Get a friend to join NAMA and be entered in a contest to win a Flip camera. That’s cool. Your friend will be entered too. Just get it done by April 12.
Tell your friends, peers, and business associates how you benefit from being a member of NAMA – the learning and networking opportunities, skill development, access to agribusiness solutions, etc. They can access our social media sites directly from our website at www.nama.org to learn more about NAMA activities.
Every NAMA member who recruits a new member between now and April 12 will be included in a drawing for a new flip video camcorder. The more new members you recruit – the better your chances. New members will have their names entered, too.
Simply tell your recruit to join on-line at http://www.nama.org/register.aspx. Tell them to add your name and company in the box titled “Referred By.” They can also call the NAMA office at 913-491-6500 to join; remind them to say they were referred by you! Be sure to tell them they’ll be included in the drawing.
When will the drawing take place? During the annual Agri-Marketing Conference, April 21 – 23, at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City. We’d love to have you there, but you don’t have to be present to win!
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“The soybean market has great potential for growth but yields haven’t increased that much in the last few years so what we really see is an opportunity is to get more from every acre by using some different practices and new technologies such as the new Kixor herbicide technology that BASF has,” said Paul Rea, Director of BASF US Crop Protection Division.
BASF Technical Service Manager Rick Chamblee says Kixor, which is the active ingredient in a number of new products that were just approved for use in this country last fall, is a great example of how BASF looked ahead to anticipate grower needs in the future. “When we started working on the Kixor family of products 9-10 years ago, glyphosate tolerant weeds were not even on the horizon,” Rick said. In fact, only one weed was resistant in the United States, today there are six broadleaf weeds that are tolerant to glyphosate that are commonly found in soybean production.
The average soybean yield in Illinois has been 45-46 bushels per acre the last two years, which Vince says has been pretty consistent for the past five years and growers would really like to see that improve by at least two bushels per acre. They would really like to see yields as high as the 100 bushels per acre that Kip Cullers sees on his farm, so Vince took a closer look at what Kip does last year to bring back to Illinois. “There’s a lot we have left to learn on how to maximize each individual plants’ productivity in soybean and really approach some of the levels of individual plant management like we’ve been doing in corn,” said Vince. He stresses the importance of early weed control as something growers can do to help improve yields. “Controlling weeds, starting with a clean field and making sure you don’t lose bushels to weeds early in the season is very important,” Vince said. 
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