by Brad Johnson | Feb 16, 2021 | Agronomy
Back in the late summer of 2019, the NuTech product advancement team was out walking test plots when a particular hybrid caught their eye. She was a real stand-out for emergence and early growth. It was time to nurture her potential and see what she could do in the...
by Brad Johnson | Aug 3, 2020 | Agronomy
I hope your summer is going well and your fields are coming along nicely! While your crops ripen, it’s important to remain vigilant to weed, disease and pest threats across the Corn Belt. Agronomic concerns are always very specific to geography, but there are some...
by Brad Johnson | Mar 24, 2020 | Agronomy, Planting
NuTech Lead Agronomist Brad Johnson explains why planting your soybeans early might make sense this year. Back when I first started working with farmers, everyone used to choose their planting dates based on the calendar. Corn always went in first, followed by...
by Brad Johnson | Sep 30, 2019 | Agronomy
Meet Brad Johnson, Lead Agronomist and Product Manager Brad Johnson grew up on a cattle farm just west of Des Moines, Iowa. A self-described “show jock” in his teens, he had little interest in agronomy until a college internship changed his path. “I spent a summer in...
