French artist Jean-François Millet painted “The Man With a Hoe” in 1862. The oppression of that image inspired American poet Edwin Markam to create in 1889 a poem with the same name. June 4, 2018 — First we’ll take a look back in time. Then, forward to a more hopeful future. Here are just four of […]

The photo below just arrived from Vatché Kuftedjian, manufacturer of the Pursanova systems for structuring/energizing water. One of his farmer clients in southeastern Minnesota, Chris Sauer, has been watching a corn experiment emerge and grow this spring, and today sent Vatché a report. We followed up with Chris. June 4, 2018 — The two cornstalks

Ten years ago, Renewable Farming demonstrated to a neighbor how foliar feeding corn with slow-release nitrogen, mobilized with WakeUP, could add yield to an already excellent crop. That was our first “demo” of foliar feeding. Since then we’ve done thousands of foliar nutrition trials with a wide array of NPK, traces, biologicals and biostimulants. That accumulated data offered our

Crop scouting today has more “leverage” on getting the word out than before the era of sharing high-resolution cell phone photos via text messages and the internet. A grower can take a field photo and within minutes, the evidence of effects on crop are available to friends around the world. May 30, 2018 by Jerry Carlson

Here’s an early glimpse of how soybean roots looked two weeks after planting with, and without, Biodyne USA’s “Environoc 401” and WakeUP Spring applied in-furrow. Both sets of soybeans were dug from their side-by-side position in a 30-inch row, with a single spadeful of dirt. May 29, 2018 — This is just the first glimpse

After WWII, General Dwight Eisenhower said that our nation couldn’t have won the global war without the “contribution of the women of America, whether on the farm or in the factory or in uniform.” This Memorial Day, it’s appropriate to honor a new generation of American women who are counterattacking a global threat that could cripple our nation. April 28,

These photos arrived May 26 from Indiana grower Hal Brown. Planting date was May 2. We’ve never met a farmer who knows as much about root biology as Hal. He’s experienced with cover crops and no-till, too. His experience confirms: It takes an integrated system of biologically enhancing practices and products to create living synergism in the soil.  May

This is one of the logos proposed by USDA as it limps slowly toward compliance with a national labeling program for genetically modified foods.  May 26, 2018 — Advocates for clear-cut labeling of genetically modified food are protesting USDA’s proposed smiley-faced emoticon, which consumers are apparently supposed to know means “bioengineered” when it appears on a food package.  But administrative subterfuge could

This morning, AgriEnergy Resources in Princeton, IL e-mailed its clients and friends helpful guidance on beneficial foliar feeding for corn and beans in the early stages — two to five leaves. May 24, 2018 — Here’s what the AgriEnergy agronomists said. After those quotes we’ll add some recommendations of our own. “Another planting season is wrapping up. As we