“The ag community is all suffering. We all know this,” says Brandon Vining, president of ProGro Agronomy in St. Anthony. Agronomic outcomes differed by region, but low commodity prices and high input costs have most producers (outside of the beef industry) tightening their belts and hoping for better times.

With the potentially high costs of fertilizer application, accurately diagnosing and addressing sulfur deficiencies is critical for profitable crop production.

In 2022, Steven Hines with the University of Idaho wrote an article for Ag Proud – Idaho on interseeding cover crops into silage corn. Steven shared lessons learned and research results from trials in Idaho during 2017-22. Concurrent research was being conducted in Utah around the same time frame. This article will revisit interseeding and discuss takeaways from Utah studies.

“Overall, it was an average to average-plus year,” says Terry Helms of Simplot Grower Solutions in Oakley. Helms has been an agronomist in south central Idaho since 1985 and deals with a range of crops including potatoes, sugarbeets, corn, dry beans and small grains.

With glyphosate, many see only the risks and not the benefits. A closer look at glyphosate shows that the safety concerns are not scientifically supported, and that the benefits are worth the perceived risk.

20-60-20, do you recognize that ratio? Clue: corn hybrids. Here's some advice for you as you plan your corn crop this year.

In 2013, a group of colleagues and I started demonstrating with cover crops, with help from a Natural Resources and Conservation Service (NRCS) Conservation Innovation Grant to fund the work.