Blake Carlson, a high school senior who intends to study biologically focused agriculture in college, wrote an overview of today’s mainstream farming which exposes its potential inability to satisfy a consumer marketplace that’s rapidly changing. Most farmers are unaware of new, insistent demands for more highly nutritious, pesticide-free and GMO-free food. Blake is the third generation here […]

Corn and soybean yields respond to WakeUP — but garden vegetables and fruit respond even more dramatically. That’s a personal observation from watching our gardens grow for the past seven years we’ve researched and enhanced WakeUP. A perspective by Jerry Carlson, Renewable Farming LLC       Published Feb. 14, 2016 With WakeUP sprayed on gardens every

We are now into the second month of the year. January, traditionally the coldest month of the year, is over with and most of us survived its cold blasts. The big Iowa Power Show was scheduled for last week, and as is normal for about 50% of the years we had a blizzard to prevent

President Obama has requested $1.8 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds to “fight Zika virus” globally. This follows a World Health Organization declaration that Zika is a serious pandemic, leading to congenital malformations, especially newborns with small brain size. The panic fed by WHO and Ministry of Health officials in Brazil is already terrifying pregnant women across

We’ve seen farmer enthusiasm run high at several “biological farming” conferences and seminars this winter. Very few farmers at these meetings were moping about low grain prices. Instead, they were usually asking about new production ideas which promise to enhance profit margins — while building soil productivity. Here’s a summary of technologies, management methods and marketing opportunities which these