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Make It Stick
Jul 21, 2022
| Chandler Coop
When spraying, don't forget the adjuvant in the tank. MasterLock adjuvants are designed to enhance you fungicide applications through better droplet sticking and spreading.
Practice Makes Profit
Jul 19, 2022
| Chandler Coop
The 2022 Truterra™ summer carbon program is now open through June 30. Earn up to $25 per ton of new carbon stored from implementing new conservation practice changes.*
Take the carbon survey to see if you are eligible and enroll below.
Answer Plot & Answer Tech News
Branded vs. Generic Adjuvants: How to Optimize Spray Performance and Protect Your ROI Potential
Aug 25, 2026
| Answer Plot
When input budgets get tight, it is easy to look at the price tag on a jug of adjuvant and wonder whether a lower-cost generic product will do the job just as well as a premium-branded one. After all, if the active ingredients are similar, why pay extra?
However, looking stric...
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Making the Perfect Pass: Lessons from Our Drone Workshop
Aug 11, 2026
| Answer Tech
The use of drones in row crop agriculture is growing rapidly. It’s estimated that thousands of spray drones entered the U.S. agriculture market last year alone. Yet education on how to use the technology properly and effectively has not kept pace with adoption.
That&rsqu...
Make the Most of Your Fungicide Application
Jun 11, 2026
| Answer Plot
If I had a crystal ball, I could tell you how heavy disease pressure will be in the future. But since I don’t, my best advice is to use data and your trusted advisors to determine the best course of action to protect plant health.
Use resources to make educated fun...
3 Must-Knows for Drone Applications
May 19, 2026
| Answer Tech
Every pesticide application worth making is worth doing correctly. Drones have proven to be a helpful innovation for efficient crop protection applications, but many precise factors need to be right in order to optimize performance. Whether you’re spraying your own crops, s...
Help Inputs Work Harder
May 04, 2026
| Answer Plot
To maximize profitability potential, every dollar spent on crop protection products must deliver the best possible return on investment. That’s where adjuvants come in. They’re the unsung heroes of the tank mix, and they can help enhance the performance of herbicides,...
5 Tips for Managing Early-Season Plant Stress
Mar 04, 2026
| Answer Plot
Planting is just around the corner. Every decision you make, including your seed purchase and the ground conditions you place it in, can affect the number on the yield monitor at harvest. When seeds start in cold, wet soils, it can lead to early-season plant stress that can impac...
Take Care of Early Spring Weeds Before Planting
Feb 24, 2026
| Answer Plot
If you deal with winter or spring annual weeds in your fields, it's important to consider including a spring burndown herbicide application. Winter annuals, including marestail, chickweed, henbit, pennycress and shepherd’s purse, resume growing as soon as temperatures g...
Look to Fungicides to Help Manage Disease in High-Value Hybrids
Dec 16, 2025
| Answer Plot
In 2025, moisture was extremely prevalent in some areas, and with it, disease pressure. Across the lower corn belt from St. Louis to central Ohio, heavy rains came in the early season, impacting planting timing, while the central upper Midwest received excessive moisture mid-seas...
6 Disease Management Tips for Corn and Soybeans
Nov 25, 2025
| Answer Plot
With the strong disease pressures we saw in 2025, it’s a good idea to consider now how you’ll handle those potential threats in the upcoming season. Your crops (and your wallet) will benefit from a proactive approach to disease management. Here are six tips to plan ah...
Why Seed Treatments Are Critical For Crop Success
Oct 28, 2025
| Answer Plot
Your crop has its maximum potential before the seed ever hits the soil. Every day after planting, biotic and abiotic stresses can chip away at that seed’s yield potential. That’s why investing in an effective seed treatment is so important. Seed treatments help protec...
What You Need to Know About the EPA Herbicide Strategy
Sep 08, 2025
| Answer Plot
On August 20, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final Herbicide Strategy, calling it an “unprecedented step” toward protecting more than 900 federally endangered and threatened species from the potential impacts of herbicide use.
At ...
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Introducing a Simplified Way to Boost Herbicide Performance
Sep 01, 2025
| Answer Plot
Today’s agronomic landscape demands more from every application. Weed pressures are increasing with more than 250 weed species now resistant to at least one herbicide mode or site of action.1 Tank mixes are becoming increasingly complex, and increased weather variability is...