Josh Mays


Josh Mays
Joshua Mays - Corporate Agronomist for TriEst Ag Group.
He focuses on providing sales and product support through agronomic research, crop production systems development, and soil fertility practices. Josh has worked predominately with commodity and specialty crop production in North Carolina.

Ag News: A Blog To Keep You Updated On Triest's Agricultural Research and other Initiatives.

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Can a Soil Fumigant be used as a Biostimulant in Agriculture?

At TriEst Ag Group we're trying to find those answers. Josh Mays, our agronomist, and Josh Freeman, our Regional Sales Manager, go into further depth on this topic and our findings.

At TriEst Ag Group we're trying to find those answers. Josh Mays, our agronomist, and Josh Freeman, our Regional Sales Manager, go into further depth on this topic and our findings.

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Can a soil fumigant be used as a biostimulant in agriculture?

Can a soil fumigant be used as a biostimulant in agriculture? At TriEst Ag Group we're trying to find those answers. Josh Mays, our agronomist, and Josh Freeman, our Regional Sales Manager, go into further depth on this topic and our findings.

3/17/2025
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Josh Mays presents at SE Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference in Savanna
Josh Mays presents at SE Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference in Savanna

Triest is representing at the Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference in Savannah, GA. Stop by the Caneberry Education session in room 200/201 at 9:30-10:00AM to listen to Karen Blaedow with NC State University and our own Josh Mays present on Raspberry Annual Production Systems. It will be an overview of a new annual production system for raspberry that is in development that you won't want to miss.

1/9/2025
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New York Potato Trial Harvesting

Potato Harvest Trial Harvest digs in New York. Looking at Russets, Whites, and Yellows with multiple rates of chloropicrin against non-treated. We look at suppressing verticillium wilt, nematodes, & common scab. This is a fresh market grower so skin quality and size profiles matter.

11/6/2024
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E VA Red Potato Trial Soil Compaction Explanation

Red Potato Trial using different rates and applications methods of chloropicrin. In this video we explain the different soil compaction rates seen in different application methods.

7/25/2024
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Jalapeno Trial, Clinton NC

Our Director of Agronomy, Josh Mays, was back out in the field at the end of May checking on a jalapeno field trial in Clinton, NC. In this video he's highlighting the difference in growth and uniformity seen in this field and why it matters.

6/14/2024
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AL Cucumber Field – Fumigation Tutorial

Josh Mays was out with a crew setting up a low dose chloropicrin trial on some cucumbers in Alabama not long ago. He walked through an in-row flat fumigation application and how it works in a strip-till situation in this video.

6/10/2024
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Broccoli Field Trial in Virginia

A video from a field trial in Virginia on broccoli. Agronomist Josh Mays discusses some of the things we evaluate and analyze while we're doing field trials.

5/23/2024
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SC Watermelon Field Trial

A short video on a SC Watermelon Trial and some of the tools we use to evaluate the things we see in a field.

5/23/2024
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Agronomy in Action - Soil Fumigated PNW Onions

TriEst Ag Group had the opportunity to visit our west coast affiliate, Trident Ag Products, in the Pacific Northwest. They took our agronomist, Josh Mays, to visit some onion growers that were harvesting. He breaks down why growers soil fumigate onions and the benefits of doing so.

11/1/2023
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Agronomy in Action - Peanut Soil Fumigation Trial Part II

Triest Ag's agronomist, Josh Mays, was back out in the peanut field in Marion, SC recently doing some of the final evaluations on TriEst's soil fumigation trial. The peanuts were freshly turned and drying for harvest.

10/30/2023
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Agronomy in Action - Peanut Soil Fumigation Trial

Our agronomist, Josh Mays, was out recently in a peanut field in Marion, SC comparing the difference in uniformity of emergence and uniformity of growth in a soil fumigation trial that TriEst Ag Group is doing.

10/23/2023
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Agronomy in Action: Tobacco Soil Fumigation Trial

Our agronomist, Josh Mays, was in a tobacco field back in mid-August visiting a Granville Wilt trial. He touches on the differences in soil fumigated versus untreated. You can read about some more of our work in tobacco at www.triestag.com/ag-news/.

10/19/2023
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The Badger Common’tater: An Interview with Josh Mays of Triest Ag Group
The Badger Common’tater: An Interview with Josh Mays of Triest Ag Group

The July issue of the Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association’s The Badger Common’Tater features a wonderful, in-depth interview with our own Corporate Agronomist, Josh Mays!

7/31/2023
Podcast
A Deeper Look into Grafted Watermelon Production and Management

In our last blog we went over the obstacles that growers face in watermelon production and their potential solutions. In this video presentation we will take a deeper dive into why we recommend grafted plants and fumigation as potential solutions to obstacles in watermelon production.

10/14/2022

Triest Ag Group
TriEst Ag is a distributor and applicator of soil fumigation, irrigation, fertilizer, and equipment products with a focus on fresh fruits, vegetables, tobacco, and custom turf applications. We have developed a unique group of company brands that allows us to offer growers our support from pre-plant through harvest, season after season. As an industry leader with more than 50 years’ experience, TriEst Ag Group offers innovative options and solutions that protect crops, people, and the environment with honest, long-term relationships that make us the first call a grower makes when they need help.