Since 2008, we’ve been field-testing WakeUP’s effectiveness at translocating foliar-applied nutrients into crops. In general, we’ve found that WakeUP Summer adds a yield “bonus” to a micronutrient blend or NPK package.  Example: Suppose a trace pack or other foliar nutrient formulation adds 5 bu. more yield. Including WakeUP Summer as a surfactant/penetrant/mobilizer typically stimulates another 4

As of Sept. 10, 2016, our soybean research strips in Black Hawk County, northeast Iowa, are among the few bean fields which haven’t yellowed and dropped at least some leaves in broad, irregular swatches. Below is one of our own research patches. This is a non-GMO eMerge Genetics E3192 bean, planted in mid-May.  As of Sept. 10,

We’ve applied a ton per acre of calcium sulfate each fall for the past three seasons — and we’ve seen soils mellow out and absorb rain more readily. This week, we saw one new random-rep corn yield trial indicating that there’s a 10-bu. potential corn yield increase following an application of gypsum from stack scrubbers.

Usually, foliar-feeding the garden which Jill and I raise is a “last priority.”  If something’s left over in the Hagie sprayer from a field trial I’m doing, I swing out a boom and spray the garden crops. That always generated a lot more butternut squash and other produce than we could eat.  This season, Erik and Jeanene’s

Several of our WakeUP clients are making comments like this: “With $2.65 corn, I’ll simply have to cut back or eliminate fertilizer this fall. Maybe cut spring nitrogen rates too.” Here are several ideas our “biological” farmers are using for reducing crop production costs and putting cash into fertility choices which offer highest odds of a positive

Farmers and research agronomists keep discovering profitable new uses for our two formulations, WakeUP Spring and WakeUP Summer.  Ironically, one proven use is to apply WakeUP Spring in the fall. Sprayed on winter wheat, WakeUP Spring mobilizes more sugars and other chlorophyll-built nutrients into the roots.  The roots exude up to half of those nutrients into