By Fred Nichols
Chief Marketing Officer,
Bio Huma Netics®, Inc.
If the TV show MythBusters ever did a program on farming, there are several common myths about farmers they could bust. [Read more…]
This Week in Ag #15
May 23, 2023 by
By Fred Nichols
Chief Marketing Officer,
Bio Huma Netics®, Inc.
“Your rows sure are straight.” Those may have been the most pride-filling words I ever heard. They were first spoken to me by one of my landlords, Orville Larson, the spring after my dad passed away and all farming operations fell entirely on me. Orville made a habit of driving out to his farm to see how things looked. He stopped in to see me the day he checked on his crops, and those were the first words he spoke. That same day, I received the same compliment from my dad’s best friend, who was regarded statewide as one of the top farmers in Illinois. That’s when I knew I was a farmer. [Read more…]
This Week in Ag #11
April 25, 2023 by
By Fred Nichols
Chief Marketing Officer,
Bio Huma Netics, Inc.
You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but you can judge seed products by their bag covers. There’s lots of telling information on them. Just look at this bag of seeds going on my farm. The bag itself prominently features the brand name and logo (AgriGold), type of product (corn), the actual product name (A647-79VT2PRO) and weight (61 lbs. in this bag). Seed corn bags contain 80,000 kernels. The heavier the bag, the heavier the weight per kernel. While there are studies suggesting no link between final yield and the weight of the seed, many successful farmers ardently believe this to be true and prefer heavier seeds. Each bag also contains a tag that provides specific information that farmers will want to record. [Read more…]