Interesting Agronomic Video’s to get you thinking early about 2012’s Cropping Practices

Happy New Year!!  I hope you all had a great Christmas and a happy and safe new year!!!

With the new year come planning our cropping systems & strategies for this years crops.  I stumbled upon the website www.agweb.com which has some really good videos regarding agronomics practices from tillage to technology.  Below I have added a couple favorites I found, just click on the link and it goes directly to he video on their website.

This video deals with: Sulfur deficiencies, corn standability & stalk rots, checking corn pollination,  finding compaction layers, dealing with corn residue, making sure you are running your inline deep ripper correctly.

http://www.agweb.com/farmjournal/farm_journal_corn_college/corn_college_tv2.aspx?channelId=6ac7d7d9b2294696bc45a4b218f2226f&channelListId&mediaId=89f8db8c83804377a07b4c32a8e8c6d0

This video deals with: using good record keeping along with your yield maps to achieve good yields, Corn physiology/maturity, diagnosing field issues pertaining to what planting speed does to your corn stand

http://www.agweb.com/farmjournal/farm_journal_corn_college/corn_college_tv2.aspx?channelId=6ac7d7d9b2294696bc45a4b218f2226f&channelListId&mediaId=63843eef79e84be38b71369c7c7583d4

This video deals with diagnosing if you are using your primary tillage correctly:

http://www.agweb.com/mobile/newsdetail.aspx?ArticleId=313494

Can you believe that McDonald’s has the best pro farmer ads out there??   Check out these video’s about  Potato, Beef, and Lettuce farmers.  I’ve got to admit watching these ads McDonalds makes me proud to be a farmers!  They just need a good hamburger and I might eat there!

Merry Christmas From Rosendale Farms & Waterloo Crop Services!

Merry Christmas form all the Employee’s from all the employee’s at Rosendale Farms & Waterloo Crop Services!   We wish you the very best during the holiday season, and remember to drive safe over the holiday season!

Corn Harvest is HERE!!

Corn harvest is upon us and yields are quite surprising (in a good way)!    After the drought we had in July (17mm or 0.67 inches for the whole month) we were all expecting to have yields under 100 bu/ac.  That being said there are some yields out there under 100 bu/ac but there are a lot  in the 150 bu/ac and even some around the 200 bu/ac range which is AWESOME!!!!!!  Now that the battle of getting soybeans off is finally over its time to get the corn off before the snow flies!!!   The frost free October helped some of the later planted corn make it to maturity and some of the longer season variety’s planted early make it to maturity.   P9910XR (a high yielding 2950 CHU variety) was planted outside of Bloomingdale & Guelph in early May and is coming off at 25% moisture and yielding between 150-200 bu/ac which GREAT considering the year we had.  Keep the combine rolling , and be safe out there!!!.   Below are some pictures I took of corn harvest, and a strange new Super Hero…Captain Pioneer!! Defender of High Yields!!!!