That 60 to 70+ bu. range of yields included the soybeans in these photos, where Hal and Ty Brown of Mulberry, Indiana planted into standing green cereal rye, then roller-crimped it. They harvested beans earlier this week. The field shown here yielded 65 bu. per acre of seed beans for Beck’s Hybrids. October 14, 2020 — Last spring, Hal […]

We’re seeing a few corn growers add 30 to 40 bu. onto yields with season-long nutrition and biological products including microbial blends and biostimulants. Their corn has fully mature ears testing around 18% to 20% moisture — while stalks still are alive with lots of green leaf area and fully functional xylem and phloem circulation. October

Wet spring. Dry summer and fall. Western wildfire smoke. Thousands of acres of wind-flattened, stalk-rotted corn. Now, swarms of big chopper-equipped combines are spewing fine particles into a dry atmosphere. It’s the perfect recipe for respiratory stress. On top of the Covid-19 menace. Oct. 11, 2020 By Jerry Carlson  — Last Friday Dr. Lyn Patrick, co-chair of the Environmental Health Symposium, e-mailed

Want a few uplifting, memorable minutes amid a hectic harvest? Visit these YouTube videos of university choirs and solo performers singing classic songs — in big, empty on-farm grain bins.  October 7, 2020 — The trend apparently started with some solo performances in grain bins a decade ago, celebrating the acoustics. Then in 2018, Derek Klingenberg of Klingenberg

Key points in Bob’s weekly report to clients: (1) Use early-harvest opportunities to accelerate stalk residue digestion and recapture nutrients. Biodyne’s Meltdown shows excellent results. (2) Long-term management which enhances soil biology proved this year that healthy soil holds more moisture and preserves higher yields. (3) Continual loss of fungicide effectiveness is propelling firms toward more biological

This soybean yield map offers one more clue that when dry weather stresses your crop, the specialized endophyte microbes in “BioEnsure” and “BioTango” can help your crop endure longer. September 30, 2020 — One of our innovative WakeUP clients in north central Iowa foliar-sprayed the Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies organisms on soybeans in early August. The yield

Here’s the background on this soybean pod count comparison: Mike Williams farms and serves as an agronomist for Gold Eagle Co-op in central Iowa. A customer had a field of his soybeans hailed out this spring, and the farmer replanted June 8.  September 18, 2020 — Mike says that when the replanted beans reached about the

On Sept. 4 we anticipated a nutrient-recycling opportunity following an early harvest in drought-hit areas of the central-western Corn Belt. That’s happening now. Here’s the strategy we encourage to get an early start on cover crops and residue recycling. September 15, 2020 — Yesterday, agronomist Mike Williams sent us the field photo below, taken in Pocahontas County as

In the closing weeks of summer, wildfires across the West scorched a total land area almost the size of New Jersey. In Oregon alone, over 400,000 people are on evacuation alert. California’s Governor Newsom blames global warming. September 12, 2020  Commentary by Jerry Carlson — While standing on a charred hillside in his home state, Governor Newsom told TV newspersons: “The debate is