The photos here arrived today from a central Iowa grower who sprayed cornstalks Oct. 17 with a pint per acre of Environoc 501 plus some microbial “starter fluid:” two gallons per acre of calcium chloride. Softer pith in the stalk has already gone dark after slightly more than a week of mild temperatures. By spring, these stalks […]

Every so often, a major national news story rings with such clarity that I’m not as hesitant to admit that I’m a “used journalist.” National Public Radio’s Dan Charles today posted “Monsanto and the Weed Scientists: Not a Love Story,” which rips off many coverups by the genetic giants pushing the remake of an old herbicide,

A front-page feature in Wall Street Journal today by writer Jacob Bunge describes how Cargill Inc. plans to use a powerful web-linking technology which would allow retail customers to trace their individual Thanksgiving turkey back to the farm that raised it. A participating Texas turkey producer says this kind of capability “opens our doors to the consumer.” Oct. 25,

Our Master Gardeners here at Renewable Farming, Jeanene Carlson and her family, raise delicious tomatoes, veggies and greens all summer. This winter, Grandpa will attempt to extend the productive life of their tomatoes by transferring and transplanting several plants in the two-story greenhouse built into the south side of our home. Oct. 23, 2017    By Jerry

Converting this fall’s cornstalk carbon to nutrients for next year’s crop becomes more profitable when you use the synergy of crimping and shattering stalks before applying a microbial residue digester. A combine header attachment, the “Devastator” by Yetter Equipment, is accumulating some promising data and farmer reviews. Oct. 20, 2017 — The Devastator has been

For three seasons, Renewable Farming LLC has invested in hundreds of random-rep trials on our research acres for a new product, Ligniton. Now, the Canadian developer of Lignition is rolling out a new website and a marketing program with global reach. Here’s how you can tap into a very promising rate of return on this new, safe, unique product which enhances photosynthetic efficiency.

New Zealand farmers have fended off repeated, intense pressures to allow GMO crops to take over their “crown jewel” in the food-export world: Clean, GMO-free crop and livestock products. Dr. Don Huber, Purdue University professor emeritus, just visited New Zealand for speaking engagements, and Auckland, NZ radio broadcaster Tim Lynch captured the key points of Huber’s message to farmers

Healthy soil and full-season, biologically sound nutrition can apparently overcome the trend toward earlier “die-down” we’ve seen in Midwest cornfields for about the past seven or eight seasons. One field with the evidence is just west of Guthrie Center, Iowa. Oct. 15, 2017 — We had earlier asked Dave Schwartz to send us updated photos

One of the most memorable facts we’ve learned about biological farming came from Dr. Robert Kremer, ARS/USDA microbiologist based at the University of Missouri: “Every time you add a crop species to your rotation, that species stimulates populations of at least 10 new microbial species in your soil.” October 15, 2017 By Jerry Carlson — That bio-stimulus