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Growing Relationships to Maximize Success!™

IASInnovative Advanced Solutions™

To Our Valued Customer,

Innovative Ag Services is dedicated to our purpose of Growing Relationships to Maximize Success. We understand that the responsibility of feeding the world’s growing population rests in the very hands of the people we work with every day. In order to help you reach your full yield potential, we must take a step back and understand what is really going on in your fields. This is why we developed our Innovative Advanced Solutions platform.

We believe that we need to grow our relationships to continue generating more output for our growers, offer new and proven products, give industry leading expertise and continue to make our business more efficient. This will then maximize the success of our growers and our business. Innovative Advanced Solutions is our platform for delivering Innovative Crop Care to enhance yields, Advanced Precision to measure and manage inputs across your fields, and Seed Solutions to specifically place seed to reach its maximum potential.

Innovative Crop Care will focus on yield enhancing products, technology and management practices that will be evaluated locally by our growers and measured with Advanced Precision tools. Our Advanced Precision menu and toolbox will assist in optimally managing all crop inputs including soil tests, soil types, seed selection and population, and nutrient needs throughout the growing season along with measuring results. Seed Solutions will be focused on product placement based on multiple factors including genetic diversity to manage risk and a focus on seed throughout the growing season to make the best agronomic decisions.

The topics that we mentioned above are the main advantages of using Innovative Advanced Solutions today. As we continue to live our purpose of Growing Relationships to Maximize Success, we will continue to add new technologies and information to enhance Innovative Ag’s value for our growers.

- IAS Agronomy Team

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Innovative Crop Care

Advanced Precision

Seed Solutions

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Innovative Ag Services is your information and data management resource. IAS has been a precision ag leader for more than 17 years with a very experienced precision ag team. Fertility management is the foundation of our Innovative Advanced Solution’s menu with multiple menu options including variable rate fertilizer application, variable rate seed placement, and data analysis programs to assist in making the best management decisions. Most IAS Innovative Advanced Solutions resources are managed and completed internally to minimize any time delay in making important decisions and adjustments to recommendations. Our IAS Team looks forward to helping you sort through the complexity of precision ag to make well informed decisions and recommendations for your fields.

Innovative Advanced Solutions also has a developing precision ag equipment division providing sales and service for a number of technology equipment lines.

Advanced Precision


Advanced Precision

• Grid soil sampling with recommendations• Soil sample analysis maps• Basic yield maps

• Full service crop scouting - Emergence to August 1st

• Electronic reports emailed directly from field • Geo-referenced• Grid soil sampling with recommendations• Soil sample analysis maps• VR planting maps and recommendations• Data driven fertility recommendations including crop removal• Enhanced yield maps• Yield analysis reports by field/by grower by IAS group data

• VR planting maps and recommendations• Data driven fertility recommendations including crop removal• Enhanced yield maps• Yield analysis reports by field/by grower by IAS group data• Grid soil sampling with recommendations• Soil sample analysis maps


The IAS Bronze Program is the foundation on which the Innovative Advanced Solutions platform is built on. Our platform starts out by obtaining a quality grid soil sample test followed by nutrient recommendations and yield maps.

• Grid soil sampling with recommendations• Soil sample analysis maps• Basic yield maps


Soil Test Map

Fertilizer Application Prescription (Rx) Map

Yield Map


The IAS Silver Program takes the information that we have gathered from the Bronze Program, and takes it to the next level. By using multiple years of yield data we can develop more tools such as a Spatial Trend map that identifies areas of the field that performed above or below the average yield during the years selected. We can look at Management Zone maps that can identify areas consistently high, average or low in yield performance as well as areas of the field that are inconsistent over time.

We then can use this knowledge to help you create precision tools such as variable planting and nutrient prescriptions.

After harvest, reports will be created that show yield by certain variables such as yield by hybrid/variety, yield by nutrient level, yield by planting date, etc. All of this information will be gathered from your farming operation as well as from a pool of other growers participating in the program. The true power of our program is in the group data.

