A June 8 Wall Street Journal feature by Jo McGinty reports that researchers documented a 76% drop during 1989-2016 in the number of flying insects living in 63 German nature preserves. June 9, 2018 — Entomologists around the world are aware that insect numbers, and the range of species, has been declining for decades. But […]

Non-chemical weed control takes a lot more management than back in the “see ’em, spray ’em” days before resistant weeds. But organic growers are showing it’s possible to raise good soybean yields, herbicide-free. Research results indicate that a few weed escapes don’t have as much impact on yield as they probably do on the grower’s pride in a

The fastest-growing food label amendment in America is the “Non-GMO Verified” sticker. In Germany, growth of a similar non-GMO verified seal is soaring by more than 25% annually — and accelerating. June 7, 2018 — A headline today on the international Feed Navigator website: “Germany expects to see record Non-GMO food sales.” If you follow this link and read

Jill Carlson is a book author, mother of three married children and grandmother of seven children. Here she reviews the eye-opening new book: What’s Making Our Children Sick? by Michelle Perro, MD and research scientist Dr. Vincanne Adams. What would you do for these kids?  Mike… at age ten became angry and rebellious. His family of six was close-knit: boy

French artist Jean-François Millet painted “The Man With a Hoe” in 1862. The oppression of that image inspired American poet Edwin Markam to create in 1889 a poem with the same name. June 4, 2018 — First we’ll take a look back in time. Then, forward to a more hopeful future. Here are just four of

The photo below just arrived from Vatché Kuftedjian, manufacturer of the Pursanova systems for structuring/energizing water. One of his farmer clients in southeastern Minnesota, Chris Sauer, has been watching a corn experiment emerge and grow this spring, and today sent Vatché a report. We followed up with Chris. June 4, 2018 — The two cornstalks

Ten years ago, Renewable Farming demonstrated to a neighbor how foliar feeding corn with slow-release nitrogen, mobilized with WakeUP, could add yield to an already excellent crop. That was our first “demo” of foliar feeding. Since then we’ve done thousands of foliar nutrition trials with a wide array of NPK, traces, biologicals and biostimulants. That accumulated data offered our

Crop scouting today has more “leverage” on getting the word out than before the era of sharing high-resolution cell phone photos via text messages and the internet. A grower can take a field photo and within minutes, the evidence of effects on crop are available to friends around the world. May 30, 2018 by Jerry Carlson

Here’s an early glimpse of how soybean roots looked two weeks after planting with, and without, Biodyne USA’s “Environoc 401” and WakeUP Spring applied in-furrow. Both sets of soybeans were dug from their side-by-side position in a 30-inch row, with a single spadeful of dirt. May 29, 2018 — This is just the first glimpse