News Articles
08.11.10
Dulaney Seed’s AgVenture Summer Profit Workshop a success
CLARKSDALE, MS (August 11, 2010) – "This was not your typical field day," said one of nearly 100 Mid-South farmers who attended the Dulaney Seed's Summer Profit Workshop July 22 at the company's headquarters in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dulaney Seed owner, Terry Dulaney said, "We work hard to go the extra mile with our farmers throughout the year. Our Summer Profit Workshop was no exception. With a firm focus on agronomics, economics and innovative management of the crop, we're helping Mid-South farmers reach and exceed yield goals and improve profitability on every acre. Our farmers are achieving this through year-round, intensive focus on every phase of crop production."
07.01.10
AgVenture Mid-South announces the Summer Profit Workshop
CLARKSDALE, MS / KENTLAND, IN (July 1, 2010) – AgVenture Mid-South has announced they will hold their AgVenture Mid-South Summer Profit Workshop July 22 at 4:00 p.m. at their Clarksdale, Mississippi headquarters. AgVenture Mid-South owner, Terry Dulaney said, "This is more than just a typical field day. Our Summer Profit Workshop will offer growers presentation on the agronomics and economics that together enable them to achieve more profitability on every acre." He added, "This is an opportunity for growers to learn more about how to increase profits across their operation."
05.27.10
AgVenture Mid-South Agronomists note strong start to 2010 corn crop
KENTLAND, IN / CLARKSDALE, MS (May 27, 2010) – "The corn is off to a great start across the Mid-South," says Wayne Dulaney, north central Mississippi AgVenture Yield Specialist and agronomist with Dulaney Seed Company. "Through attention to detail at planting, great seedbed conditions, excellent seed choices and placement, the 2010 corn crop is set up to be great. Now, protecting that potential is key to high yields."
01.18.10
AgVenture Mid-South extends reach in Central Arkansas Delta
AgVenture Mid-South has today announced the hiring of seed professional Robert Turner as AgVenture Yield Specialist and District Sales Manager. AgVenture Mid-South General Manager, Terry Dulaney said, "We're very pleased to fortify our professional seed services team in the Central Arkansas Delta. Robert brings 25 years of experience and expertise in agriculture sales, management and customer support to our growers across that region. He'll be a great addition to our team and to our customers' operations.
01.15.10
5 Tips To Reap Exceptional Yields
Starkville, MS - Stephen Lary, High Yield Specialist for AgVenture Mid-South, was one of the speakers at the MSU Row Crop Short Course held in December. Lary identified the steps, mindset, and processes that his company believes are the core principles necessary to enable farmers to achieve high yields."
12.04.09
Want Exceptional Yields... Don’t Plant Early…PLAN EARLY!
Today's farmers are smarter and better trained than ever before, and always eager to learn more. They are constantly looking for new and better ideas to combat their two biggest threats to profitability, input costs and market prices. Although agricultural suppliers are the ones who should be leading them in this battle, they're not. Instead, most seed suppliers are only offering to help growers lower their costs, and try to save them into prosperity. That strategy will eventually destroy farmers. It removes any opportunity to achieve exceptional yields, the ONLY solution to overcoming their two biggest threats.
11.13.09
The Days Of Helter Skelter Corn
One key to achieving the highest corn yields on your farm is called Field Specific Variety Selection (FSVS). Few farmers have ever heard that term. It means choosing the right varieties for the right fields and making sure they get planted according to plan. Many farmers think this match-up talk is just rhetoric or some type of sales pitch. It is, in fact, real and one of the most important decisions growers need to make that they cannot make alone. To make an informed decision, you need detailed agronomic knowledge from your seedsman on which to base your choice.
09.22.09
Genetic scope, testing programs benefit AgVenture Mid-South customers
Farmers across the Mid-South are realizing the benefits of AgVenture Mid-South's extensive testing programs and superior genetic access. The Clarksdale, Mississippi seed company has access to all major corn seed genetics providers, including Pioneer's elite germplasm, through their VPMaxx® brand.
06.12.09
Dusty Ward of Drew, MS hired as AgVenture Mid-South Maximum Profit Specialist
Clarksdale, Mississippi-based AgVenture Mid-South continues to expand its expert corn production staff. CEO and General Manger, Terry Dulaney said, "Having the right people in place to provide an exceptional level of knowledge and service is as important as having the right seed in the right place."
05.22.09
AgVenture Mid-South Hires new Maximum Profit Specialist, Shane Bray
South has hired Maximum Profit Specialist, Shane Bray of Lake Providence, Louisiana to serve farmers in southeastern Arkansas and northeastern Louisiana. Bray will provide professional agronomic support to farmers along with AgVenture® brand seed products.
02.13.09
If You Want Top Soybean Yields…"SECURE The Baby!”
