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...

Healthy, 300-bu. plus corn on rolling hillsides with a corn suitability rating in the mid-50s? See the photos below taken at the Dave Schwartz farm a few miles west of...

The rivers of rain which lashed much of the upper Midwest in September and early October spawned an array of stalk rot fungi and bacteria which are now threatening substantial corn yield losses. Here's...

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...

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...

Rivers of rainstorms drowned out my second and final foliar spray application in a simple experiment on sweetcorn in late August. But with only one foliar application of Mainstay Si, the data showed a "signal"...

Five tons of stalk and cob residue recaptured biologically after a 250-bu. corn harvest contain roughly 112 lbs. of N, 40 lbs. of P2O5 and 275 pounds of K2O. Growers who've learned how to unleash biological...

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...

One of America's venerable crop consultants, Dr. Carey Reams, often cited this maxim: "If you could double the thickness of a crop leaf, that leaf would increase its sugar production four times....

That Verdesian field day at Dave Schwartz' farm yesterday presented an eye-opening array of promising new biologically-based crop technology. Your challenge now: Choosing the most profitable, synergistic blend of ideas! August 21, 2018 —...

This morning, Biodyne USA President Gil Farley sent us the photo below of a yield estimate from a northern Indiana side-by-side corn trial. Their Environoc 401 bacterial inoculant placed in-furrow...