Corn growers who’ve seen saturating rainfalls this month have accelerated their soil nitrogen tests and followed through with streaming or dry nitrogen applications. Here’s what some top agronomic advisors recommend now, so you can make the most of a strong seasonal start. June 21, 2018 — Here are their key points to keep corn vigorous and […]

“The most profitable, fertile soil is the one with the largest population of beneficial microorganisms and a vigorous soil food web.” June 19, 2018 — That quote from AgriEnergy Resources founder Dave Larson was a typical opening theme for his seminars — in the mid-1980s. He urged farmers to build living soils long before today’s agronomic firms, researchers and Extension

  We’re fortunate that Goss’s wilt doesn’t challenge the corn crop every season like it did in 2011, and again in 2015.  But it’s advisable to scout this season’s fast-growing corn for early signals of this bacterial disease. Symptoms vary, and a good refresher is to browse this article written by Alison Robertson, Department of Plant Pathology and

Rapidly growing corn can sometimes outrun its ability to extract and deliver nutrients from the soil. That hidden hunger can be supplemented with foliar fertility. Foliar application is a highly efficient way of delivering NPK and trace elements.   June 14, 2018 — University of Nebraska research shows that only 10% to 40% of soil-applied nitrogen

Usually, the visual differences in corn growth caused by planting dates or early fertilizer fade as corn accelerates into its rapid growth phase from V5 through early tassel. But so far this spring, corn given an in-furrow microbial boost, Environoc 401, is showing a consistently widening growth advantage over untreated corn in adjacent rows. This comparison represents entire

A June 8 Wall Street Journal feature by Jo McGinty reports that researchers documented a 76% drop during 1989-2016 in the number of flying insects living in 63 German nature preserves. June 9, 2018 — Entomologists around the world are aware that insect numbers, and the range of species, has been declining for decades. But

Non-chemical weed control takes a lot more management than back in the “see ’em, spray ’em” days before resistant weeds. But organic growers are showing it’s possible to raise good soybean yields, herbicide-free. Research results indicate that a few weed escapes don’t have as much impact on yield as they probably do on the grower’s pride in a

The fastest-growing food label amendment in America is the “Non-GMO Verified” sticker. In Germany, growth of a similar non-GMO verified seal is soaring by more than 25% annually — and accelerating. June 7, 2018 — A headline today on the international Feed Navigator website: “Germany expects to see record Non-GMO food sales.” If you follow this link and read

Jill Carlson is a book author, mother of three married children and grandmother of seven children. Here she reviews the eye-opening new book: What’s Making Our Children Sick? by Michelle Perro, MD and research scientist Dr. Vincanne Adams. What would you do for these kids?  Mike… at age ten became angry and rebellious. His family of six was close-knit: boy