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From quality seed to custom-tailored applications of fertilizers and crop protection products, the Agronomy Division at Alliance Ag & Grain provides everything you need to maximize your farm’s productivity. Our experienced team ensures that you’ll get the most out of your crop inputs by offering agronomy solutions such as soil tests, tissue sampling, field mapping and variable rate technology.
 
But unlike other cooperatives, we go above and beyond by supplying farmers with a wide range of cutting-edge precision ag technology capabilities. In addition to employing precision ag platforms like the WinField® United R7® Tool and Climate FieldView™, we help our customers scale on-farm conservation solutions and drive sustainability by utilizing the Truterra™ Insights Engine and Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE™) technologies from Verdesian Life Sciences.
 
Alliance Ag & Grain has 11 agronomy centers located throughout our service area to ensure that our quality products and services are always available to meet your needs. Read on to learn more about our product portfolios and service offerings, and give us a call to start realizing your operation’s fullest potential.




 

Agronomy Services

We provide a wide range of agronomic services at Alliance Ag & Grain, including the following:

Custom Applications

  • Homogeneous pre-plant fertilizers (flat or variable rate treatments)
  • In-crop dry fertilizer treatments for row crops
  • Liquid micronutrients, nitrogen stabilizers and phosphorous enhancers
  • Complete line of crop protection products such as pre- and post-emerge herbicides, fungicides and insecticides
  • Aerial application

Soil Sampling

Grid and zone management

Seed treatments

Either at our plant, or on your farm

Plant Tissue Sampling

Precision Agronomy

Agronomy News

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Close up of a spray nozzle distributing a burndown herbicide.

Take Care of Early Spring Weeds Before Planting

As you prepare for spring, consider a spring burndown herbicide application if winter or spring annual weeds are a problem in your fields. Winter annuals, including marestail, overwinte...

Feb 02, 2023
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Growers evaluating early-season soybean stands.

Are Plant Growth Regulators Worth the Investment?

Plant growth regulators have been getting more attention from the agricultural community in recent years, but you may be wondering if they live up to the hype. The Answer Plot® prog...

Jan 12, 2023
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Stack of three CROPLAN corn seed bags.

New Traits for CROPLAN Corn Hybrids in 2023

Farmers looking for the latest seed traits and technology will have more management options in 2023 with new CROPLAN® corn hybrids. We have added nine new corn products – incl...

Dec 09, 2022
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Early-season soybean plants.

Making Sense of the Biologicals Market

Biologicals have grown exponentially in the past few years. What was once focused on specialty crops and other niche markets is now moving into row crops. That said, the market is still...

Dec 06, 2022
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Close up of corn at tassle.

Use Response-To Fungicide Scores to Make Data-Based Decisions

Whether selecting which hybrids to plant or determining which fields to spray with fungicide, use response-to fungicide (RTF) scores to help inform your decisions. RTF scores can help y...

Nov 16, 2022

Seed & Seed Treatments

Seed

Alliance Ag & Grain sells and supports some of the best crop seed on the market, including crops like corn, soybeans, wheat, milo, cotton, alfalfa and forage grasses. We are proud to offer the following seed brand portfolios; call your local agronomy sales representative for more information.

Seed Treatments

It’s important to protect your investment after selecting the right seed for your fields. We take great pride in our seed treatment capabilities at Alliance Ag & Grain. With one permanent seed treatment system and two mobile seed treaters, we believe we offer the most accurate and professional seed treating opportunities available. We offer a full line of premier seed treatment products to protect against early season disease and insect pressure.



One of our leading seed treatment products is Preside CL® soybean inoculant, which brings more nitrogen (N) into the plant by adding additional nodules and making more efficient use of supplied N. To accelerate nutrient acquisition and assimilation for healthier plants and greater yield potential, it pairs a powerful soybean inoculant along with Take Off® technology. This combination improves soybeans’ ability to emerge, establish a stand and effectively utilize the increased N levels the Preside CL supplies. Click here to learn more about Preside CL®. 

