U.S Right to Know writer and analyst Carey Gillam’s July 6 update on the Bayer class-action lawsuit raises doubts whether Bayer’s proposed settlement of “up to $9.5 billion” will gain court approval. Carey Gillam July 7, 2020 — Gillam has covered the glyphosate controversy for many years for several news services. She’s assembled more background research […]

We’re celebrating America’s Independence Day with a little flower show for you! Here are five composite images of flowers on our Renewable Farming family’s home base near Cedar Falls, Iowa. And at the end of the flower show, there’s a very special Rain Lily flower with a story shared by one of our longtime farming clients. July 3,

We previously reported here on Adams County, Wis. grower Irvin Osterloh’s technique of interplanting continuous soybeans into early-spring planted oats. July 2, 2020 — Today, Irv sent us a photo update on a neighbor’s adaptation of using rows of oats to offer wind protection and microbial diversity for carrots grown in that area’s sandy soils. He

The Organic Consumers Association recently published a detailed report with convincing evidence that the SARS-cov-2 virus causing the current pandemic was genetically engineered in a laboratory. Here’s the link to that report, written by André Leu. June 29, 2020   By Jerry Carlson — The take-home for farmers is this: The newly developed capabilities of editing viral

We’ve dug countless corn roots over the years, but this pair of stalks has the richest array of branching, root hairs and actinomycetes we’ve seen at the 6-leaf stage.  June 27, 2020 — Look closely at how the soil clings to the root hairs. That signals a massive network of beneficial mycorrhizal fungi which multiplies the

Today’s explosive interest in home gardening reveals an opportunity to enhance your yields of vegetables, greens and fruit: Foliar feed with nutrients, biologicals and WakeUP. Fast-growing produce shows you how WakeUP dramatically accelerates foliar nutrient absorption and metabolism. June 25, 2020 By Jerry Carlson — Three years ago, our grandson Blake took over crop management of our 20-acre

In rural America, a high school prom is no time for social distancing. So when Rossville High School couldn’t accommodate the 2020 spring prom because of Indiana’s lockdown rules, graduate Jayden Brown found an alternative venue: An upscale machine shed on  Windy Lane Farms near Muberriy, Indiana, operated by his dad Ty and grandfather Hal Brown. Here’s

Our Renewable Farming website is here to encourage you with ways to enhance your farm, ranch and family life. I’m even convinced some beneficial changes will emerge from the current pandemic, recession, protests, riots and dismal grain prices. After all, this is America! June 9, 2020  By Jerry Carlson – Warning: Reader discretion advised. I’m an 84-year-old journalist with a

The American flag has long been a favorite theme in our photos displaying American agriculture and its people. Here are several of our countryside photos linked with the star-spangled banner. June 14, 2020, Flag Day By Jerry Carlson — I shot several of these flag images as covers for the newsletter Seasons, which I produced many years for the

Today, Irvin Osterloh sent us two photos of his 2020 soybean fields, which are interplanted between twin rows of oats as a nurse crop for weed suppression. We told the background story in a May 5, 2020 report at this link, and asked Irv to send along a couple of images of the 2020 crop