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A nationally recognized high yielding grain farmer says his secret to high producing crops is tissue sampling.

Don Stall farms a couple thousand acres near Charlotte in Mid-Michigan and has won several state and national corn and soybean yield contests.  He tells Brownfield he treats each growing season with a blank slate and takes tissues samples every seven to ten days throughout the season.  “Normally we’ll feed the crop based upon actual yield, what we removed, and with a tissue test we adjust from there.”

Stall says because he regularly soil samples, during years of tight margins he has a better idea of what inputs can be reduced. 

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