January 2017

January 14, 2017 –Excerpts from consultant Bob Streit’s weekly crop update:  I have previously mentioned that in working with a friend and ag professional on his farm just west of Guthrie Center, and other individuals across the state, we were seeking high corn yields in 2016. When we combined different products on a 31-45 CSR

Wall Street Journal writer Jesse Newman captures the mood of today’s creative, optimistic farmers who are growing products for higher-value markets. They’re using their management and marketing skills, both of which are highly valuable and not easily found on the farm. January 9, 2017 — You can see the original article at this link. What

“The weedkiller Roundup causes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease at very low doses permitted by regulators worldwide, a new peer-reviewed study shows. The study is the first ever to show a causative link between consumption of Roundup at a real-world environmentally relevant dose and a serious disease.” Jan. 9, 2016 — That’s the lead in a GMWatch news

  After stalk N testing was performed this fall there were growers who found out their stalks’ N levels were in the high to very high range — but their yields didn’t seem to correlate to those findings. In other words they sometimes found that sidedressing N did not produce any yield increase. Jan. 3,

At Renewable Farming we have a front-row, real-time view of many discussions (and debates) among leading scientists and other experts worldwide. Here’s an example of such a person-to-person research network, sharing experience on honeybee “colony collapse disorder,” which threatens to devastate pollinating bees globally. Jan. 4, 2017 By Jerry Carlson — The connecting link is often a

The nutrition and health benefits of non-GMO soybean meal are growing so clear that poultry and livestock feeders are bidding for it. Especially, for meal produced by extrusion, rather than hexane solvent extraction. Financial plans and facilities for just such a production plant is underway at Marengo in southeast Iowa. The building, 27 acres and rail