"Soybeans need to be part of every delta farmer's 2009 cropping plan," states Wayne Dulaney, Lead Agronomist for AgVenture Mid-South. "Not only are soybeans one of the greatest rotation companions for corn, rice, and cotton, but they also have the ability to adapt to almost any soil type and weather condition. If there was ever a crop that could help insulate farmers from the ‘uncontrollables' involved in producing a crop, it is soybeans," says Wayne. "As we learn more about how to break yield barriers in soybeans, they are becoming even more attractive to delta farmers."
02.06.09
Input Costs Have Little To Do With Farm Profitability...
If that headline doesn't get your attention, nothing will. In a year when both input costs and market prices have many farmers scrambling for ways to make a profit, the idea of input costs being largely unrelated to profitability would seem ludicrous, but only until you investigate the idea even further.
12.05.08
No Business Plan, No Farming Success
Farmers are the only group of businessmen I know who start a new business every year. That's right. They go to the field every year to produce an entirely new crop, in an entirely new environment, with an entirely new set of products and management ideas. Pretty impres- sive. The problem is many farm- ers begin their new businesses ev- ery year without a well-developed business plan. That's the reason so many of them struggle to stay in business or at least fail to im- prove over the previous year. Any successful business MUST have a carefully thought out business plan to start-up and operate.
12.08
Heterosis: The Reason Corn Is The BIG PROFIT Crop!
Heterosis is hybrid vigor or the dramatically improved yield potential of a crop once it becomes hybridized. For example, some crops like wheat acquire low to moderate levels of heterosis, increased yield potential, once they become a hybrid. Other crops, like corn, obtain so much heterosis from hybridization that their yield potential has no real limit.
11.21.08
Delta Farmers Should Be Excited, Not Confused!
The greatest opportunity presently comes from the power of being a "solution minded" farmer rather than a "salvage minded" farmer. Farmers who devote their time and energy toward finding positive solutions to farming's challenges will reap huge benefits. Growers need to plan for success and growth, not just making it one more year according to Terry Dulaney of AgVenture.
09.19.08
Successful Farmers Will Plant Corn In 2009!
To maximize profits in farming today, growers have to make certain critical decisions. The most critical decision that affects profitability is which crops to plant. It sounds like a simple decision. However, for many farmers, the current market environment has made that decision rather complicated.
01.25.08
What Crop To Plant Next Year...
Make A Hard Decision Easy!
By Wayne Dulaney, Lead Agronomist AgVenture Seed
Want to make all of the right decisions next season in your farming operation? Do you want to do everything as close to perfect as possible so you make more money than every before? Do you want to plant the right crops so you can hit the market highs in those crops?
01.11.08
How To Raise 300 Bushel Corn
Part 3 of a 4 Part Series
Welcome back...we hope you enjoyed the first two articles on preparing to raise your corn yield averages to 300 bushels per acre or more. This is the third, in our four part series, if followed will both increase your yields and change how you farm.
Every grower knows profitability in farming starts with producing the highest yields. Many veteran producers still believe that there is only so much they can do to maximize yields; they think the rest is out of their control.
In reality, farmers can do a whole lot more to increase their yields to new heights. In fact, the things we are "teaching" growers to blow past yield barriers have been available for decades. It's just those key principles have not been taught or deemed important until now..
01.04.08
Enhance Both Crops in a Cotton ⁄ Corn Rotation
Tommy Swindoll, Hernando, MS "It was the best corn we had"
Crop rotations are working so well in parts of the United States that many growers no longer even consider putting the same crop on the same field two years in a row... except for cotton growers, that is. Some farmers have planted cotton on the same fields for decades without a single rotational crop in between. Until recently, there has been little scientific evidence supporting the insertion of other crops, such as corn, into a rotation with cotton. However, thanks to the introduction of new technology integrated corn varieties tailored for the south, that thinking is changing rapidly.
12.07
The Seedsman
You Really Cannot Beat This Deal
AgVenture Mid-South is committed to continually bring solutions to our customers that provide value. In that pursuit AgVenture now offers a financing program, developed jointly by AgVenture Mid-South and Rabo Agrifinance, that affords our customers convenient access to capital for seed purchases. Did you know Rabobank is one of the oldest, strongest, and most secure agricultural lenders in the world?
Many of our customers have already been pre-approved for a QuickLink Credit line of up to $75,000 through Rabo Agrifinance. Others have filled out a simple application and been approved in as little as a week. Growers have the option to request up to $250,000. You really cannot beat this deal. There are so many avenues this program opens up for our customers that are too numerous to list here. It can change a farm's whole financial structure. You can plant your crop and not have to worry about paying for your seed until after the crop is in.
11.16.07
Want to Produce 300 Bushel Corn
Part 2 of a 4 Part Series on How It's Done
Welcome back...we hope you enjoyed last month's article as our first in a 4-part series on producing 300 bushels of corn per acre here in the Mid-South. The previous article was intended to "wet your appetite" and get you thinking about how to raise your corn yields far above your current expectations. We know that producing 300 bushels of corn per acre is not easy, but we also know that it CAN be done because it is already being done in many parts of the country. However, farmers are learning that producing those kinds of yields, consistently, requires changing how they think about growing corn. It is not as difficult as you may think. Best of all, when you figure the extra profits that can be made, with current corn prices, "on your way" to getting those kinds of yields, it becomes a lot easier to change your thinking. So that is exactly where we are going begin article No. 2 of this series, how you "think."
