Crop Quest

Upcoming Event: Grower Focus – Dodge City, KS

Krissy Lampe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:10:26 +0000

Grower Focus 2026: Legacy Planning, Land Transitions, and Section 180 Crop Quest is excited to host Grower Focus 2026, a one day event designed for farmers, landowners, accountants, and real estate professionals. Today’s ag decisions extend far beyond the next crop year. Strong land values, tax implications, ownership structures, and family dynamics all influence how [...]

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Fertilizing Your Wheat Crop Based on Solid Data

Krissy Lampe — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:18:57 +0000

With wheat harvest barely in the rearview mirror, it is not too early to start thinking about next year’s wheat crop. That starts with knowing the nutrient levels in your fields. Whether you are planning on planting in fallow ground, or planting continuous wheat, it is important to have the information necessary to fertilize each [...]

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Thinking About Double Cropping After Wheat?

Krissy Lampe — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:01:46 +0000

Thinking about double cropping after wheat this season? Here are a few things to consider before planting a second crop. In many areas across the High Plains, we have been blessed with good rains that have helped refill soil moisture profiles. For some areas, this brings the opportunity to consider double cropping into wheat stubble [...]

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Early Action, Better Yields

Krissy Lampe — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:02:52 +0000

Attaining good weed control is essential for maintaining maximum yield potential. Weeds are one of the biggest robbers of yield that we have. Left unchecked, weed competition can cause upwards of 50-80% yield reduction. Even getting 90-95% control of weeds can still cause up to 15% yield reduction, especially if weeds are present in the [...]

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Planting Precisely: One Shot is All You Got!

Krissy Lampe — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:29:36 +0000

Planting is one of the most critical jobs of the season. You only get one chance to place each seed in the right spot, and the details matter. Small adjustments can make a big difference in emergence, uniformity, and ultimately, yield. At Crop Quest, our agronomists work alongside farmers to evaluate planting conditions and provide [...]

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Optimizing Farm Inputs for Efficiency During Low Commodity Prices

Krissy Lampe — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:29:05 +0000

The Challenge of Low Commodity Prices Lower commodity prices mean that farmers are put in a position to make tough decisions when it comes to figuring out how to make ends meet. That is not an easy task when our goal is to make sure overall yields do not suffer due to these decisions. Balancing [...]

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Purchasing Value

Krissy Lampe — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:29:33 +0000

The True Value of Purchasing Decisions When it comes to purchasing items, none us of want to overpay for a product or service. People often say they are looking for the cheapest route. In reality, it is not ‘cheap’ we seek, but value. If you know that a certain expense will give you a return [...]

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Tax Deductions Available for Residual Fertility on Purchased Land

Krissy Lampe — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:35:47 +0000

When we typically think of grid sampling, our goal is to locate where nutrients are deficient and in excess across a field. This allows us to target fertilizer applications only to areas that require additional fertilizer and take advantage of the excess nutrients in other areas of the field by reducing the amount of fertilizer [...]

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Optimize Field Drainage for Better Crop Yields with Precision Mapping

Krissy Lampe — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:31:43 +0000

Do you have areas of your fields where water sits for long periods of time after a rain event? Are there areas that drain slowly, or maybe runoff too quickly causing erosion? These areas typically lead to less production, or no production in certain years. There are some innovative ways to eliminate or minimize these [...]

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Managing Alfalfa Caterpillars

Krissy Lampe — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:01:09 +0000

What are all those little yellow butterflies that we see around hay fields during mid to late summer? They are commonly known as Sulfur Butterflies. Although there are a few different species of Sulfur Butterflies, the more common ones near alfalfa or clover fields are most likely Alfalfa Butterflies or Orange Sulfurs. In the larval [...]

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