Your seed tube guards play a critical role in creating a proper furrow and achieving proper seed placement. Check the condition of your seed tubes before you take to the field. The Planter Maintenance series is brought to you by Precision Planting.

Besides building healthy soil, living roots are the tool to fix marginal lands. Salt-affected soils are an example of a hard-to-fix marginal land situation in South Dakota. There are annual and perennial plants that can tolerate more soil salts

The seed mixture options for full and late-season grazing could include cool-season cereals (oats, barley, triticale), warm-season grasses (sorghum-sudan, sudangrass, pearl millet), brassicas (turnips, radishes, kale), broadleaf plants (sunflowers, buckwheat) and legumes (forage peas, clovers, vetch).

Drift must be one of your most serious concerns when spraying herbicides in fields where the adjoining fields have been planted with some other crops or with cover crops.