AgWired

When we got to precision farming it was time for a tag team approach again. Getting this session started was Tom Doerge, Agronomy Research Scientist. Tom talked about using yield monitors and doing on-farm testing. He had some great photos of fields in which different treatments were applied side-by-side and in other patters. I will ask if these presentations are available.

Tag team member Todd Prescott got into the services Pioneer offers its customers who want yield mapping done for them. A certain amount of this information is or can be available via internet and computer. So, I asked him what kind of feedback he gets from growers about internet access. I was surprised and pleased to hear him say that farmer access to broadband is growing fast. He sees a lot of DSL becoming available and throughout the corn belt and soybean growing areas of the country. In fact, he’s spoken with growers who now have high speed options. He’s been hearing growers say they’ll have it installed and working as soon as they can now that it’s available in their area.

Jody did a great job and I hope he earned himself a Pioneer logo blazer!

Jody Gander is an Agronomy Research Scientist for Pioneer. He spoke about all the different kind of corn and soybean seed treatments available to growers. I suggest going to the GrowingPoint website to get this kind of information on the types of treatments and how they affect things like yield.

I said there’s a lot of media here at the Pioneer event. I’m actually surprised that almost all of them have stayed through the whole event.

Here’s a couple of very interested reporters. Know who they are? Post your guess.

Nitrogen utilization is a very important issue today. Ask Cindy, who’s editing our DomesticFuel site where we have regular input from a guy who has a problem with the fact that so much nitrogen fertilizer is put on crops that are turned into fuel today (corn most importantly). Here’s Pioneer’s Paul Gaspar, Agronomy Research Scientist, giving us an update on what Pioneer is doing to improve nitrogen efficiency in corn.

We’re back in the presentation room here at Pioneer. Today is research day. Lots of information about the research work that’s going on.

To get us started, Paul Stephens, Senior Research Scientist, talked about the M-Series soybean program. Probably most of you have seen one of their advertisements with the green soybean plant flexing its muscle. It’s all about improving yields.

Right now Paul is doing Q & A. He was just asked about the idea of a consistent 100 bushel/acre yield. He thinks that’s about 10 to 15 years away since he’s currently hearing about consistent 70+ bushel/acre yields.