Kipp Field Intel is farmer-focused agronomy for Central Michigan, with boots in the fields and experience across many seasons. Get timely local insight, weekly in-season reports, and trusted tools to help you make better decisions all year long.
From The Field It’s been a moody stretch of weather this past week. Feels like it’s doing a full 180 every 30 minutes, and the cold days are still outweighing the warm. Because of that, there really hasn’t been much happening out in the fields yet. Water ponding in wheat fields CORN When fields dry out and tillage starts, the decisions start stacking up quick. One pass turns into two, and before long you’ve got a black field that looks ready to go. A lot of times the mindset
From The Field Over the past week, we’ve been out scouting wheat and alfalfa around the area and pulling soil samples. Wheat is starting to show more field-to-field differences, especially in fall growth and tiller development. Nitrogen applications have also started on wheat as growers begin taking advantage of weather and field conditions. Soil Sampling 3-26-26 CORN What is actually driving your corn population decisions? Do you use real field productivity or last year’s yi
From The Field Wheat Green up and tillering 3/23/26 CORN When it comes to early season weed control in corn, the type of corn matters most. In my experience, when you are raising conventional corn, seed corn, or sweet corn, a two-pass program is a must. I have worked with multiple farms growing non-Roundup Ready corn, and grass is usually the biggest issue. You do not have Roundup as an easy cleanup tool, so if grasses get established, you are already behind. That is why I li
