At Renewable Farming we have a front-row, real-time view of many discussions (and debates) among leading scientists and other experts worldwide. Here’s an example of such a person-to-person research network, sharing experience on honeybee “colony collapse disorder,” which threatens to devastate pollinating bees globally. Jan. 4, 2017 By Jerry Carlson — The connecting link is often a […]

The nutrition and health benefits of non-GMO soybean meal are growing so clear that poultry and livestock feeders are bidding for it. Especially, for meal produced by extrusion, rather than hexane solvent extraction. Financial plans and facilities for just such a production plant is underway at Marengo in southeast Iowa. The building, 27 acres and rail

This evening we came across a collection of farmer comments on the benefits they’ve found with WakeUP. The page of comments dates back to 2012, but it could have originated in 2016 because spray drift control, enhanced herbicide performance and foliar-feeding yield response are even more effective now than then. Here’s why: Dec. 29, 2016 — We

Dec. 24, 2016  By Jerry Carlson — 25 years ago, I and my friend Bob Fischer were in Moscow, reporting to American farmers on Russia’s farmland “reform.” It was growing from Glasnost, Russia’s new freedoms. The night of Dec. 24,  I watched an obviously anxious Russian TV newsman announce the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Georgia farmer Randy Dowdy told press conference watchers yesterday that contest-winning yields start with managing corn germination and emergence so every seedling spikes out of the soil at the same time.  Dec. 20, 2016 — Randy’s 521.4-bu. yield topped the 2016 National Corn Growers Association Corn Yield Contest for the strip-till irrigated division. Delta Farm Press has