Last week we learned that one of our friends, Paul Syltie, was arranging a Midwest tour of Ukrainian farm managers interested in learning more about biologically sound technology for soybeans — so we offered to help. When the group of three managers flew out from Chicago to visit Iowa last Monday, we took them to
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A detailed feature by Elizabeth Grossman on the website civileats.com offers the best perspective we’ve seen on the “study vs. study” controversy over glyphosate residues in mothers’ breast milk. You’ve probably seen the report last week from Washington State University assistant professor Michelle McGuire stating that no detectable glyphosate was found in 41 samples of women’s
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The World Health Organization’s Agency for Research on Cancer has released its full report in which it classified glyphosate and its weedkiller formulation as a probable human carcinogen. You can download the entire report at this link as a PDF file. It is 92 pages long and loaded with technical data. So for starters we’d recommend
Bob Streit 515-709-0143 There are a few important things that must be addressed to produce the most bushels possible, where a good portion of the profits might be contained. It has been a somewhat eventful summer. One event that many poultry farmers will never forget was that they got blasted by a disease that
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A federal legislative effort to block retail labeling of GMO foods is heading for a vote in the U.S. House of Representative this week, probably Thursday. It would pre-empt any state’s right to require such labeling — as Vermont has already done, and which several state referendums have attempted to require. A Wall Street Journal
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John Kempf of the firm Advancing Eco Agriculture presented several reports on experience with crop sap testing at an online webinar July 14. After two full seasons of experience with sap testing, and fieldwork with it so far this year, the firm’s fertility recommendations to farmers have changed drastically. And their farmer clients are clearing more profit from
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By Bob Streit, Crop Consultant, Boone, IA 515-709-0143 Specific observations as of July 16: Now is when we are saving or adding yield. There are still lots of decisions and actions to make on the 2015 crop. Hopefully the weather will cooperate. Here’s an update around Iowa. 1. So far only about
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Kevin Korus, Coordinator of the Plant and Pest diagnostic Clinic at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln), told us today that Goss’ wilt “attacked corn early in Nebraska” this season. Stormy weather and moderate temperatures (below 90 degrees) create optimal growing conditions for the bacteria and encourage disease, he says. “The time of infection appears to
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When rained-out farmers collect at the local coffee shop to gripe about incessant rain this summer, much of the blame falls on the ebbing and flowing El Niño. Today, even Rush Limbaugh was intoning about the biggest El Niño in a half-century and its possible impacts. Meteorologists fuel that commentary. Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist for AccuWeather.com,
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A broad-based scientific study released today at a Washington, DC press conference finds that genetic engineering of soybeans leads to accumulation of formaldehyde — a known carcinogen with zero tolerance in foods — and depletes glutathione, a vital anti-oxidant. The research report was published today in the journal Agricultural Sciences. Researcher Dr. V. A. Shiva
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