This winter offers your opportunity to create a strategy for full-season corn crop health in 2017. That calls for countering the trend we’ve seen the past several years: Corn dying a few days earlier each season. Dec.26, 2016 — Keeping corn leaves green until frost, especially the leaves above the ear, is a major source
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Dec. 24, 2016 By Jerry Carlson — 25 years ago, I and my friend Bob Fischer were in Moscow, reporting to American farmers on Russia’s farmland “reform.” It was growing from Glasnost, Russia’s new freedoms. The night of Dec. 24, I watched an obviously anxious Russian TV newsman announce the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Dec. 24 weekend essay: A world on the eve of a rebirth of freedom? Read More »
A rising sense of urgency among Chinese anti-GMO activists led one well-known Chinese mother, Xiu-lin Gu of Bejing, to send an open letter to an American mother: Ivanka Trump, president-elect Trump’s daughter. Her letter signals rising citizen activism among Chinese citizens, millions of whom are using social media to share information. In the nearby photo, Xiu-lin is
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Georgia farmer Randy Dowdy told press conference watchers yesterday that contest-winning yields start with managing corn germination and emergence so every seedling spikes out of the soil at the same time. Dec. 20, 2016 — Randy’s 521.4-bu. yield topped the 2016 National Corn Growers Association Corn Yield Contest for the strip-till irrigated division. Delta Farm Press has
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The provincial legislature of China’s Heilongjiang province in northeast China announced Friday, Dec. 16, a ban on growing any genetically modified crops. It also bans processing, sale and imports of edible farm products containing GMO ingredients. Food for human consumption currently in inventory must be sold in a special area of retail outlets, clearly marked.
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As I have stated before, on corn following soybeans, I would sooner seek high yields and better profitability by choosing a lower or non-traited hybrid and use half of the savings on in-season fertilizer, micronutrients, foliar fertilizer or products to keep the plants as green as long as possible. Dec. 17 By Bob Streit —
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Metering out corn fertility and biostimulants is a way to shave costs in 2017 — while raising your odds of improving yields. In-furrow fertility tests on our research farm show that early corn roots respond positively to: low-salt phosphorus, certain biological inoculants such as mycorrhizae, humates, amino acids and proteins in whole-fish emulsions, and an array
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Carey Gillam’s Dec. 16 on-scene report of this week’s EPA glyphosate hearings exposes how the federal “regulatory” chiefs consider their job as primarily biotech allies, not protectors of environmental and human health. Gillam’s analysis, published on The Huffington Post site, is one more lively confirmation of her self-description as an “investigative reporter.” Dec. 16, 2016 — For example, Gillam reveals that
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Sue Martin, founder and owner of Ag and Investment Services Inc., presented a mildly hopeful outlook for ag commodities at the Dec. 13 Spraytec “knowledge exchange” seminar in Ames. Rather than detailing her points, we’ll simply share notes on her analysis, with a little context around them. The tone of her talk could be summed up
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“It will be in cultural things we do. Multiple things we do for weed control.” That comment came today from Dr. Jason Norsworthy, chair of Weed Science at the University of Arkansas. He was lead speaker at the first “Knowledge Exchange” seminar hosted by Spraytec, a Brazilian firm introducing a new line of crop nutrient
“I’m not convinced the solution to weed resistance will come in a jug.” Read More »