Russell

Then there’s the soil test. The results are often a mix of numbers for nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium. The suggested remedy are three different products to fix those … Read more

Standing in the garden aisle with a sack of 10-10-10 fertilizer in my hand is a certain type of panic. The promise on label is … Read more

Most folks consider fertilizer an ingredient that you add to garden or fields like you would salt a soup, expecting it to work well. This … Read more

There is a certain sort of worry when you buy fertilizer in tons. You are standing in the supplier’s yard with a clipboard in your … Read more

Nitrogen becomes this magical “on/off” button for most pasture owners. You throw down one broadcast application in the spring and assume you’re covered for the … Read more

At harvest time, I know there’s another type of crop dissapears: seeing stunted corn in the yield monitor when you were counting on big yields. … Read more

Start with a realistic yield goal. If you expects to harvest 75 bushels per acre, or maybe 90 in good years, that’s a good place … Read more

The “number” (pure live seed, or PLS) is a factor in whether your lawn looks like sea of green or a checkerboard of bare spots, … Read more

Here’s what happens: When it comes time to make hay, you have a dilemma common to all farmers. There’s a bagful of fertilizer sitting in … Read more

The scenario is a raised bed that seems far too big. There is a packet of radish seed. You picture it now: a sea of … Read more

When you start with a bag of beet seeds and a vague sense of where they go, the calculator do the math to turn that … Read more