When the temperature starts to warm up, flies quickly become a pesky issue. The horn fly’s fast repopulation rate quickly turns a few adult flies into a few thousand flies per animal. One way to...
We all know that proper lubrication and maintenance will keep your equipment running smooth. Cenex offers premium greases to help extend the life of your equipment, reduce downtime, and costly...
The summer weather has arrived, and I’ve enjoyed watching calves grow as they are turned out to grass. Creep feed season is here, and now is the time to take advantage of the excellent creep...
When we are out looking at our fields, it's always a good idea to bring along a shovel. Early in the season, a small garden shovel works well, but later in the season (V6+ corn), it's best to...
I often get calls from producers concerned that their cattle are consuming too much mineral. Once we figure how many ounces per head per day, it helps ease producers minds knowing their cattle are at...
What a spring it has been in the energy world! We started the spring with OPEC and Russia not being able to agree on a production cut, then flooding the world with oil because of their...
With the recent high temperatures, cow-calf producers and feedlots are working to keep their cattle cool and maintaining intakes. It is estimated that heat stress-related mortalities and performance...
It’s worthwhile to spend some time in your cornfields taking stand counts and assessing your stand compared to your planting population. While there, you can make some observations about the...
As we wrap up calving season and start the calves on creep feed, the next item of importance is bull care. Proper care of breeding bulls prior to turnout can improve the fertility, and as a result...
Hometown Choice is a CVA program for our agronomy member-owners across our entire territory. For every gallon of Delaro and Stratego YLD Fungicide products purchased, CVA will donate $1 to grower...
Are you ready to hit the road? CVA 24-hour fueling makes worry free road trips and makes those early morning and late night fuel needs stress free. ...
Today we wrap up the Agronomy Focus series on Building a Fertility Plan for N, S, P, & K. Today, we want to focus on potassium. Like phosphorus, potassium is a nutrient we build a long term plan...