“Free” Options for More Bushels
Feb 12, 2025
There’s “free” money out there, in the form of more bushels per acre, when weeds are effectively controlled from the start.
Your Federated Agronomists are laser focused on helping you squeeze very bushel possible out of your 2025 crops – because bushels matter. And since there are fixed costs from day one on the farm, and “you are going to spend the money,” said Kevin Carlson, Federated’s agronomy sales manager, “you might as well do it right!”
Your agronomist’s mantra, to “start clean and stay clean” means “we spray on time and protect as much as possible,” said Carlson. Keeping weed pressure out is critical. “Weeds consume the moisture and nutrients the crop needs, which is detrimental to yield,” he said.
Waiting to spray until the weeds are bigger in counterintuitive to keeping fields clean. “When the weeds are small, spray them,” Carlson advised. There will be very little impact to yield if the weeds are dealt with early on.
As a farmer himself, Carlson said, “I like to [first] see my stand of corn, and then, knowing I have my stand, I get out and spray herbicides, and protect my yield potential.” He also noted, “Corn doesn’t like competition, and the weeds will consume the fertilizer that you applied for the corn!”
Getting herbicides at work on the weeds early is a “free” way to protect yield potential, a.k.a. the number of bushels per acre. Consider impregnating your dry fertilizer with a pre-emerge herbicide, a service available at the Ogilvie and Albertville locations; the herbicide gets a “free” ride with the fertilizer.
In your crop management choices are several “free” options to protect yield potential and maximize ROI. Let your Federated Agronomist help you make the most
Your Federated Agronomists are laser focused on helping you squeeze very bushel possible out of your 2025 crops – because bushels matter. And since there are fixed costs from day one on the farm, and “you are going to spend the money,” said Kevin Carlson, Federated’s agronomy sales manager, “you might as well do it right!”
Your agronomist’s mantra, to “start clean and stay clean” means “we spray on time and protect as much as possible,” said Carlson. Keeping weed pressure out is critical. “Weeds consume the moisture and nutrients the crop needs, which is detrimental to yield,” he said.
Waiting to spray until the weeds are bigger in counterintuitive to keeping fields clean. “When the weeds are small, spray them,” Carlson advised. There will be very little impact to yield if the weeds are dealt with early on.
As a farmer himself, Carlson said, “I like to [first] see my stand of corn, and then, knowing I have my stand, I get out and spray herbicides, and protect my yield potential.” He also noted, “Corn doesn’t like competition, and the weeds will consume the fertilizer that you applied for the corn!”
Getting herbicides at work on the weeds early is a “free” way to protect yield potential, a.k.a. the number of bushels per acre. Consider impregnating your dry fertilizer with a pre-emerge herbicide, a service available at the Ogilvie and Albertville locations; the herbicide gets a “free” ride with the fertilizer.
In your crop management choices are several “free” options to protect yield potential and maximize ROI. Let your Federated Agronomist help you make the most