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 download a PDF copy at this link. January 18, 2021   By Jerry Carlson — The Guide is compliments of GreenCover Seed in Bladen, Nebraska. Keith […]

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 version of this contact burndown is intended for landscape, garden and municipal markets. A formulation for large acreages, such as terminating cover crops, remains under development. 

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, corn futures bumped limit-up 25 cents. Soybeans climbed 35 to 50 cents; winter wheat 25 to 30 cents. January 12, 2021 — Already in this grain rally, longtime WakeUP

“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 China Morning Post, a newspaper circulated widely in China.  January 10, 2021 — Yanzhong hits Chinese authorities hard: “The task of improving what goes on

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 recognize. That “Regenerative Ag” label might have been “Renewable Farming” except that my wife Jill came up with that label in the late 1980s,

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 from your field. January 5, 2021 — Farmers, livestock feeders, crop consultants, seed breeders and many other ag users could find the $4,300 device and related software

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 Services? What other medical mandates are endangering your family because of political pressures, such as lockdowns and masks? December 29, 2020  By Jerry Carlson — At

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 life since the venture’s first seminar — held in a machine shed on the farm at Princeton, IL in 1987. December 23, 2020. By Jerry Carlson —

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 yield contest winners, here’s the link.  You can see details about this year’s contest winners described by Emily Unglesbee on DTN at this link. But we want to

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 and Illinois: An average yield gain of 8.31 bushels. Six soybean field tests from Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Indiana and Ohio averaged a gain