Farmland
DuMond Ag
Optimizing our environment and soil health in the Finger Lakes region.
Farming built on innovation
DuMond Ag, LLC is a crop production entity operating approximately 6,000 acres of farmland primarily in Cayuga County, New York. Our main crops each year include corn, wheat and soybeans. We also supplement these products with a small amount of alfalfa for conservation purposes.
In addition, within DuMond Ag we operate a small cover crop seed sales business, largely to expand the knowledge and use of cover crops within the local agricultural community. Through this off-shoot business, we hope to raise awareness of the positive effects of cover crop use, minimize soil erosion and improve the overall soil health of the Finger Lakes region.
At DuMond Ag we also feel strongly that precision technology and application play a vital role in the progression of agriculture. We pride ourselves on our willingness to challenge past decisions, make changes and improvements, and learn from our successes – as well as our failures.
In agriculture, no two years are alike. It’s impossible to know Mother Nature’s plan for the upcoming growing season. As a result, we focus intensely on studying our variable soils, as they remain relatively constant from year to year. We work to develop intricate soil models, in an effort to optimize the timing, type, utilization and placement of our valuable inputs. This process allows us to protect our environment and be good stewards of our investment.
From these models, we develop VRL (variable rate layers), which we can then input into our application equipment that is taken to the field. Our goal each year is not to have the highest yield; rather, it is to have the greatest return on our investment for each small subset of every acre we farm—all with minimal environmental impact. We work to understand the nutrient holding capacity of the soils and apply to our fields accordingly. Stabilizing the nutrients is one of our highest priorities.
We pride ourselves on high-quality approaches and products and provide our landlords, current and future, with a complete list of all that is applied to the land when it is farmed by DuMond Ag.
Here at DuMond Ag, we operate a fleet of modern John Deere equipment and machinery, where every major power unit is fully equipped with high accuracy GPS placement from our RTK network. Each of our machines is also equipped with Auto Track, section/swath control and rate controls. These features allow us to optimally place our inputs with very minimal overlap and waste. Much of our equipment is programmed to work 60-inch sections, which provides extremely precise control in our small, angular fields.
Any and all products that are applied to DuMond Ag soil are spatially mapped, recorded and stored for future tracking and further efficacy testing and analysis.
Our corn is planted in 20-inch rows, or “narrow rows,” each year. This is less than the standard planting width of 30 inches. Doing so allows us to reap the benefits of our equipment and operational costs, herbicide reduction and erosion control.
At DuMond Ag, we do plant and harvest non-GMO crops allowing us to offer non-GMO and GMO Cornmeal and Roasted Soybean Meal to local dairies looking to produce non-GMO and GMO milk alike.
