Kallal Illinois Regional Agronomy Lead
Advanced Agrilytics Names Chris Kallal Illinois Regional Agronomy Lead Advanced Agrilytics™, a leading agricultural solutions provider, announced today Chris Kallal has joined the company as the Illinois Regional Agronomy Lead. Role with Advanced Agrilytics As a Regional Agronomy Lead at Advanced Agrilytics, Kallal plays a pivotal role in guiding and mentoring a team […]
The Ins and Outs of 2025: What’s Hot for Your Operation
Let’s dive into Advanced Agrilytics’ take on what’s in and what’s out for the year ahead.
4R Nutrient Stewardship Certification Benefits Grower Partners
Working with the Agribusiness Council of Indiana (ACI), Advanced Agrilytics is proud to announce it has achieved Year One certified status in Indiana’s 4R Nutrient Stewardship Certification Program. “Agribusiness Council of Indiana is pleased to see that Advanced Agrilytics understands that 4R nutrient management brings value to their growers and their community,” said ACI President […]
Get More P and K Performance for Your Money
Highlights Using outdated, traditional nutrient management recommendations leads to over-application of costly nutrients in some areas and under-application in other areas. This wastes money and leaves potential yield gain unrealized. Using traditional nutrient management methods and applying the same rate over the entire acre could result in an over-application of $30-$40 per acre. In a 1,000-acre […]
Five Things to Consider During Fall Fertility Planning
It’s that time of year again. The crops are maturing in the field, and corn and soybean farmers start thinking about their fall fertility planning. Along with mulling over the usual decisions of what inputs are needed, where, and at what rate, there is other, more sobering news for growers to contemplate this year. Farmers […]
Tar Spot: A Mid-Season “Watch Out!” for Late-Planted Corn
Editor’s Note: Our blog article this week comes from a recent conversation with Dan Emmert, Lead Agronomist with Advanced Agrilytics in Southwest Indiana. He reports that due to a wide range of planting dates for this year’s corn crop, there is a tremendous variety of agronomic issues growers are facing right now. Here are some of […]
Managing your Crop in a Shortened Growing Season
As we progress through the month of May, rainfall across much of the Corn Belt has slowed planting progression, putting pressure on all of us to not only get the crop in timely, but under some challenging conditions. As the threat of weather delays pushes planting closer to the end of May, this calls into […]
Solve for N – Managing Nitrogen and Sulfur for Highest ROI
A few weeks ago, we talked about managing nitrogen and sulfur at planting and how, using the lens of environment first, we structured our starter trials to manipulate the plant’s rate of growth in the first 35-40 days of the growing season. While the idea of increased nitrogen and sulfur at planting is not a […]