By Bob Streit
Columist, Farm News
What Makes the Metalosate Products so Effective? Albion Plant Nutrition’s Metalosate® foliar fertilizers are an exclusive, patented range of chelated minerals specifically designed for foliar application on plants. They are unique because the minerals are chelated...
A quiet fact in the Ag world is that herbicides mostly function by chelating or tying up important minerals to shut down a plant process or enzyme system. The world’s most commonly used herbicide was first patented by a Stauffer physical chemist in 1974 as a mineral...
Tar Spot of Corn, tissue analysis-21 Enlarged Go HERE to get the file.
Bob and Allison, The corn tar spot analyses are attached. You sent 3 dried samples of corn leaves with tar spot. In preparation for analysis, these were ‘ground' in a kitchen blender and then separated into several subsamples based on size of particle as well as...
A New Source of Foliar Applied Minerals for Plants and in support of Plant Health. Our Solution | High Performance Foliar Nutrition Folia-IQ is a family of micronutrients designed for use in crops, using amino acid chelation and complexing technology. Foliar...
DISEASES OF CORN Tar Spot Tar spot of corn (caused by the fungus Phyllachora maydis) was first confirmed in the United States in 2015 on dent corn in seven counties in northwest Indiana and 10 counties in north-central Illinois. The disease was detected very late in...
Since 2015, tar spot has expanded its footprint from Illinois, Indiana, and other midwestern states and notably Nebraska, Georgia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania added confirmed fields this year. By MARGY ECKELKAMP October 26, 2021 In 2021 tar spot expanded its footprint...
LaNiña Could Spark Fire in Already Heated Markets by Bryce Knorr 2/21/22 North America Drought? Here are summer weather rally price targets for corn, SBs. Worries about war, tight supplies and high fertilizer prices provide plenty to ponder...
The Quest for 300 Bushel/A Corn Yield Oct 4, 2011 Some may use the marketing term 'stretch goal' when they talk about achieving 300 bushels per acre corn yield, but Dr. Fred Below, Univ of ILL crop physiology professor, knows it's possible and has outlined how to...
March has arrived and it came in like a lamb. What will the lion of late March look like? (Has anyone ever tracked the accuracy of that old axiom?) It has been nice to walk around outside without heavy clothing and insulated gloves. No snow or ice to navigate on the...