Special Report
Insecticide use key to Illinois farmer’s success
John Obery is a corn farmer from Woodford County, Illinois, which, he proudly tells me is the first county in the nation to break the 200 per acre bushel corn mark.
I met John in the AMVAC exhibit at the 2010 Commodity Classic Trade Show, where he told me AMVAC has helped him be successful and profitable.
With corn rootworm pressure, Obery said they always use insecticide on most of their corn. For the past couple of years, he said they have been using a lot of insecticide on triple stack corn and have been getting a good response.
“Using Counter in our area is probably something to consider to keep ahead of the cyst nematode damage that can arise and could be pretty devastating which it has been this past season.” Obery said. “In one of my neighbor’s fields the population was threshold or above and he was faced with over 100 bushel decrease in spots according to his yield monitor; and that is pretty significant. In a field that soil didn’t vary much and it should have been a pretty consistent yield. That’s not representative of what that field should have done.”
When asked what exactly he means by a good response from insecticide use, Obery replied, “We make money. When we get more corn, more dollars of corn than we spend, that is a good investment.”
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