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Corn Maturity and Drydown Rates
**This post was originally posted in September 2018 but has been updated to include 2021 data and weather conditions As we’ve gotten...
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Rachel Stevens
- Jun 16, 2021
- 2 min
Foliar Fungicides for Plant Health
We’ve talked a lot in past blogs about the importance of foliar fungicides, both in corn and beans. Most of these posts are about...
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Rachel Stevens
- May 19, 2021
- 2 min
Seed treatment protection window against early season insect pressure
It’s that time of year again---everything in our fields are changing so rapidly, it can be hard to keep up. One of those things that can...
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Rachel Stevens
- May 5, 2021
- 2 min
Early Season Weed Scouting and Herbicide Recommendations
Other than getting seeds in the ground, there is one other item at the top of our to do lists: keeping our fields clean and giving our...
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Rachel Stevens
- Apr 20, 2021
- 3 min
Steps to Reducing Early Season Stress
We all want the best possible start to our growing season and to get our crops off to a great start. That is the foundation of reaching...
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Rachel Stevens
- Apr 5, 2021
- 2 min
Plant your Soybeans Earlier in 2021
We’ve done studies across several years testing soybean planting date, all with the same theory in mind. By shifting our soybean planting...
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Rachel Stevens
- Mar 23, 2021
- 2 min
The Importance of Residual Herbicides
When we look at our price of inputs for all our crop acres, it can be tempting to try to find some ways to cut some corners. One of the...
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Rachel Stevens
- Mar 10, 2021
- 3 min
What's the Deal with Down Pressure?
With planting just around the corner, we wanted to spend some time in the next few weeks talking about some planting topics. First up...
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Rachel Stevens
- Feb 24, 2021
- 3 min
Reflecting on the Past Year
It’s hard to believe its been about a year since our worlds changed. February of last year, most of us were going about our lives,...
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Rachel Stevens
- Feb 9, 2021
- 3 min
Modes of Action--The important things you need to know.
We spend a lot of time picking out chemistries, selecting the best combinations of pre and post herbicides, determining timing and rates,...
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Rachel Stevens
- Jan 26, 2021
- 2 min
Let it Snow--5 things you didn't know about Snow
With our recently missed, or under-projected snow fall, I got thinking about snow and thought it might be fun to share some interesting...
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Rachel Stevens
- Jan 13, 2021
- 2 min
Chatting about Qrome
QROME We’ve been throwing that phrase around for a year or so now. You may recognize it as the Q that is on the end of some of our newer...
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Rachel Stevens
- Dec 29, 2020
- 3 min
Let's Start Small...
Two years ago I wrote a post on goal setting as we headed into 2019. We discussed how to create SMART goals. SMART goals are specific,...
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Rachel Stevens
- Dec 16, 2020
- 3 min
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We are a week early, but Merry Christmas from all of us at Pederson Seed and Services. It seems like all I keep saying, but what a year....
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Rachel Stevens
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
What are your winter shop projects?
While the list of projects on your to do list is probably never ending, everything seems a little less pressing once harvest is done....
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Rachel Stevens
- Nov 17, 2020
- 4 min
Understanding Field Variability
You’ve probably read it several times on our blog. “Your fields aren’t uniform, so don’t treat them like they are.” We wanted to spend...
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Rachel Stevens
- Nov 4, 2020
- 3 min
The Importance of a Fall Burndown
With dry conditions and lots of good running days, many of you have experienced a shortened harvest season and have, or are wrapping up...
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Rachel Stevens
- Oct 21, 2020
- 3 min
Nitrogen Rates and Planning for 2021
Ahh the joys of farming. One season not done, and already looking to the next. While harvest is still underway, we did want to start...
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Rachel Stevens
- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
Harvest Field Fire Prevention and Reaction
I don’t think I have to say this---but, you guys, we are dry. From September 1st to now, we’ve had a whopping total of .86 inches. TOTAL....
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Rachel Stevens
- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
Plant Health is more than just Yield
I was listening to The Corn Revolution Podcast this week and the topic they were discussing really got me thinking. The title was “Plant...
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