Below are a few examples of the reports generated:

• VR planting maps and recommendations• Data driven fertility recommendations including crop removal• Enhanced yield maps*• Yield analysis reports by field/by grower/ by IAS group data** • Grid soil sampling with recommendations• Soil sample analysis maps


Multi Year Spatial Trend Map

Planting Prescription (Rx) Map

Hybrid Tracking Map

*Enhanced Yield Maps • Spatial Trends • Temporal Stability Map • Management Units • Means Table • Correlation Matrix

**Yield Analysis Reports by Field/by Grower/by IAS Group Data • Yield by Soil Type • Yield by Variety • Yield by Variety by Soil Type • Yield by Soil Type by Variety • Yield by Planting Date • Yield by Relative Maturity • Yield by Seed Company • Yield by Soil P • Yield by Soil K • Yield by Organic Matter • Yield by pH


Innovative Advanced Solutions Gold Program will also incorporate crop scouting services. These services will include pre-season planning, full season scouting services, detailed reports by field, and a field summary at the end of the growing season. IAS will report information in a digital format with the ability to incorporate our crop scouting services into the overall Innovative Advanced Solutions platform.

• Full service crop scouting - Emergence to August 1st

• Electronic reports emailed directly from field • Geo-referenced• Grid soil sampling with recommendations• Soil sample analysis maps• VR planting maps and recommendations• Data driven fertility recommendations including crop removal• Enhanced yield maps• Yield analysis reports by field/by grower by IAS group data


Let us be your eyes in the field!Let us be your

eyes in the field!

Receive Realtime Scouting Reports!

Receive Realtime Scouting Reports!


Precision Ag Equipment

Variable Rate Planting

Hydraulic Drive

Variable Rate Planting requires a Hydraulic Seed Drive, GPS and a Precision Ag Display. With these components installed, IAS can supply you with a Variable Rate recommendation tailored to your yield goals.

Innovative Ag Services offers a wide variety of precision ag products and services to meet your needs on and off the field. This equipment will enhance your Innovative Advanced Solutions experience allowing you to utilize the data you receive during planting, harvest and everything in between to make more informed decisions in your fields.

Our Precision Ag Specialists will work with you during installation and will also be available for service as well. To learn more about our precision ag products and services, please contact your nearest location.


Flat rate fertilizer application can easily become Variable Rate application. Once again, IAS can write the VR Prescription for your system. Kits are available for Liquid Application, Strip Till and Spinner Spreader Applications on your farm.

The IAS precision team can also add Machine Guidance, Steering, Population Monitoring, Auto Section Control for planting and application along with Boom Height and Chemical Injection.

Yield Monitoring

Yield Monitoring and Mapping is the staple to Precision Ag Management. IAS can utilize yield data from various installed systems such as Ag Leader, John Deere, Case AFS, and Agco Fieldstar. If a yield monitoring system is not present, we can install a kit to fit almost every make and model combine.

Guidance/Autosteer


Seed Solutions

Product placement will begin with the data insights you have acquired through Advanced Precision. Your IAS Agronomy Advisor will work with you considering your yield environment and goals, soil fertility, seed population, crop systems, seed traits, along with seed treatments and inoculants. We feel seed product placement is critical to your success and will work closely with you building a placement plan that maximizes the yield potential of the hybrids and varieties you select.

Product Placement

Genetic Diversity

Year Round Focus

The IAS Agronomy Advisor Team has access to and will utilize a diverse genetic base of seeds including multiple product lines and various genotypes. Matching the right genetics to your placement and population decisions will help you manage risks throughout the year and continue to build upon a strong Seed Solution.

IAS is committed to focusing on managing seed throughout the year to monitor and track the seed decisions made through a systematic seed planning process. Your IAS Agronomy Advisor will work with you on selection and placement, using all the tools and information available to make timely agronomic decisions, assist with in-field diagnostics along with confirming decisions made and measuring results.

