Renewable Farming

Jerry Carlson

How late-foliar microbes helped corn endure drought stress

This is the third season we’ve seen profitable corn yield results with foliar-applied BioEnsure and BioTango, live microbial products from Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies in Seattle, Washington. BioEnsure is an endophyte fungus; BioTango a bacteria. The photo above comes from one of our WakeUP clients in north central Iowa, who asks to remain anonymous. On June

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The Big Soil Health Event here in Cedar Falls, IA Dec. 5-6

Soil Regen expects up to 800 farmers and other soil-health advocates at their 2022 “Big Soil Event” right here in Cedar Falls, home of our family firm, Renewable Farming LLC. We manufacture WakeUP, a plant-based surfactant/penetrant which we’ve shown since 2008 as a highly effective way to amplify foliar and in-furrow crop nutrition. Here are

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Yes, non-GMO corn and soybeans can outyield costly biotech “traits”

July 24, 2022 By Jerry Carlson For about seven years, I’ve seen Dave Olson’s non-GMO corn and soybean yields average higher and more uniformly than those of neighbors who raise GMO crops. He has used WakeUP since 2016, but that’s just one element in his enthusiastic pursuit of profitable crops. Dave farms near Fort Dodge

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Wheat and oats desiccated with glyphosate could become unsaleable for food use

Malting barley was the first small grain rejected because of glyphosate residues. Growers were spraying glyphosate as barley reached maturity, for uniform drying and burning down green weeds. However, one Roundup patent covers its use as an antimicrobial. February 22, 2022 By Jerry Carlson Beer brewers found that glyphosate residues in glyphosate-dessicated barley impairs fermentation. As our friend Howard Vlieger puts

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