Kern County is the food and oil heart which long ago branded California as the “Land of fruits and nuts.” But now, California’s virtue-signaling politicians are intent on choking this economic powerhouse with climate-change edicts.  June 20, 2021 We’re alerting you to this Western battle because policies festering in Sacramento often go viral across America. Our source for this heads-up […]

Why doesn’t it ever rain on our farm? Here in northeast Iowa, we’ve watched storm images on radar all spring, and usually the rain systems veer off to the south and east. Or sometimes north. We hear the same anxieties from farmers asking, “Is there anything I can do to help my corn and beans hold

We’re seeing farmers’ interest in microbes proven to help crops cope with hot, dry weather. For good reasons. Today’s lead AgWeb feature: “As Heat Builds, Current Drought Conditions Already Exceed Devastating 2012 Season.” June 14, 2021  Fortunately, we can provide you two foliar-applied, drought-buffering products for crops. They’re live fungi and bacteria which weren’t available in 2012. We’ve studied

People driving past our farm today will see a row of American flags fluttering above our pasture beside the road. It’s our salute to Flag Day. June 14, 2021  But in a broader sense, we celebrate the U.S. flag every day. It’s displayed on every carton of WakeUP shipped to clients across the country and overseas. (See the label on our

We’ve listened to the theories of what caused Covid-19 and wonder why so few are asking the basic questions: How does a land get so toxic that it cannot feed its people? How do the people of that land lose their immune systems? June 12, 2021 by Jill Carlson   We started asking such questions in 1996

  Crop consultant Bob Streit based in Boone, IA allows us to select and publish comments from his weekly updates to clients, primarily in Iowa. Today, Bob describes in detail that the 2021 corn and soybean crops face stress challenges. June 8, 2021 We’ve also encouraged Midwest growers to provide “stress resistant” support to corn and soybeans,

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. June 6, 2021 That’s the opening stanza of the “Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first sung in 1837 at the dedication of the Concord Battle Monument.  An American

Lignition is a plant-derived yield enhancer that costs only $5.50 per acre and shows a track record of lifting corn yields 15 to 32 bu. per acre in professional random-rep field trials in Ontario, Canada. See the nearby chart, adapted from the Lignition website. This represents seed application, but Lignition can also be foliar-sprayed. We

Soybeans in the photo below are pushing their second trifoliate leaves just over three weeks from a May 1 planting date. Temperatures in this north central Iowa county were slightly warmer than normal in May, but rainfall was below normal. The farmer attributes vigorous growth to a variety known for good emergence, plus an in-furrow treatment of multiple

A dozen years ago our first recommendation for applying WakeUP was: “Spray when corn or beans are at stage V2 to V4.” That’s about pop-can high. We’d found that’s the best timing to trigger more prolific rooting, plus a burst of mycorrhizal growth, which amplifies uptake of moisture and nutrients. But few farmers found the