One farmer in Kansas is taking precision planting to a different level. Ormiston Farms has taken regular fields of sorghum and turned them into works of art.
Mike Hulett has worn many hats throughout his 24-year career in the produce industry, from working on the family farm when needed to brokering fruit to being a grower-shipper to serving as a category director of produce merchandising for the world’s largest grocery chain.
Now, he is tapping into that well-rounded background as he looks to reshape Farm Fresh Direct and position it for future growth.
Brock Neville
FIRST APPLICATION: The corn was ready for the first application of over-the-top herbicide and fungicide on July 18. The brothers added two more aerial applications of fungicide before harvest. Sedgwick County, Kan., brothers experiment with double-cropping corn behind wheat.
Brock and Cody Neville have grown up farming in western Sedgwick County, Kan. first as children following their father around, learning the ins and outs of dealing with the blows of nature and markets.
When the brothers noticed that the full-season soybeans they planted in two of their fields just didn’t perform well, they started investigating the cause. What they learned was that the irrigation water they were using was high in salt content.