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Inside this issue: Water Scarcity Requires Smart Steps During Planting Season Lab Quality Reaches New Standard of Excellence Board Member Profile: Nic McCarthy Mike Battin Training Program Details Crop Science  Click to view PDF

  Inside this Issue: Easy Button Solution is the Goal of New Technology Platform Soil Sampling 101 Managing Nitrogen to Avoid Nitrate Leaching Board Member Profile: Jerald Kemmerer Buyer Beware for Biostimulants Click to open PDF.

 Carbon credits. Environmental assets. Climate-smart commodities. ESG scores. Regenerative farming. No matter what it is called, growers and our cooperative partners are continuously bombarded with requests from third parties to do more, collect more data and be more involved at the farmgate in the environmental space.     With ServiTech’s focus on data and decision excellence and our team of agronomists and lab professionals at hand, ServiTech can provide a turnkey solution for data collection, analysis and validation with any platform. It is a natural fit to include our experts as a part of your strategy to capitalize on the expanding opportunities of sustainability, sound agronomics and environmental consciousness.    ServiTech President and CEO Ryan Hassebrook says the company is geared to be at the forefront of navigating the challenges, the technology platforms, the validation and the marketplace with grower customers. Hassebrook says ServiTech is also growing its expertise with

  ServiTech is announcing new members of its leadership team. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here:  https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220930005433/en/ Rob Swieter, Left, becomes ServiTech COO. Derek Kleve, Right, becomes ServiTech Iowa Territory Leader. (Photo: Business Wire) Rob Swieter has been named Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the nation’s largest agriculture consulting and lab services company. In this position Swieter will lead the ServiTech team’s day to day operations and administrative functions. Swieter comes from a diverse career background and joined ServiTech as the Iowa Territory Leader in 2021. Swieter has served in the Air National Guard since 2005 first as a Computer Systems Operations Specialist and now as an Aircraft Metals Technology Specialist. Swieter graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy, and gained industry experience with ag retail cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin as a Sales

  Inside this Issue: Federal Programs, Carbon Markets and More: They All MeanOpportunities for Crops Planning a Test Plot? Feed and Forage Team Ready for Fall Board Member Profile: Dennis Rickertsen Click to Open PDF

Regardless of whether it is for a row crop, pasture or cover crop, one expert agrees that a soil test is a must. Fred Vocasek Dodge City, Kansas-based ServiTech Senior Laboratory Agronomist Fred Vocasek, says that field and pasture conditions can change in a short amount of time and producers need to take that into account. Consistency in samples and depth allows growers to compare “apples to apples.” “This year it has been so dry that depending on the soil sample depth they have been using, it has been hard to get to that same depth by hand probing,” Vocasek said. “If you are used to taking an 8-inch sample and you can only pull a 6-inch sample that’s going to skew your historical average results.” Tools that can help Some producers are using cordless drills to ensure they are reaching the right depth, he said. Oklahoma State University developed a “Sweatless Soil Sampler” that a grower can build for himself and has been endorsed by Clemson University. The developers of the tool said