• Data Driven Results • Yield Environment • Soil and Fertility Consideration • Cropping Systems • Trait Utilization • Seed Treatments and Inoculants • Population/Variable Rate

• Risk Management • Multiple Product Lines and Brands • Various Genotypes

• Timely Agronomic Decision Making • In-field Diagnostics • Confirm Input Decisions and Results • Product Selection and Procurement • Systems Approach


The IAS Sales Team has a number of tools to assist you in making seed decisions for your fields. It is our goal to source as much information as possible from our seed suppliers, along with your input, to make the best seed decisions to maximize yield and profitability on all your seed acres. We will work with you to determine the right genetics for the right soil type at the right plant population in the right cropping system with the right traits fed the right plant nutrition and defended with the right crop protection. We look forward to customizing solutions with the use of technology and your experience to help manage your field’s potential. Your local yield data combined with Answer Plot research trials, innovative products and management programs, and the IAS Innovative Advanced Solutions platform are all resources we will use to make the best decisions for your farming operation.

Maximizing Yield and Profitability

IAS Yield Potential Map

Variable-Rate Seeding Prescription


Be a part ofInnovativeCrop Care!

Be a part ofInnovativeCrop Care!

An integral part of our Innovative Advanced Solutions program is the opportunity to experience and gain access and insight into information on new technologies, products and management practices that may offer Yield Enhancment and profitability to your crop operations. There are a number of new products and technologies in the market place every year and it is our goal to invest some resources into analyzing the information available to provide the best opportunity for our growers to enhance yield and return on investment. We will also focus on bringing proven management practices to your farm. We realize that it is important to utilize a Localized Approach so we are able to understand these new and improved products and how they work in our area. We will work with our Evaluation Team who are a select group of tomorrow’s growers that will be able to be the first to experience new products and technology to gain the best understanding of what will work for your operation.

Innovative Crop Care


Want to be a part of the Evaluation Team?

Do you think you have what it takes to be a part of Innovative Crop Care’s Evaluation team? We are looking for growers who are excited to be on the front line of the leading edge products and technology that are entering the industry. Contact your Innovative Ag Services Agronomy Advisor for more details.

Want to be a part of the Evaluation Team?

Yield Enhancement • New and emerging products and technology • Implement underutilized practices, products and technologies • Yield enhancing products • Enhanced management practices

Evaluation Team • Innovative growers of tomorrow • Incremental yield focused • Willing to follow protocol • Like-minded growers • Leading Edge Trials

Localized Approach • Local application • Local insights • Use of Advanced Precision tools


10. Harvest management – proper setting of harvest equipment is crucial and should be adjusted based on field conditions. Ideal harvest moisture is 13.5% (start harvesting when moisture is nearing 14% and try to complete before moisture is below 12% to minimize harvest loss. Set reel speed 25% faster than ground speed (up to 50% if beans are lodged).

1. Field selection – select fields that are well drained to prevent moisture and minimize disease.

2. Fertility – soybeans prefer a pH around 6.5 and fertilize based on soil test (especially potassium). Soil test and manage for soybean cyst nematodes (SCN).

3. Rotation – rotate soybeans after any crop other than soybeans. If possible plant soybeans into fields that have been continuous corn for at least 4 years. Inoculating with a Rhizobium product may be a consideration.

4. Variety selection – the IAS team can help choose varieties that have demonstrated high yield potential along with a well rounded agronomic package to manage for the ever changing stresses in each field. Select varieties on a field by field basis. Look for protection against common diseases (Brown Stem Rot, Phytophthora Root Rot, Sudden Death Syndrome, and Soybean Cyst Nematode resistance).

5. Tillage and planting – conventional or shallow tillage helps improve seedling emergence. Use a planter with row units or a drill that can control planting depth accurately. Plant soybeans in rows of less than 30”. Planting depth should be between 1–11/2” and no greater than 2”.

