Planting with Confidence: 3 Key Risks and How to Navigate them in 2025
As the 2025 corn and soybean planting season approaches, uncertainty looms over growers across the Corn Belt. Unpredictable spring temperatures, evolving agronomic threats, ever-tightening profit margins and shifting acreage expectations make the timing of planting decisions more critical than ever. Making the “go or wait” decision on when to plant soybeans and corn is a […]
Predictive Agronomy Offers a Path to Greater Crop Resilience
By Dr. Kess Berg, Chief Innovation Officer, Advanced Agrilytics As the 2025 planting season approaches, producers across the Corn Belt prepare to face the annual battle with the one major factor in crop production they can’t control – Mother Nature. From waterlogged fields to unexpected droughts, the season’s success often hinges on how well a […]
Customer Conversations: Albert O’Connor
Near the town of Columbus, Indiana – noted for its collection of modern architecture – you’ll find Albert O’Connor’s farm. Albert, along with wife Kim and son Jake, farm approximately 2,500 acres of corn, soybeans and seed corn, and run a small herd of Simmental and Angus cattle – most of them destined to shine […]
Beyond Relief: Building Farm Resilience When Prices Are Low
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced that applications are now open for $10 billion in economic assistance to farmers impacted by low commodity prices, according to a recent article by Agriculture.com. While this relief may provide temporary support, the real challenge remains: how to build resilient operations that don’t just survive downturns but […]
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.
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 […]