“Over the last 20 years, we’ve never seen a drought situation looking like this through February. There’s extensive drought in the Northern Plains. There’s exceptional drought in the four-corner states....
One vital climate fact hammered into memory from my interview with climatologist Dr. Reid Bryson decades ago: Expansion of the westerly winds over the Northern Hemisphere relates directly to a...
This season, Renewable Farming offers farmers one of the most intriguing biological innovations we've seen in years. They're beneficial bacteria and fungi called endophytes. These microbes live inside your crops, helping them withstand...
The Israel Institute of Technology and Aleph Farms of Rehavot, Israel just announced development of ribeye steak grown from living cells in a laboratory. Meat with the texture, appearance and taste...
My favorite weather website is Weather Underground. Its 10-day forecast displays a full-page linear chart predicting temperature, precipitation, wind speeds and other details you can see at a single glance.
February 3, 2021...
Renewable Farming's biological principles are now "mainstream ag technology." That was the theme of the "new" AgriEnergy Solutions LLC seminar which I attended Thursday, Jan. 28.
January 30, 2021 By Jerry Carlson ...
The "Soil Health Resource Guide" gives you 76 colorful, practical pages on enhancing soil life — emphasizing cover crops to overcome soil problems like compaction, iron chlorosis and salinity. You can...
Our longtime friend Howard Vlieger of Maurice, IA this week announced a new website for the soil-friendly Weed Terminator 20 which he has been instrumental in developing for several years.
January 15, 2021 — The market-ready...
Many corn and soybean growers will be recalculating their 2021 crop input budgets after today's Annual Crop Production Summary. USDA cut 2020 corn yields by a surprising 3.8 bu. per acre. By early afternoon,...
"In China, food safety is threatened by an increasingly opaque political system." That's a daring headline for any Chinese writer to publish. But Yanzhong Huang published this criticism today in the South...
An AgWeb e-mail service called the Scoop headlined yesterday: "Regenerative Ag: The No. 1 Food Trend of 2020."
January 7, 2021 By Jerry Carlson That confirmation has taken 30-plus years for the mainstream ag media to...
The new battery-powered instrument brand-named GrainSense is gaining use globally for instant analysis of any grain's protein, moisture, carbohydrates and oil. The device interacts with your smartphone via Bluetooth, and transmits to a cloud-based database...
The U.S. government's updated dietary guidelines reject a scientific panel's urging to cut sugar and alcoholic intake. How much pressure did corporate food processors apply on USDA and Health and Human...
Biological farming will get another boost Jan. 14 and 28, with AgriEnergy seminars at Ft. Wayne, IN and Cedar Falls, IA. Manager Dean Craine will describe a "new chapter" in AgriEnergy's...
This year's National Corn Yield Contest winner is Don Stall of Charlotte, MI, with 476.91 bu. per acre in the conventional irrigated corn category. For a list of all 2020 corn...
Spraytec, a Brazilian fertility firm with years of experience, tested a new foliar called Fulltec Impulse across the Midwest this season. Results from six corn trials in Iowa, South Dakota...
In the next few weeks, we'll begin extracting highlights of a massive database called "Practical Farm Research" generated by Beck's Hybrids. This huge annual research project started in 2016. The 2020 report is...
Ivermectin has proven safe as an anti-parasitic drug for people and animals, used worldwide for many years. Until recently you could buy it at Tractor Supply and other farm stores in...
Dan Basse, president of AgResource Company, said today on AgWeb that the recent sudden shift in the corn market is unrivaled. "Four-dollar corn is the new reality for 2020. While the March...
Thanksgiving is meant to commemorate the first European settlers' surviving the harsh winters in this brave new world, with help from a number of local inhabitants. Like them, we have...