6. Planting dates – early planting dates offer the highest yield potential. For early planting, plant a medium height or shorter soybean with good SDS ratings. Later planted soybeans may not have as much SDS pressure but some yield potential may be sacrificed.

7. Seed treatments – seed treatments will protect the seed and seedlings from adverse environmental conditions and enhance disease and insect protection.

8. Weed management – keep fields weed free and manage weeds early to promote canopy development. Use a pre-emergence herbicide with residual control and apply post emergence herbicides as early as possible to prevent any flower abortion.

9. Fungicide and insecticide – apply labeled rates of fungicide to control diseases and improve plant health. Control insects early and apply insecticides when insect thresholds are met. Scout fields on a weekly basis to keep ahead of yield robbing pests.

Soybean Best Management Practices


Soybean Best Management Practices

1. Residue management, tillage, and soil drainage

• One of the key steps in to reduce the yield penalty of continuous corn is to reduce the amount of residue. Aggressive fall tillage accelerates residue breakdown and the source of allelopathic compounds. Less residue can also result in a more favorable seedbed and better seedling emergence.

• Strip tillage coupled with planter equipped with row cleaners has also been a successful strategy for some producers.

• Fields that have good drainage, tiling, and low compaction and are good candidates for continuous corn as they will tend to have better residue breakdown, leaching of allelopathic compounds, and seedbed conditions.

2. Hybrid selection and seeding rate

• Hybrids are screened for characteristics that make them suited for continuous corn (rootworm traits, seedling vigor, root and foliar disease resistance). An IAS agronomist can help you choose the best possible hybrid and trait package for your farms. As they match the hybrids for your field they can give you recommendations for planting populations to maximize profitability.

3. Fertility management

• Nitrogen management is a critical step for continuous corn producers. Continuous corn typically requires a higher N rate for an optimum yield than a corn-soy rotation. To correctly manage nitrogen for continuous corn producers, IAS recommends stabilizing an early nitrogen application, and following up with a side dress application later in the season. We also recommend foliar application while applying fungicide if increased nitrogen is needed.

• For P and K, IAS recommends grid sampling to get a base line of where your nutrient levels are. We recommend following the Variable Rate recommended by the grid samples. IAS also recommends adding Avail to your Phosphate application to allow the application to be more available the first year.

• Starter fertilizers can help give corn on corn stands an early boost, IAS offers several different products for each individual need such as 10-34-0, 7-18-6-2-.5 for Sulfur and Zinc, or 9-18-5.

• High yielding corn - corn fields will mine the soil of P as well as secondary and micronutrients such as sulfur and zinc. To address sulfur and zinc requirements, IAS recommends Wolf Trax, Foliar options such as Smart Trio, Ammonium Thiosulfate for use with UAN, and Ammonium Sulfate for application with dry fertilizer.

4. Insect management

• Corn rootworm pressure seems to be increasing the past couple of years across the Midwest regardless of the rotation or hybrid’s rootworm trait. This requires a vigilant plan for the continuous corn producer. To manage corn rootworms, IAS recommends using hybrids with at least one rootworm trait, if not two. We have also experienced the need to supplement the protection with a soil insecticide such as Force 3G, Force CS, Aztec, Smartchoice, Lorsban 15G, and Capture LFR.

• In addition to the rootworm traits, our hybrids have the seed treatments to protect against wireworms, grubs, cutworms, etc that are more common in continuous corn.

5. Disease management

• Many continuous corn producers have also found that foliar fungicides such as Headline, Quadris and

Stratego Yield applied from V4-V8 have greatly improved plant health, stalk strength and increased yield on average of 4-8 bu/acre.

• Fungicides applied at VT-R2 have been consistent performers, especially for continuous corn producers in high production areas. IAS has seen an average yield response of 8-14 bu/acre for late season fungicide applications with Headline AMP, Quilt Xcel and Stratego YLD.

