Logan Haake is the precision ag manager for Legacy Farmers Cooperative in Findlay, Ohio. He was one of five crop specialists named this year as the first recipients of the new GROWMARK Endure 4R Advocate award. Haake is a Certified Crop Adviser who has worked at Legacy for 11 years and also farms with his father. “Agriculture is very important …
GROWMARK Supports FFA Through Essay Contest
2017 is the 24th year for the essay contest sponsored by GROWMARK and participating FS member cooperatives. The contest is for active high-school FFA members in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri. The contest offers four state winner awards of $500 each, four runners-up per state with a $125 award each, and FFA chapter of the state winner with a $300 …
Windy City Home for GROWMARK 2016 Annual Meeting
GROWMARK is hosting its 2016 Annual Meeting this week, held at the Hilton Chicago from Wednesday, August 31 through Thursday, September 1. New to this year’s event is an added Agribusiness Symposium scheduled to follow the Annual Meeting. The Symposium will feature a variety of speakers covering agricultural topics and more, including CoBank CEO Bob Engel, Retired General and former …
GROWMARK Endure Advocate Awards
This year GROWMARK recognized the efforts of five crop specialists who have excelled at engaging farmers in using sustainable, best-management practices with the GROWMARK Endure 4R Advocate award. The honor is given for working with farmers to increase their use of the 4R approach; applying fertilizers at the right source, right rate, right time and right place, and for encouraging …
Good Agronomy = 4R Approach
Rick Klevze is the location manager at the GROWMARK FS Bloomsbury, New Jersey location and was one of five crop specialists recently named as the first recipients of the new GROWMARK Endure 4R Advocate award. Klevze, who has over 35 years of experience and has been a Certified Crop Adviser since 1994, believes the 4R approach is a sensible way …
Ontario’s Chris Snip Says 4R Approach is Personal
For Chris Snip of Agris Co-operative in Ontario, Canada, the 4R approach to nutrient management is personal. Snip has been a Certified Crop Advisor for 16 years and was one of five crop specialists recently named as the first recipients of the new GROWMARK Endure 4R Advocate award. “My family and I spend a lot of time in Lake Erie, …
@GROWMARK Award Winner Supports 4R Concept
Jason Wesslund, area manager for the eastern half of Heritage FS in central Illinois, was one of five crop specialists recently named as the first recipients of the new GROWMARK Endure 4R Advocate award. Wesslund supervises four agronomy locations and four energy territories and also leads education and training of sustainable best management practices at Heritage FS. Wesslund uses the …
@GROWMARK Endure 4R Advocate Award Program
GROWMARK has instituted a new award program to recognize the efforts of crop specialists who excel in engaging farmers by using sustainable, best-management practices. The GROWMARK Endure 4R Advocate award was just given to five crop specialists in the FS System for working with farmers to increase their use of the 4R approach; applying fertilizers at the right source, right …
A Look @GROWMARK’s Climate FieldView
Climate Corporation’s Climate FieldView products are among the most exciting innovations that GROWMARK’s Ron Milby has seen come along for agriculture in the past two decades. “I’ve been involved with precision ag for over 20 years and just having satellite images so you can see what’s going on, that really is a tremendous value,” says Milby, GROWMARK’s executive director for …
@GROWMARK Customers Embrace Climate FieldView
Climate Corporation’s Climate FieldView products are among the most exciting innovations that GROWMARK’s Ron Milby has seen come along for agriculture in the past two decades. Milby says the Climate FieldView Prime is a free offering that provides weather, scouting and alerts. “Climate FieldView Plus allows an in-cab experience,” said Milby. The Plus product also offers the ability to connect …
@GROWMARK Grows with Youth Programs
When it comes to sustainability in agriculture, the most precious natural resource for the industry to preserve is our young people, and the GROWMARK System and FS member cooperatives are all about that. GROWMARK has a long history of making a significant investment in youth, from helping to fund Ag in the Classroom, to supporting FFA and 4-H, to a …
GROWMARK Partners with Climate Corp
GROWMARK has partnered with The Climate Corporation to become an official dealer of Climate Pro, The Climate Corporation’s premium web and mobile offering. Climate Pro is a web-based data information system that provides weather information specific to an individual farmer’s field of interest. The software allows farms to import or load field boundaries into Climate Pro, and the Climate Pro …
GROWMARK Offers Pest Guidance After Mild Winter
While many people enjoyed this year’s mild winters, farmers struggled to enjoy the balmy break from freezing temperatures. Instead growers have been more concerned with the affect the temperature will have had on insect pressure. AgWired spoke with Tim Laatsch of GROWMARK to learn more about what could be in store this growing season. The full interview also covers a …
ZimmCast Highlights #Propane Power from @GROWMARK
Propane power is on a roll these days, going far beyond it’s traditional uses of home heating and grain drying, moving into areas such as fleet vehicles and irrigation engines. For this edition of the ZimmCast, Cindy Zimmerman spoke with Becky Hornblower, GROWMARK’s propane marketing and technical services manager, about everything that’s new about propane – from supplies and prices, …
GROWMARK Agronomy Introduces Sustainability Programs
GROWMARK is launching new programs out of its Agronomy division as part of its System-wide Sustainability Initiative called Endure. The programs include a Pollinator Seed Program, Endure Advocate Program, and entry-level and advanced nutrient management training programs. Pollinator Seed Program As part of its pollinator program, GROWMARK is donating seed to many of its supply and grain members to plant …