10.07
The Seedsman
Where Do High Yields Come From
Often when farmers get extremely high yields, they don't consider the many elements that went into making all of those bushels. They simply tie bonus yields to cooperative weather patterns such as rainfall at the right time or favorable air temperatures. Although those ARE important factors that impact yields, other changes can be made to take those yields ever higher when the environment is favorable.
10.05.07
Raising 300 Bushel Corn Is An "Attitude"
First in a 4 Part Series!
Many corn growers have never dreamed of raising 300 bushels of corn per acre on their farms, let alone averaging that level year after year. That is exactly why they have never done it. Even though some farmers here in the Mid-South had record corn yields this fall, many would attribute those high yields to favorable factors, such as weather, rather than things they did intentionally as a farming practice. After all, corn yields have been increasing at an annual rate of 2-4% over the past 30 years. So, growers may think that's the best they can do, but that certainly isn't the case anymore. According to Rod Osthus, former corn researcher and 35-year veteran of the seed industry, "Raising 300 or more bushels of corn per acre starts with dreaming AND believing you can do it." Osthus says it's mostly about learning to think like a 300+ bushel corn grower thinks. "Corn yields have already been recorded in excess of 400 bushels per acre in the US,"he continues. "When you consider that every bag of corn seed planted has the potential to produce 600 bushels or more per acre, farmers should be consistently achieving at least half of that potential. Corn growers need to stop laughing at the idea and start changing how they THINK about raising corn. Once a corn grower starts thinking differently and believes he can raise 300 bushel corn, he will take the necessary actions to make that belief a reality."
09.07
The Seedsman
Corn Yields Increase Dramatically
AgVenture corn customers have been working on their PhD's in high yield corn production over the past 3 years. Our Agronomists and Crop Planning Specialists have helped growers change their past views about growing corn by doing things differently. Each year more and more AgVenture customers prove to themselves they CAN break former yield barriers and produce yields far above their expectations. "We have so many customers reporting whole farm averages in excess of 200 bushels per acre and many more fields averaging from 240-250 bushels per acre," says David Walker, Director of Crop Planning for AgVenture Seed, Inverness, Mississippi.
09.14.07
Add $40⁄Acre To Your Corn Profits In Just 2 Hours!
Farmers in the Mid-South are continuing to learn a lot about producing corn. For a crop that seemed to have little importance a few years ago, corn has been elevated to the No.2 and often No.1 status on many southern farms. Growers are using corn, not only as an important part of their soybean, cotton and wheat rotations, but they are also looking at corn as a key to their future in farming. "We are food and fuel producers today," says Terry Dulaney, President of AgVenture Seed in Clarksdale, Mississippi. There are currently more than 3500 different products sold in grocery stores that are made from corn and that number is growing fast. New innovations are putting farmers into the food and fuel production business faster than they realize. That is truly our future."
07.07
The Seedsman
What Can You Expect This Fall?
Harvest is always a mystery until you get into it, right? However, it shouldn't be. At AgVenture Seed our motto is "There should be no surprises." That is, we want our customers to know what to expect before they harvest. The key is knowing what to look for when walking fields. Too many growers simply look at the stand ear size or pod number and try to guess the yield. While that is fun to do, we use other important parameters to check for crop progress that you may want to consider when surveying your crop.
06.07
The Seedsman
The "Boogieman Showed Up"
We had a great start to our corn crop this spring, probably as good as we've had in years. Then suddenly the "boogieman" showed up. That's right, Ole, Mr. Frost as the boogieman. At AgVenture, we call the Boogieman anything that unexpectedly interferes with our day, our wee, our month, our year, or our life. When you're in farming and in the seed business like us, the Boogieman is most often the weather. You never know when the weather will turn on you (when the Boogieman might come), you never know how unforgiving the weather will be (how big the Boogieman will be), and you never know what effect the weather will have (how much damage the Boogieman will cause). But I guarantee, when you work in agriculture, a boogieman of some king will show up every year, sooner or later.
11.03.06
The Secrets to Maximum Corn Yields in the Mid-South
Corn is becoming a crop of greater importance to southern growers every year. The benefits of growing corn are so numerous that even those who haven't considered growing corn in the past, are taking a hard look at its potential for their operations. Planting corn in rotation with other crops such as cotton and soybeans improves soil structure, breaks disease and insect cycles and returns balance to the nutrient profile of the soil. That's why corn is having such a positive impact on yields of both cotton and soybeans when they are planted in alternate years. In addition, high market prices corn and the potential to produce high yields are changing the way farmers in the Mid-South look at corn as an important part of their cropping plan.