After your combine harvests a 200-bu. corn crop, it leaves behind stalks and leaves containing 90 lbs. of nitrogen, 35 pounds of phosphorus and 210 pounds of potassium. On top of that, the residue is locking up 39 lbs. of calcium, 28 lbs. of magnesium and 18 lbs. of sulfur. There’s also a wide array …
Since the early 1980s, our mentors for research integrity behind farm products and practices were Dick and Sharon Thompson, a farm couple from Boone, Iowa. Dick Thompson has now passed on to many rewards in Heaven. They were instrumental in founding the research and sharing organization, “Practical Farmers of Iowa” in 1985. PFI now includes 1,500 …
Graphic of the world’s biggest cash crops Vandana Shiva: “Farm-free” lab food is catastrophic for health and environment Huge new study finds glyphosate residues in a wide range of our foods Freeze hits French wine grapes. Where’s global warming when we need it? China’s “Belt and Road” eyes a wet corn …
“Low crop prices have farmers discussing the potential cost savings of buying conventional non-GMO corn seed,” writes Sarah Carlson in the February Wallaces Farmer (page 34).She points out that over several years, “Yield comparisons show the cheaper seed maintains similar yields as the GMO seed.”Then, Carlson counters a typical objection to leaving GMOs and related …
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