Thanks to our closed-loop seed treatment equipment, we can even protect your crops from nematode pressure with NemaStrike™ technology. Contact your local Alliance Ag & Grain agronomy sales representative to learn about our entire lineup of quality seed treatment products.
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Local Yield Data

Selecting the right hybrids and seed varieties can be a complex process with new products constantly being introduced. Fortunately we help you sort through the details by providing yield data from our local test plots. In addition to reviewing the data below, be sure to consult your local Alliance Ag & Grain agronomy sales representative for customized assistance in finding the best fit for your acres.

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Precision Ag


The Alliance Ag & Grain agronomy team uses leading technology to provide you with accurate, cost-effective field prescriptions. We leverage the R7® Tool and Climate FieldView™ to store data and help farmers identify and better manage the acres that provide the best opportunity for increased profit potential. Both of these comprehensive precision farming solutions integrates soil and tissue sampling, satellite imagery mapping and harvest data to help create customized variable rate prescriptions for your farm.
 
We also utilize the Truterra™ Insights Engine, a framework from Land O’Lakes SUSTAIN that helps ensure that customized and scalable on-farm conservation solutions protect our natural resources and assist with yield and profitability, all while helping you qualify for payments from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP).
We also work with Verdesian Life Sciences to help our customers create their own Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE™) Plan. This program enhances soil fertilizer efficiency and focuses on plant uptake and utilization by fertilizers that limit nutrient loss and improve crop yields and quality.
 
Click on the items below to learn more about each precision ag platform.
 
WinField® United R7® Tool
   
  • Field and Zone Soil Testing
  • Variable Rate Fertility Prescriptions
  • As-Applied Field Mapping
  • Harvest Data Mapping
  • Satellite Imaging
  • NDVI Images and Analysis
  • Farm Data Management
  • Profitability Map
  • Archived and In-Season Imagery
 
Climate FieldView™
  • Keeps all your data in one place with connectivity across many equipment types, makes, models and systems. This enables easy collection, storage and viewing of field data for more of the inputs you manage during the season.
  • Uncover valuable insights for next season with tools that help you analyze crop performance at the field level or by field zone. Use in-season imagery to identify issues early and take action to protect yield.
  • Optimize inputs to maximize yield and profitability on every acre with variable rate seeding prescription tools, nitrogen management tools and fertility scripting tools.
Truterra™ Insights Engine

The Truterra™ Insights Engine by Land O’Lakes SUSTAIN is a first-of-its-kind, interactive on-farm stewardship digital platform that helps farmers advance their goals for stewardship and financial return-on-investment in real time, acre-by-acre.
 
Designed first and foremost to be of value for farmers, the platform was created by a farmer-owned cooperative to be used by farmers, agricultural retailers and agricultural experts in their quest to help improve on-farm economic and natural resource stewardship.
 
It can bring together the value of stewardship practices with the agronomic expertise and technological capabilities of agricultural retailers to create field-customized insights for farmers. It also enables food companies to measure sustainability progress.
 
To learn more about the Truterra™ Insights Engine, conservation agronomy and Land O’Lakes SUSTAIN, click on the links below.
 
Truterra™ Insights Engine 
Conservation Agronomy
Land O’Lakes SUSTAIN
 
Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE™) Program

Alliance Ag & Grain helps farmers with sustainable efficiency and profitability though nutrient use efficiency (NUE) solutions supported by Verdesian Life Sciences. These solutions enhance crop uptake, reduce nutrient losses to the environment and improve yields.

NutriSolutions® Tissue Analysis

Our agronomists can visit your farm at different points during the growing season to take plant tissue samples. NutriSolutions® tissue testing and analyses pinpoint nutrient deficiencies at critical growth stages so we can help farmers make adjustments before yield potential is compromised. We can also import tissue data results into the Climate FieldView™ and R7® Tool applications for a complete review of previous seasons to help you plan for next season.
 

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Agronomy Sales Representatives

Lance Nelson
Agronomy Manager
Larry Craft
Wright Sales Representative
Tom Rabe
Lewis Sales Representative
Kilee Hutchison
Haviland Sales Representative
Haeden Henderson
Protection Sales Representative
Broc Ellis
Haviland Sales Representative
Dave Strecker
Fuel Division Manager

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Agronomy Locations