For the first time, farmers and other citizens are gaining a glimpse of the backchannel influences orchestrated by the big biotech firms. Part of the story broke Sept. 5 in a front-age New York Times feature by Eric Lipton: “Food Industry Enlisted Academics in G.M.O. Lobbying War, Emails Show.” Lipton wrote his feature based on emails and […]
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On Sept. 4, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment published a “Notice of Intent” to list glyphosate and three other ag chemicals as known to cause cancer. Such a listing would not bar use of the chemicals, but would require a warning label. The details of the agency’s intended rule are shown on the state’s
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Through the 1970s, media alarmists were warning the world that atmospheric pollution would soon propel our globe into a new Ice Age. The “news” headlines grew successively more terrifying until about 1979, when a decade of very inconclusive temperature trends wore out the public’s willingness to listen to warnings about the wolf of global cooling. The
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1. This late heat seems to be hurting the corn and helping soybeans. Pods should fill now, while the corn will be pushed harder toward black layer maturity, often ahead of normal. 2. Lots of Northern Corn Rootworm beetles can be seen in both soybean and some corn fields. It sure appears that
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The headline on this article is a paraphrase of crop consultant Bob Streit’s comment to farmers — tactfully avoiding the fact that he’s referring to the major biotech firms pushing GMOs and their related residues into the global marketplace. Well, both of these constituencies are intensifying their crusades against toxic herbicides, primarily glyphosate, and against
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Dr. Don Huber, the “anchor” speaker at today’s field day sponsored by BRT Ag and Turf, documented the failed promises of the “biotech revolution” in agriculture. And he pointed to the statistical trends on U.S. health — such as the projection that in just another 10 years, one out of two children will suffer from
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If you could not attend the field day at Stockton on Sept. 2, BRT is making video disk available. See contact information below. BRT Ag & Turf Field Day 2015 September 2nd at Stockton, IA two miles north of exit 280 on Interstate Highway 80. Hosts are Keith and Vernon Schlapkohl. Speakers 8:30-10:00 ~ Dr. Don Huber
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An Aug. 31 windshield cruise around northeast Iowa showed many yellowing areas in otherwise still-green soybean fields. Uniform yellowing and leaf drop indicates maturity, but the patchy areas can offer signals of nutrient deficiency, too much or too little moisture, or disease symptoms. A current and knowledgeable report on how to read the signals was recently
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Most crop farmers across the Midwest see the foliar feeding “season” has ended. Our byword for foliar feeding is, “If it’s green, spray it.” If you use the principles in the foliar feeding presentation which you can download from the links in this article, you’ll see ways to extend the nutrient-feeding season and use opportunities
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The Patriot Post has a clear summary of a federal judge’s injunction against the Environmental Protection Agency’s “over-reach” in its latest regs tightening the Clean Water Act. Somehow, EPA has interpreted “navigable waters of the United States” to mean anyplace outdoors which might get rained on. Judge Ralph Erickson of the District Court for the District of
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