Big Yield News

Although it’s still mid-season for the 2016 corn crop, The Farm Research Center in Garden City, Mo., has already been planning for future crop years. Namely, our staff this week has focused on corn hybrid development work. A single corn plant yields tassels, which are the male anatomy of the plant, to produce pollen that will fertilize corn ears, which …

To continue our email series about micronutrients, this week we turn to molybdenum. Our Yield Booster product supplies sodium molybdate as a molybdenum source. You may recall from past emails that Yield Booster combines a 12-9-6 fertilizer analysis with seven vital micronutrients: boron, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, sodium molybdate and zinc. Molybdenum influences a plant’s nitrogen status. Specifically, molybdenum generates …

With the rain that we and our growers had earlier in the season, we’ve seen and heard about weeds posing a big challenge. In some cases, we’ve had farmers replanting due to strong weed pressure. This spring, we at BigYield.us have experimented with managing weeds using a Red Dragon row crop burner. Burners use a propane torch to create heat that …

Like we’ve shared in several recent newsletters, we at BigYield.us view supplementing micronutrient levels as a potential strategy to maximize yields. Limited micronutrient supplies may prevent crops from taking full advantage of otherwise favorable environmental conditions and achieving their yield potential. Yield Booster from BigYield.us adds seven vital micronutrients – boron, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, sodium molybdate and zinc – to …