Posts Tagged: 'Agronomy'

AGCO Crop Tour 2019: Weather challenges planting in Northwest Europe

The AGCO Crop Tour 2019 is underway at seven locations in Northwest Europe, focusing on sugar beets and corn.

AGCO Crop Tour Update: 2019 Tillage Trials

The 2019 AGCO Crop Tour is comparing tillage methods for seedbed preparation in terms of plant emergence and growth, spacing, surface residue, root development, soil compaction and yield.

AGCO Crop Tour: 4 Ways to Increase Maize Yield at Planting in the Ukraine

During the 2018 AGCO Crop Tour, we conducted crop establishment on-farm research in the Ukraine over the course of 1 year. In this post, we show 4 ways to increase maize yield through precision planting.

AGCO Crop Tour – More Yield Does Not Always Mean More Profit!

An important aspect of AGCO’s Crop Tour is to educate farmers how to generate more profit by adapting different technology and farming practices to suit regional conditions. A key element is to show farmers that yield does not always mean more profit, and farmers should aim to maximize profit by optimizing yield and investment costs.

How To Recover Your Fields After The 2019 Winter Floods

At AGCO, our employees and dealers have been closely monitoring the impact of the floods that affected many parts of the United States. While some farmers deal with flooding on an annual basis, the catastrophic Spring 2019 floods are affecting farmers that don’t typically have this problem. In this blog, we discuss how to handle debris left in your fields, erosion, and deposition, and regaining soil health when the floodwaters recede.