We’ve found alfalfa is a delightful and very responsive crop to foliar feed with WakeUP Spring, which is formulated to amplify nutrient flow through the phloem systems of crops.  When alfalfa can pump more sugars from photosynthetic chlorophyll cells into roots, stems and storage cells, nutrient quality and density of alfalfa rises sharply. July 20, 2017 […]

Here’s a link to  the online reports of the relatively new “Quick Drought Response Index“, dubbed QuickDRI by the eight government agencies that cooperated to build the software and database. It’s handy to bookmark this site so you can keep an eye on the multiple weather factors which anticipate crop stress. July 16, 2017 — It’s

Computerized field sprayer systems revealed how WakeUP makes spray solutions easier to pump through spray tips and in-furrow system orifices. Farmers occasionally phoned from the field to tell us: “When I added WakeUP Summer to the spray solution, the computer reduced the pressure by three pounds to deliver the same rate of spray per acre.” July

Some entrepreneurs aspire to build a multi-million-dollar company, then sell it for billions. We aspire to meet more wonderful people we’ve gotten to know as friends and clients. Relationships with growers and product developers who are enthused, even passionate, about healthy food and healthy soil contain the real riches in our realm. July 11, 2011

The “Dicamba damage” story has gotten such broad attention that it’s being picked up by the Wall Street Journal in a feature today. This link takes you to their report, although you’ll need a WSJ subscription to read the full story. July 11, 2017 — So far, most official damage complaints to regulators have shown up

One of our farmer clients just phoned to order a new WakeUP supply along with some Vitazyme, adding the comment: “What convinced me to keep up a summer foliar nutrition program is based on what I’m seeing in our garden.” July 8, 2017 — He told us, “We’ve sprayed WakeUP alone — no traces, no NPK

Crop consultant Bob Streit of Boone, IA has alerted broadcast media in Iowa and Nebraska to encourage farmers to scout cornfields for early signs of Goss’s wilt, a bacterial disease. July 7, 2017 — Goss’s  hasn’t been widely expressed in the Midwest the past couple of years, but this season’s stormy, humid weather in much

You may not hear much about the cyclical cooling just a few years ahead. The solar cycle data pointing to a potential replay of the chilling “Maunder Minimum” of global cooling gets spiked by government and media riders on the tax-financed climate-change gravy train. July 4, 2017 By Jerry Carlson — One data-logging retired Illinois farmer,

  This season for the first time, we can offer you one of the most proven biostimulants we’ve found: Vitazyme. It’s from Vital Earth Resources, a family firm in Texas. Our on-farm tests shows foliar-sprayed Vitazyme raises corn and soybean yields when applied alone. And it raises yields even more when blended with WakeUP. The