Bob Streit’s yield summary of Dave Schwartz corn program for 2016, with a full season foliar nutrition program and Bio Empruv on some fields as a treatment for the “new” Goss’s wilt entity: Low river bottom fields, surrounded by trees and having a terrible disease history. Best yield ever on whole farm:
Update on Dave Schwartz 2016 corn yields with full-season foliars Read More »
Hearings by the Environmental Protection Agency this week will focus on the scientific question of Roundup’s links, or lack of links, to cancer in humans. Investigative writer Carey Gillam has written a detailed analysis of the forces which converge in those hearings. Dec. 12, 2016 — The EPA has received more than 250,000 comments filed by
EPA already seen leaning toward a “pass” on controversy over Roundup’s cancer risk Read More »
Argentina’s socialist policies for the past decade are fading out with new national leadership — and optimism is again spreading in one of the world’s naturally richest agricultural regions. The Wall Street Journal has the report at this link, so we won’t be redundant about the facts. The point is: Getting rid of stifling export
Argentina’s farmers reviving hopes as export tariffs, regulations are relieved Read More »
Darrell Smith, Farm Journal’s Conservation and Machinery Editor, published on AgWeb Dec. 9 an analysis of fall-applied anhydrous ammonia which is worth close study. It focuses on one more reason we’ve avoided anhydrous on our own farm over the years. Dec.10, 2016 By Jerry Carlson — The article focuses on the Spring 2016 runoff nitrate
Next spring, how much of that fall-applied nitrogen will still be in your soil? Read More »
Last week was important for anyone who wanted to gather as much ag knowledge as possible. There was an ag consultants’ late-fall tech seminar in Ames, the big ISU Extension-sponsored ICM Conference was held on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 on the campus, and the national ACRES U.S.A. EcoAg Conference was held in Omaha. Dec. 9,
Updates from a crop consultant on control of resistant weeds for the 2017 season Read More »
For years you’ve read in the farm media, university releases and regulatory agencies that genetically modified foods are completely safe and healthy. But here’s a challenge: I dare you to carefully and thoughtfully read Steven Druker’s 511-page book, Altered Genes, Twisted Truth. Dec. 9, 2016 By Jerry Carlson — You will find the facts revealed by
Healthy crops, healthy food: Who can your family really trust? Read More »
Iowa governor Terry Branstad was in effect “given the nod by China” today as president-elect Trump’s choice as ambassador to China. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters “We welcome him to play a greater role in advancing the development of China-U.S. relations.” Dec. 7, 2016 — Wednesday’s comment by Lu Kang followed a report late
Here’s a major compelling reason that about 1,500 farmers attend the annual ACRES USA conference each year, and carry home ideas to use: They’re encouraged by the upbeat attitudes among other farmers, seminar presenters and the product providers they meet. Dec. 6, 2016 By Jerry Carlson — Most of the growers visiting in the hallways of the Omaha
Farmers’ enthusiasm and confidence continues strong at ACRES USA conference Read More »
Farmers producing fresh, flavorful foods are finding a new niche market: Supplying fruit, vegetables and other tasty ingredients to companies which deliver “kit” meals to busy people who want to escape the junk-food syndrome. Startup firms have made such inroads into the marketplace, with about $200 million of investment capital last year, that the major
Food marketing opportunity: Sell quality fruit, veggies, or meat to a meal-kit provider Read More »
Dec. 5, 2016 — News release from the Convention on Biological Diversity: International conservation and environmental leaders are calling on governments at the 2016 UN Convention on Biodiversity to establish a moratorium on the controversial genetic extinction technology called gene drives. Gene drives, developed through new gene-editing techniques, are designed to force a particular genetically engineered trait
160 Global Groups Call for Moratorium on New Genetic Extinction Technology Read More »