Many producers in the Midwest and in Iowa have made a successful transition from a corn – soybean rotation to continuous corn production. This presents some unique challenges, but if done on the right acre with the appropriate agronomic practices, continuous corn can be very profitable. IAS agronomists can work with you to develop a successful, profitable continuous corn plan. The following are among the best practices for continuous corn:

Best Practices for Continuous Corn


1. PRE herbicides in both corn and soybeans • IAS offers and recommends a comprehensive approach including full rates of products that are the first and best line of defense against resistant weeds • Soy PRE’s: Optill Pro, Prefix, Boundary, Sonic, Warrant, and Prowl H2O • Corn PRE’s : Lumax, Lexar, Verdict, Triple Flex, Surestart, Corvus, and Harness Xtra 2. Utilize products with limited or no current resistance • While glyphosate resistance has received a lot of attention, there are many products that control resistant weeds • Examples: Liberty, Warrant, Outlook, Harness, Dual, Prowl, Treflan, and Status 3. Rotate modes of action • There are a myriad of products to choose from, but many of them use the same mode of action. Repeated use of products that have the same mode of action is a path to weed resistance. • IAS staff will help design a weed control program that uses several modes of action. 4. Utilize the corn crop rotation • There are a wider range of products that can be used in corn to address difficult weeds such as waterhemp and marestail, thereby setting the stage for fewer problems in soybeans. 5. Have a plan B ready • Sometimes Mother Nature can make it difficult to get all of the PRE herbicides applied before the corn or soybeans are out of the ground. When that happens, several residual herbicides can still be applied such as (Warrant, Outlook, etc).

6. Manage POST applications correctly • Post-emerge products can be a great tool to manage weed escapes and late emerging weeds, but they need to be applied at the right time to ensure best control. 7. Prioritize scouting • Preventing weed resistance requires vigilance: making sure herbicides are working and escapes are being controlled before they go to seed.

8. Use the fall and early spring burndown windows • For no-till producers, fall and early spring can be the best time to control winter annuals such as marestail and perennial weeds such as dandelion; as well as spread out the workload. 9. Cultural practices • Tillage, narrow row spacing, incorporating herbicides such as Prowl and Treflan, controlling weeds on fence lines and terraces, hand weeding late season escapes, and even field cultivation are all tools that need to be evaluated. 10. Develop a plan and stick to it • Preventing weed resistance requires a comprehensive plan. Agronomists at IAS will work with you to develop a plan that meets the goals of your operation.

The following describes how dramatically a resistant waterhemp population can explode in three seasons.

• If a single waterhemp plant/acre survives a herbicide application, it can easily produce 100,000 seeds.*

• If 25% of those seeds emerge next season and 10% are resistant, 2,500 plants could survive and produce 100,000 seeds each.

• If 25% of the seeds emerge next season and 10% are resistant, 6.25 million plants could survive and produce seed.

• Minor concern to major problem in the span of three years.

It is critical to obtain 99 to 100% weed control to manage resistant waterhemp populations

*Conservative number since a single plant can produce >1 million seed

Why is Waterhemp Such a Problem?

Stay ahead of the Weed Battle

“Waterhemp Mathematics”Dr. Jeff Stachler, NDSU and U of MN

Waterhemp resistance is becoming a major problem for soybean producers in the Midwest


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319-465-3501

Platteville

608-348-2671

Hazel Green

608-854-2313

Oran

319-638-7551

Manchester

563-927-3012

Owasa

641-648-2017

Union

641-486-5314

Hubbard

641-864-2266

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563-539-2001

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641-823-4425

Waukon

653-568-3455

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641-847-3566

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515-854-2735

Winthrop

319-935-3031

Andrew

563-672-3228Central City

319-438-6194

Ellsworth

641-847-2362

Alden

515-859-3346Austinville

641-847-2832Cleves

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563-852-7245

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