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

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