The “classic” original benefit of WakeUP Spring on corn or soybeans is foliar spraying at 5 ounces per acre to build more massive, deep-reaching roots. WakeUP Spring moves quickly through the leaf into crop metabolism and amplifies the flow of sugars and other nutrients from leaves through the phoem tubes into roots and other new
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By Bob Streit CPCS, CCA Boone, IA Published April 25, 2016 As the 2016 corn planting and growing season arrive, more growers are remembering the early death of their corn crop last fall and in previous seasons. They recognize they have seen it, they know their yields did not meet expectations, and they often saw
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Corn growers may be easing back on dry P and K fertilizer applications for 2016 to cut costs per acre this spring — but they’re looking for ways to increase yield response with in-furrow, side-dress and foliar applications of liquid nitrogen and NPK blends. WakeUP is the perfect partner to achieve that — cost-effectively. Since 2008, our
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April is here and there were few surprises with its arrival. So far the weather in March was warmer than the low 50s during the day and night time temps still dropping below freezing. Most mornings last week there was ice on the water in most buckets and in the waterholes. Though that is not
Crop consultant Bob Streit: Planning for “longer survival” for corn in 2016 Read More »
Crop farmers and livestock producers across the European Union are growing intensively concerned about the near-universal realization that glyphosate residues are permeating most feed, manure — and the food chain. One Danish pork producer has studied the origins and consequences of glyphosate in his sow herd for two years. Higher glyphosate levels in feed have
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Blake Carlson, a high school senior who intends to study biologically focused agriculture in college, wrote an overview of today’s mainstream farming which exposes its potential inability to satisfy a consumer marketplace that’s rapidly changing. Most farmers are unaware of new, insistent demands for more highly nutritious, pesticide-free and GMO-free food. Blake is the third generation here
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Its only mid-March and already almost all the snowbanks are melted down even in way NW Iowa. The frost is also coming in in most places, and in many cases we are wondering if there ever was much deep frost, being it stayed warm so late last fall. The blackbirds have been singing like they
Consultant Bob Streit: New forces are driving the market for what you grow Read More »
If you prefer to read the original report in German, here’s the link. On March 4, 2016, the results of “Urinals 2015« were presented to the media in a well-attended press conference at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin. As part of the “urinals” have a total of 2011 citizens from Germany in the
Glyphosate measured in urine of 99.6% of 2,009 German citizens tested Read More »
Just as the European Union’s health commissioner is poised to re-license glyphosate herbicides for another 15 years, several EU nations have launched strong objections. By March 5, three nations threatened to vote against the re-approval. A March 5 report by Sustainable Pulse provides details at this link. By March 8, the rebellion had grown to several other nations, which recommended
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Farmers who are extending their rotations with cover crops or a wider array of crops gradually realize another payback: For each “bad bug” in your fields, dozens of beneficial insects start showing up. And the good bugs wage constant war on the destructive predators. One of the clearest reports on that fact is in the
Encouraging your predator insects…. to attack each other Read More »