Seed Recommendation & Planning
Buying the Right Seed for the Right Field!
There is more to buying seed than planting last years plot winner. What thoughts do you have when you’re looking for seed? Is it last years plot winner? Do you look at only plots? Do you plant what you have had success with in the past? This is the formula that Randy Lopau, FCA's Seed Specialist uses to make his seed recommendations for the benefit of FCA's seed customers.
- R7 – The Right Soils
- What soil properties make it productive?
- Managing the water to yield potential relationship in corn
- Tillage systems and yield potential
- R7 – The Right Genetics
- Matching genetic background to environment
- Hybrid characteristics required for very high yield environments
- R7 – The Right Traits
- Role of biotech traits in achieving very high yield potential
- Lessons learned from Answer Plot research
- R7 – The Right Population
- Hybrid response to population
- Row spacing
- R7 – The Right Rotation
- Crop rotation effect on yield potential
- Rethinking the corn/soybean rotation
- R7 – The Right Plant Nutrition
- Matching nutrient applications to yield potential
- Elemental Prominence and NutriSolutions – A new approach to nutrient management
- R7 – The Right Crop Protection
- Weed management strategies and yield potential
- What role do fungicides play in achieving very high yields
- Always bet on the pests – how do we limit their impact?
