Services
Along with our quality products, MFA offers a menu of services to enhance our customers’ profitability and help them thrive in an environment of constant change.
Precision Agronomy
From grid-sampling and crop-scouting services to prescription recommendations and variable-rate application, MFA’s investment in expert personnel and advanced equipment keeps producers on the cutting edge of agricultural technology.
Learn More >Credit and Finance
As an agricultural producer, you need a lender that knows your business and your needs for capital. MFA Incorporated knows the agriculture industry from production to finance.
Learn More >Crop Insurance
MFA offers crop insurance as another way to serve you. As a central pillar of risk management, crop and livestock insurance is a standard part of your business. We already know your operation, and now have the capability to help you efficiently manage agronomic and risk-management planning for the coming year.
Learn More >Grain Marketing
Growers in our region can depend on MFA’s grain system to sell and store their crop. MFA’s Grain Division offers a variety of grain marketing contracts along with experts who can help producers minimize risk and enhance profitability in today’s volatile commodity marketplace.
Learn More >In-season N for the win
Split applications, Nutri-Track tools help limit nutrient loss, push crop yields
What can I do to be more profitable? How can I grow more bushels on the acres I’m currently farming? Those are a couple of questions many farmers find themselves asking. Having a solid plan for nitrogen inputs and using industry-leading technology such as MFA Nutri-Track N is a good place to start.
There is a growing trend to split nitrogen applications. This practice spreads out the fertilizer investment risk and limits potential nitrogen loss due to many factors we cannot control. Splitting nitrogen applications is also good stewardship because growers are putting the nutrient down at the right time for plant uptake.
In the past, many producers applied most—if not all—of their N in the fall, allowing that to carry them all season long. Now, more progressive producers are moving away from a single nitrogen application and coming back after the crop is planted with a sidedress or topdress application, typically a flat rate of 40 to 80 pounds of nitrogen per acre.
This is heading down the correct path, but Nutri-Track N can take it a step further. This complete nitrogen management tool allows growers and agronomists to put their heads together to come up with the best possible in-season N recommendation on a given acre. It complements the MFA Nutri-Track system by allowing seamless data transfer from one program to another, including soil properties and sample results. Along with this data, the Nutri-Track N system figures in local rainfall events to show the effect moisture has on nitrogen applied within that field.
With these reports in hand, growers can follow through with the recommendation provided, only editing it with parameters you feel comfortable with, such as a minimum and maximum rate. Or they can use the data provided to determine a more precise flat-rate option. The Nutri-Track N recommendation can help you make a knowledgeable decision.
After determining when it’s time to apply nitrogen, the recommendation can be exported to any controller. Nutri-Track N also has the ability to generate reports by field to print for MFA or grower record-keeping. After the application is made, we continue to monitor nitrogen throughout the season.
Talk with your local MFA agronomist or precision specialist to learn more about what Nutri-Track N can do for you and your operation.
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