Bio-Mass Renewable Technologies (BRT) of Ladora, southeast Iowa, is offering a 60% biochar soil amendment product for $25 per ton, locally. It has other components, such as nitrogen, phosphate, sulfur and trace elements. And it’s about 30% by weight of diatomaceous earth, which adds mineral and micronutrients such as zinc. Not only that, but there’s a sweetener […]

Biodyne USA of Fort Wayne, IN just published its detailed array of field trials measuring the benefits of its biologicals such as Environoc 401 and Meltdown, which we market here at Renewable Farming. Biodyne is one of the few “bio” firms investing substantial sums each year to evaluate and publish on-farm benefits of residue digesters,

On Jan. 22, Pursanova Ltd. founder and owner Vatché Keuftedjian told about 120 farmers how his water energizing systems improve family health and multiply effectiveness of crop protection products. Here’s a summary of how Pursanova technology restores water’s natural, healthy, energy-giving qualities. January 29, 2020   By Jerry Carlson — Major industries and more than 4,800 farms around the world (including our Renewable

Below is an edited excerpt from crop consultant Bob Streit’s weekly summary to his clients and friends, emphasizing two of the presentations you’ll see if you attend the Central Iowa Agronomics pre-season conference scheduled Jan. 22 near Webster City (see next news item for details on that). As we’ve emphasized in our own Renewable Farming

Central Iowa Agronomics has a “great lineup of speakers for our third annual pre-season meeting,” says Iowa crop consultant Bob Streit. You can visit with other farmers in a new meeting facility deserving of five-star class:  It’s the Briggs Wood Conference Center just off Interstate 20, south of Webster City, Iowa. (See photo below.) Bob

The swarm of farm editors writing about David Hula’s 616.195-bu. corn last season all point to one critical ingredient for exceptional yield: Intensive, all-season management which knits together dozens of synergistic yield-builders. Successful Farming’s Bill Spiegel captures that essence in a couple of Dave Hula’s quotes: “It takes attention to detail, forethought and resolve. It takes a

Midwest soils that proved most resilient through 2019’s floods and dry spells were those with ideal structure and humus to quickly absorb torrential rains, then meter that moisture back to roots through dry weeks.  December 14, 2019 — At this week’s ACRES conference, Edwin Blosser of Midwest Bio-Systems showed farmers how to build such soils on