Agronomy

Announcements:

Customer Service starts at Elburn Cooperative.

We offer effective agronomy advice and services that provide you with the highest value, while helping you make the best use of your time.

Our Agronomists specialize in areas such as crop rotation, irrigation and drainage, plant breeding, soil classification, soil fertility, weed control and insect and pest control, and they are standing by waiting to help you.

At Elburn Cooperative our goal is to provide you with the best possible service. In addition to agronomy advice, we provide informational services including:

• MeterMax™ planter calibration system available through our Seed Division.
• Our three weigh wagons are ready to help you measure your success at harvest.
• We offer convenient seed delivery to your farm. You can request bulk tender delivery, too.
• Look at our local yield data to help you form seed decisions.
• Membership on the Pioneer® Growing Point Web site .
• Walking Your Fields® newsletter from Pioneer.

Our specialized agronomy locations and superior service will enable you to achieve a profitable harvest.

FERTILIZER PRICES
03/03/09 - Elburn Cooperative offers 24/7 access to fertilizer prices. Please note, this is a secure page. Click here to access link to secure page along with information on obtaining a user account if you currently do not have one.

FERTILIZER MARKET UPDATE
03/03/09 - Elburn Cooperative will post regular fertilizer market news update to help you make informed purchase decisions throughout the year. Click here to see the current update.


Precision Planting'sTM New 20/20 SeedSense System
Having your planter set to run perfectly will pay big dividends. We spend lots of time helping make sure your seed meters are running right. How about down pressure? Side wall compaction puts a real constraint on getting fast, even emergence. That ultimately affects yield. Take a look at the new monitor written up in Farm Industry News , which can help you monitor allowing you to make changes field by field with planter settings as needed. Give Joe a call at (815) 895-2731, he can get you set up.

Plant Stand Management
Case IH - Plant Stand Management Evaluator™
This site is specifically designed around planter row units and their behavior in the country. The measurements relate to plots and other information designed around plant spacing and plant emergence.

Better Inoculants
Growing higher yielding soybean on those committed acres is becoming very important, especially at $12 per bushel plus prices. Inoculants aren’t what they used to be. Read this current article from Farm Industry News.


2007 Elburn Coop Fungicide Trials
Click on the link below to view yield data results, general observations, and Elburn Coop's 2008 recommendations.

View Presentation (PDF)
Contact Jeff Keifer, Sales/Precision Ag. Specialist at Jeffk@elburncoop.com or 815-899-8964 if you’d like to set-up a time to have this presentation put on at your office.