By Brian Hefty

Have you downloaded our free Ag PhD apps for your smartphone or iPad?  A couple years ago, I was pretty resistant to taking time to develop some apps.  Fortunately, Darren kept pushing me that this was a good idea, and now there is hardly a day that goes by that I don’t use one of our apps myself.  We are currently developing several more apps to do things like quickly and easily Watch Ag PhD TV, see Growing Degree Days for your area, Calculate Corn Yield, and Calculate ROI, among others.  Here is a list of the 5 apps we have available today:

  1. Field Guide– We worked in conjunction with FMC on this one, and we appreciate their help.  In the Field Guide app, you can select a weed and look at the recommendations Darren and I have to identify and control that weed.  You’ll also find FMC’s HatchTrak and our Ag PhD Daily Crop Scouting Reports and Radio Updates.  We plan to add insect identification and control tips this year.

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    The Ag PhD Field Guide is available now. Versions for iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® devices can be downloaded from the Apple iTunes Store. Android versions can be downloaded from the Google Play Store.

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  2. Fertilizer Removal by Crop Corn ExampleFertilizer Removal– Select your crop, enter your yield goal, and you’ll see how many nutrients that crop will remove for the grain, the stover, and the total of the two.  This is where a fertility program for any farm should start.  Agro-Culture Liquid Fertilizer and the International Plant Nutrition Institute helped us to develop this app, and we are grateful for their contributions.

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  3. Drainage Tile Calculator – Replace your old slide rule with this easier-to-operate tool.  You can even calculate the pump size you need for a lift station, among a host of other things.  We will soon be adding a section in this app to give you lots of information and research to share with your neighbors and non-farmers about all the benefits of tiling when it is installed correctly.

    Download Today

    The Ag PhD Drainage Tile Calculator app is available now. Versions for iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® devices can be downloaded from the Apple iTunes Store. Android apps can be downloaded from the Google Play Store.

    Apple Devices – Click Here

    Android Devices – Click Here

  4. Planting Population – For this app and the Harvest Loss app we worked with Case IH, and we thank them for their help.  This app should be used on a regular basis during planting season.

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    The Ag PhD Planting Population Calculator app is available now. Versions for iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® devices can be downloaded from the Apple iTunes Store. Android apps can be downloaded from the Google Play Store.

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    Android Devices – Click Here

  5. Harvest Loss – I know it is more fun to keep the combine rolling, but it is more important to regularly check your harvest loss.  This app not only shows you how many bushels you are losing based on your harvest loss, but how many dollars that amounts to.

    Download Today

    The Ag PhD Harvest Loss Calculator app is available now. Versions for iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® devices can be downloaded from the Apple iTunes Store. Android apps can be downloaded from the Google Play Store.

    Apple Devices – Click Here

    Android Devices – Click Here

Smartphones are tremendously powerful tools that allow you to scout your fields, immediately send pictures to us to help you identify weeds or other issues, mark GPS locations in fields, learn what soil type you are standing on right now, store lots of important data, give you an extra flashlight whenever you need it, and lots more.  Also, don’t forget about the pocket Bible for your smartphone because we can all use some heavenly intervention each growing season.  As a farmer, I believe you will find great benefit from using a smartphone, and I am confident you’ll find our free Ag PhD apps useful in your operation.  Please download them today.