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Water management, and by default, air management in soils and crop production, is often an underappreciated factor in developing a successful agronomic plan. As so often occurs in any industry, the majority of attention is focused on where the bulk of the money is swallowed up. Fertilizer inputs tend to be one of the perennial favorites for spending, and it automatically attracts the attention of consultants and growers alike.

Kyle’s soils are the kind most experts consider limiting - very sandy, coarse, low single‑digit CEC, low organic matter. Yet three years after adopting the System, Kyle won the NCGA Michigan No‑Till Irrigated Yield Award with a 296‑bushel corn crop.

In agriculture, it’s easy to believe the next product will be the one that finally changes everything. A new input. A new recommendation. A new “fix.” But after years of on‑farm trials and real‑world testing, Jeff Ellis of PJ Family Farms reached a different conclusion: there is no silver bullet. Jeff and his wife Paula farm approximately 1,700 acres near Donnelson, Iowa. By 2016, they weren’t interested in adding another product.