Coronavirus travel restrictions in Britain and the European Union are leaving British fruit and vegetable growers desperately short of about 70,000 seasonal workers — just weeks ahead of the first harvests. Photo source — fitfoodiefinds.com March 21, 2020 — UK farmer associations are appealing for help to replace migrant farmworkers normally drawn from across the EU. It’s reminiscent […]

Historically in a typical pandemic, the number of daily new cases accelerates rapidly, peaks out and declines slowly into the tail of a statistical “bell curve.” If that pattern persists with Covid-19, the U.S. could see encouraging improvements in new cases as soon as 60 days. Possibly anticipating that turnaround, corn and soybean futures flickered upward today, and the

On a sunny July day, each acre of your fully leafed-out cornfield is generating more than 750 pounds of sugar. That sugar factory pumps about a fourth of its load into the roots, feeding a myriad of soil microbes. In turn, the friendly fungi and bacteria dissolve vital minerals needed to fuel big yields. That’s the

Your personal immune system is the safest defense against contagious diseases. Nutritional vitality of the crops you raise — and the chemicals you apply — wield a huge influence on the immune defenses of people everywhere.  March 11, 2020   Commentary by Jerry Carlson — People’s natural immune defenses are eroding under constant attacks from environmental toxins and stresses.

The new Biological Age in soil health and farming calls for new monitoring tools — and Solvita has come up with an easy-to-use sensor that measures soil respiration in real time.  March 6, 2020 — Currently, the most likely users of the IRTH CO2 respirometer will be soil labs and innovative farmers keen to test soil

Here at Renewable Farming, we’ve field-tested and sold Vitazyme for several years. It’s a consistently cost-effective yield booster for any crop, and a perfect companion with WakeUP whether you foliar-feed or apply in-furrow.  Vitazyme is backed by 24 years of careful field testing worldwide, on virtually every kind of crop. We recommend 13 ounces of Vitazyme per acre ($5.99)

Spraytec’s fertility product assembles several of the firm’s biological and nutrient blends into a four-part “kit” that showed encouraging response in Midwest corn and soybean field trials during the 2019 season. February 21, 2020 — Spraytec is a Brazilian firm with years of agronomic experience under difficult South American growing conditions. One of the firm’s specialties is using

Here’s a detailed e-mail directly from a retired Chinese health and safety expert living in Beijing, offering a fairly optimistic view of that country’s coronavirus epidemic.  First, some background:   February 16, 2020  By Jerry Carlson — In 2014, a retired national-level safety and disaster prevention advisor to the Chinese government, Mr. Chen-I-Wan, was instrumental in

Bio-Mass Renewable Technologies (BRT) of Ladora, southeast Iowa, is offering a 60% biochar soil amendment product for $25 per ton, locally. It has other components, such as nitrogen, phosphate, sulfur and trace elements. And it’s about 30% by weight of diatomaceous earth, which adds mineral and micronutrients such as zinc. Not only that, but there’s a sweetener