If you are considering fall application of anhydrous ammonia to corn fields (the only nitrogen fertilizer recommended for fall application), remember to wait until soil temperatures cool to 50 F and continue to trend colder.

With the combination of high corn yields, above average precipitation this year, we might see more response to fall nitrogen on our small grain crops.

One of the speakers at the UI Agronomy Day at Urbana this past week was quoted as saying that corn producers had not planted enough plants this year to take advantage of the good growing conditions.

From August 16th - September 15th, we asked No-Till Farmer readers: "Where do you think your corn yields will end up this year vs. your expectations from earlier this summer?"

Is 500-bushel corn really attainable? Those involved with the new Illinois-based company 360 Yield Center think so, through better identification and management of limiting factors in the field.

The federal government expects the nation to grow bumper crops of corn and soybeans for the second consecutive year, adding to already adequate supplies but further holding down prices farmers will get for their productivity.

InterSeeder Technologies, a new company affiliated with Penn State University, has launched commercial sales of InterSeeder, a multipurpose machine that simultaneously plants three rows of cover crops while spraying post-emergent herbicide and nitrogen fertilizer in single passes between four or six rows of knee-high corn.

Many fields are showing less than optimal color and there have been several calls regarding possible need for more N to "green things up a bit."

Planting cereal rye as a cover crop provides numerous short- and long-term agronomic and environmental benefits.