Iowa crop consultant Bob Streit  has been cruising fields all spring, looking at real conditions. His report (posted below) was released last weekend — well ahead of USDA’s estimate at noon EST today, which rojected a 13.9 billion bu. corn crop based on 169.5 bu. per acre. Bob had said this spring’s highly variable and stressful crop conditions “set […]

Skeptics argue that there’s no nutritional difference between organic and non-organic food. They may show you a chemical analysis which they believe backs their claim. But measuring amounts of minerals doesn’t reveal the dramatic beauty and order of minerals in organic food, compared with the distorted mineral structure of non-organic food. August 12, 2019    By Jerry Carlson — A. W. Danzer’s

During 1650 to 1700, global food production was devastated during the “Maunder Minimum” of historically low sunspot activity. Today the devotees of man-made climate change still cling to their computer models which presume rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are forcing up world temperatures to the point of disaster.  July 22, 2019 — For more than

One of our Indiana clients texted late yesterday: “This season it’s easy to tell who planted dicamba beans. Those are the only ones not all puckered up. It’s a seed monopoly — the only kind to plant if you don’t want clobbered beans.” July 18, 2019 — Our Indiana client followed up by detailing that “one reason

William C. Fordham, founder of C&S Grain Market Consulting, unexpectedly departed for Heaven last evening. That leaves behind his wife Marilyn, his grateful clients and hundreds of farmer friends. He also leaves unstaffed one of the most detailed computer databases of market-moving historic corn and soybean data we’ve ever seen. For 21 years, he provided clients exquisitely detailed analyses, using years of previous

Amie Bandy just published an analysis of this season’s lagging Growing Degree Units (GDU), projecting how the corn crop will likely develop through this growing season. The action point we see in her study: Careful nutritional stimulus will help keep your corn growing actively through every day until a hard freeze. We encourage you to visit the

Here’s the promised followup to our May 20 report from Jeff Adams near Chebanse, Illinois. In that preview, Jeff Adams alerted us that emerging corn looked greener “to the row” where he applied in-furrow microbes in Environoc 401 and biostimulants in Vitazyme — plus WakeUP Spring to mobilize these yield boosters into new roots. June 15, 2019 —

Freshly emerged corn on the left side of the nearby photo came from a test row which had no nutrient or biological supports applied with the planter. The corn on the right, planted nearby, received the “full program” of beneficial biological products and 2×2 starter nutrients. The list below is recommended by Brad Forkner, crop and