Here’s a harvest scenario which could occur on your farm surprisingly soon: Your yield monitor flashes upwards of 300 bu. per acre; test weights stay above 60 pounds: moisture a comfortable 18%. Separately, a special “lab” cubicle in your combine pulls a corn sample from the hopper every five acres, grinds it and quickly makes a detailed […]

This Thanksgiving winds down a season of bad weather, low prices and poor yields which Farm Journal columnist John Phipps describes as nearly burying thankfulness beneath losses, grief and despair. Hopefully, John cites the science of “cognitive behavior therapy” as helpful: “Not feeling thankful this holiday? Then just fake it. That’s right. Act like you

An in-furrow blend of Vitazyme, WakeUP Spring and a liquid sugar with fulvic acid called Syntose FA gave farmer/agronomist Mike Williams an extra 10 bu. of corn per acre this fall for a product cost of $6.50 per acre. It’s another test of ways to blend biologicals and biostimulants for maximum yield and constrained cost.

Dean Craine, manager of AgriEnergy Resources in Princeton, IL, says “I wouldn’t be afraid of spraying Residuce on standing cornstalks if a grower has a window of opportunity before combining.”  Oct. 18, 2019 — This fall could bring such an opportunity for getting stalk digestion started early. Soybeans have dropped leaves rapidly since a couple

For roughly a decade, farmers around the world have saved millions of dollars in fertilizer and chemical costs by improving the quality of their spray water with reverse osmosis and energizing systems made by Pursanova Ltd. Inc. This month, Pursanova founder and president Vatché Keuftedjian was named as the winner in the top technology award offered by the International

Here in our little “garden spot” of Iowa, it has been many years since we’ve seen so many fields of corn maturing with white-shucked ears hanging down from mostly green stalks. Those sugar-laden stalks are ideal feedstock for a spray with residue-digesting organisms right behind the combine.  October 3, 2019 — In the past several seasons, most

Four years ago, our first farmer meeting involving Biodyne biological products demonstrated that this company had a product line that’s very effective. About 20 farmers attended in Webster City, IA. This season, registration for their annual “what-we-learned” meeting is 90 farmers and growing. Sept. 5, 2019 In fact it’s slightly past deadline for meeting signup, the

September came in like a lamb. How will it go out? A year ago the start of September was marked by very heavy rain that moved in on a Saturday where both the ISU and UNL football games were rained out. The heavy rains lasted thru early October and produced flooded conditions that lasted thru