The Desire
As an American grower you have the desire to leave the land better than you found it.
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The Challenge
The greatest challenges are to overcome the industry’s one-size-fits-all approach to addressing individual issues.
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The Opportunity
Are you maximizing plant nutrition by applying the right products in the proper quantity, at the right time, and in the right place?
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The Solution
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Putting It All Together for Maximum Success
Soil provides a nurturing bed for seedlings and contains a multitude of primary, secondary and trace nutrients necessary for a plant’s optimum health. However, a plant’s genetic performance is limited by the least available nutrient and its ability to uptake nutrients at the right time. Highly productive soils feature a healthy microbial community and result in increased nutritional quality, increased genetic performance, and increased yields.
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Plant growth and development depends upon maximizing the effects of photosynthesis. Enrich plant health by planting seeds in productive soils, getting the stand off to a good start, provide the right nutrients when the plant can use it most, and identify potential stresses and ways to minimize those stresses before they hit. A healthy plant features broad leaves and full kernels/pods.
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Energy drives the entire crop production system through chemical, physical and biological processes. The plant’s ability to harness the sun’s energy, to produce high-quality yields and transfer that energy to the kernel results in increased yields, improved feed quality, and ultimately increases your return on investment.
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While achieving improvements to your bottom line and increasing yield are often the key measures for success in farming, we challenge you to think beyond traditional yields. Do you see early crop differentials compared to your neighbors? Have you measured the feed quality of your grain? Are you improving the microbial environment in your soil? The Maximum Farming System is more than yield data, it’s a way of life that improves the well-being of all.
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A Burgioning Revolution: Agriculture Needs Focus on Soil Health
Geology without biology is dirt. Put the latter to the former, add a focus on building for the future, and you have a system of geology and biology to make soil. You may even have the makings to sustain humanity for generations to come.
That’s the easy way to explain Dr. David Montgomery’s presentation to the Maximum Farming Club Conference attendees in January. The path humanity has taken to make so much dirt of its soil and what it will take to spark agriculture’s potential next revolution is more complex. It...
by Cliff Ramsier, Technical Director
Much of the fertilizer world believes that corn yield is directly related to the amount of soil test phosphorus. In an environment where every dollar matters, proper understanding and use of phosphorus can improve yield and profitability.
Most of us understand that substantial quantities reside in soils (400# in sandy loam soil to more than 10,000# in clay loam soil) in each plow acre at 62/ 3 inches deep. This translates to 2,400 to 60,000 pounds in the total soil profile. While only a very small portion of this is soluble, it...
Why This Farmer Loves It!
Delk Crosier is a Maximum Farming Implementation specialist with a 2,000-acre farming operation in West Alexandria, Ohio. He has been using the Maximum Farming System for 30 years and grows all non-GMO corn and beans. He’s found that using the complete Maximum Farming System, including foliar applications, has improved his profitability, his condition, and productivity.
“I have used foliar applications as much as anyone in the company. As a producer, we have so much money invested in growing a crop that I consider the foliar program to be the...
The Right Form at the Right Time
by Cliff Ramsier, Technical Director
All non-legume crops benefit from nitrogen additions for optimum cropping efficiency. As a constituent of all proteins, as well as other plant tissues, nitrogen compounds represent more than three percent of green plant tissue dry weight. Since bio-availability of this nutrient is at the mercy of soil and weather conditions, management is a huge factor in both use efficiency and maximum yields.
Increases in energy prices, as well as concerns about off-site environmental effects, have...
How to Survive and Thrive in a Down Economy
As an ag lender and Vice President of Farm Credit MidAmerica, Brett Anderson knows how low commodity prices have impacted farmers. As a farmer and Maximum Farming System user, however, he’s seen how opportunities can still be found, despite the tough market conditions. The fundamental market indicators shaping today’s ag economy, by and large, point to negative moods on the farm. Commodity oversupply and rising interest rates lead the mood-setting factors, but with proper management, Anderson is thinking beyond farms surviving. He says...