One of the most diligent searchers for helpful innovations in crop production is consultant Bob Streit, who literally roams the globe for profitable answers. In one Bob's weekly reports summarized below, he...

Here's another benefit from growing a wide array of cover crops in your no-till or minimum tillage system: That deep-rooted network reaching down from multiple cover species builds a firmer soil profile. When your combine and...

Consulting agronomist Bob Streit describes the fungal invasion of many Midwest soybean fields, and suggests some remedial answers for healthier crops in future seasons. Oct. 31, 2018   By Bob Streit...

Darker shades of color in corn and soybean fields offer evidence that persistent rains which delayed harvest have also multiplied an array of molds. And for the first time, a farmer...

We've always encouraged corn growers to look inside cornstalks in spring, from about the four-leaf stage on, to detect early signals of brown, rotting gunk in the xylem tubes near...

Many corn growers will probably answer, "nitrogen." That's because we've been conditioned by nearly a century of mineral fertilizer research and marketing to think nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. But the correct...

Caius Rommens, a genetic engineer who first worked at Monsanto and then for J.R. Simplot, published an editorial today on the Independent Science News website saying that he "renounces" his...

Australian researcher John McLean conducted an exhaustive audit on the key long-term climate data which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses for its "consensus" on man-made global warming. He...

Several new stalk residue digester products are emerging in the marketplace. Your decision may well be not deciding whether to speed residue breakdown, but "which one is best?"  Farmers' demand is demonstrating their effectiveness. Although...

Advertising-supported farm magazines have long taken a... well, a tactful approach to reporting the damage potential of ag chemicals. But this week, Prairie Farmer courageously focused directly on the huge challenge dicamba herbicides...

Here's a series of seven photos which farmer Howard Vlieger shot at his farm, and e-mailed us Sept. 17. They show the dramatic difference in soil absorption between his biologically managed and cover-cropped...

First, crunch those tough, tire-jabbing cornstalks. Second, spray on a residue-digesting blend of lignin-loving microbes that will chew through cellulose and lignin. This one-two punch converts more raw carbon from...

Here's an early-September fall field report by Boone, Iowa crop consultant Bob Streit. There were many out of state and out of country visitors at the recent Farm Progress show. A...

"This part of our garden was solid Canadian thistle this spring," Howard Vlieger said in a message which accompanied the photo at the bottom of this report. Howard's home and...