Ryan Bates

Agronomist for Pioneer®. Profile and tweets are my own and not of my employer. Also own and operate a few acres in tandem with the family farm.

[Ryan Bates @rtb175]

How much is corn growing in 24 hours right now? Spray some plants and see. Great visual to demonstrate crop growth. (Picked this up from someone on Twitter this weekend so thank you)

[Eric Church @ericchurch]

Eric took the stage at UNC Chapel Hill to deliver a commencement speech to the next generation of Tar Heels, sharing a message for the graduates as they step into what comes next.

Watch the speech in its entirety here: https://t.co/DbqOdqiymt

[Brady @BradyD78]

Crazy Stat of the Week: 0.81

This is the correlation between managed money net positions and the corn price from June of 24' to Feb of 26'. 🤯🤯

[Terry Daynard @TerryDaynard]

For those considering purchase of a "biological" for soil P liberation, this overview is an essential read, "Phosphate-solubilising microorganisms for improved crop productivity: a critical assessment" https://t.co/ax5K7LUQV6
h/t @karidunfield

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Lake Erie is currently 96% ice-covered. 🧊

Within a few days, it could very well hit 100%. That has not happened in 30 years.

[Precision Planting @PrecisionPlant]

The news is out: Introducing ArrowTube™
ArrowTube maximizes each plant's ability to emerge uniformly and capture sunlight by placing seeds in an optimal orientation without sacrificing depth, spacing or singulation, boosting yield potential.
Learn more ‣ https://t.co/ZnSxVwn7CZ

[Inkblot Sports (Philip Myers) @InkblotSports]

The NCAA or NAIA football team with the best record in each state for the 2025 season:

[Philip Shaw @Agridome]

Cash Corn Basis Jan 7, 2025 @commodityweek

[Keith Grabowski 🏈 Coach and Coordinator Network @CoachKGrabowski]

UW–River Falls @UWRFFootball didn’t win the D3 national title by reinventing their offense.

They won by evolving it with discipline.
How OC @CoachJMath protected identity, layered answers, and built clarity under pressure.

Read more: https://t.co/eq5VomO0NV

[Ryan Bates @rtb175]

UWRF D3 National Champions!!

[Falcon Football @UWRFFootball]

Another one for QB1. 🏆

After surpassing Joe Burrow’s record of 6039 yards (2019), Kaleb Blaha is officially the record holder in all of college football for total offense in a single-season.

#falconfootball

[UW-River Falls Athletics @UWRFFalcons]

𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗺 𝗨𝗽, 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 🏆🏈

A belief that became a reality! UW-River Falls Football has claimed the 2025 NCAA Division III National Championship 😤👏

#FFT #d3fb

[The Gagliardi Trophy @GagliardiTrophy]

Congratulations to the 2025 Gagliardi Trophy presented by Stearns Bank winner, @UWRFFalcons quarterback Kaleb Blaha!

#GagliardiTrophy | #d3fb

[Reuters Ag News @ReutersAg]

Soy trading firms to abandon Amazon protection pact in Brazil - https://t.co/jNs04jTFef

[Shawn Conley @badgerbean]

Winners of the @WISoybean Yield Contest! https://t.co/kDWX1Ij5zt

[Bob Gunzenhauser @BobGunzy]

Another fertility knowledge drop from ICM Conference: Luke Fuhrer and Doug Houser from @ISUDigitalAg shared research work on dry fertilizer spinner application accuracy.

Implications for “precision” fertilizer application? Can this be improved?

[Mark Dorenkamp @BRNAgNews_Mark]

.@PioneerSeeds agronomy innovation manager Ryan Bates tells @brownfield #farmers face a balancing act during #Harvest25 of #corn yield vs moisture https://t.co/sm1EA7c2IZ #agnews

[Susan Stroud @SusanNOBULL]

Fascinating chart: A Century of US Row Crop Area🚜

From 1925 to 1975
#corn area -24M ac (-25%)
#soybeans area +53M ac (+3450%)

1975 to Present
🌽Corn +20M ac (+25%)
🌱Soybeans +27M ac (+50%)

2025
🌽98.7M - largest area since 1936
🌱81.1M - 6yr low but 11th largest on record

[Rodrigo Werle @WiscWeeds]

🚨 New research from the #WiscWeeds lab!

We confirmed the first Wisconsin case of #waterhemp resistance to PPO-inhibiting herbicides (Group 14) applied preemergence.

👉 Waterhemp accession A92 from Dodge County, WI showed reduced sensitivity to sulfentrazone and fomesafen applied preemergence and to fomesafen and lactofen applied postemergence.

👉 Resistance was not linked to any known target-site PPX1 or PPX2 mutations, pointing to likely non-target site mechanisms (e.g., cytochrome P450s or GSTs).

Important @WISoyCheckoff funded work led by Dr. Felipe Faleco (@FFaleco, former #WiscWeeds PhD student), in partnership with Dr. Pat Tranel’s Molecular Weed Science lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign @IllinoisCropSci.

📄 @FFaleco et al. 2025. Resistance to protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors applied preemergence or postemergence to waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus). Weed Science. 73(1):e73. @WorldofWeeds

🔗 Read here (#OpenAccess) → https://t.co/tTMExasFNr

[Ryan Bates @rtb175]

@_TheMizzouTiger Early Sept killing frost and then a heat wave in the north. Lot of soybeans harvested like last fall. 8-10% moisture with some leaves still on them. Corn was premature killed but dried down and turned out okay.