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The TAPS National Competition Comes to Life in 2026 Colby, Kansas, is not an easy place to farm, and that is exactly why it matters. Rainfall is limited and unpredictable, and most years it arrives at the wrong time. What built this region into one of the most productive agricultural systems in the world was not…
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As teams prepare to submit their first decisions in the 2026 KSU-TAPS Corn Water Utilization Competition, seeding rate is one of the earliest and most important choices they will make. It is also one of the most revealing. Seeding rate signals how a team is thinking about yield potential, water use, input efficiency, and risk.…
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Testing Ag Performance Solutions (TAPS™) will be featured in multiple sessions at CANVAS 2025 this November in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since its launch in 2017, TAPS™ has grown into a multi-state, farmer-driven initiative where producers manage plots as if they were their own farms—making decisions on irrigation, nitrogen, seeding, and technology. With more than…
