Our first-season experience with rain lilies foretold today's showers across much of central and eastern Iowa. Our lilies were a gift last fall from a friend, Hal Brown of Windy...
Kern County is the food and oil heart which long ago branded California as the "Land of fruits and nuts." But now, California's virtue-signaling politicians are intent on choking this economic powerhouse with...
Why doesn't it ever rain on our farm? Here in northeast Iowa, we've watched storm images on radar all spring, and usually the rain systems veer off to the south and...
We're seeing farmers' interest in microbes proven to help crops cope with hot, dry weather. For good reasons. Today's lead AgWeb feature: "As Heat Builds, Current Drought Conditions Already Exceed Devastating...
People driving past our farm today will see a row of American flags fluttering above our pasture beside the road. It's our salute to Flag Day.
June 14, 2021 But in a broader sense,...
We’ve listened to the theories of what caused Covid-19 and wonder why so few are asking the basic questions: How does a land get so toxic that it cannot feed...
Crop consultant Bob Streit based in Boone, IA allows us to select and publish comments from his weekly updates to clients, primarily in Iowa. Today, Bob describes in detail that the...
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
June 6, 2021 That's...
Lignition is a plant-derived yield enhancer that costs only $5.50 per acre and shows a track record of lifting corn yields 15 to 32 bu. per acre in professional random-rep...
Soybeans in the photo below are pushing their second trifoliate leaves just over three weeks from a May 1 planting date. Temperatures in this north central Iowa county were slightly warmer...
A dozen years ago our first recommendation for applying WakeUP was: "Spray when corn or beans are at stage V2 to V4." That's about pop-can high. We'd found that's the...
Foliar feeding season is coming up fast — and here's one of the most comprehensive research presentations we've seen, documenting benefits of foliar-applied nutrition. Here, we summarize a presentation by...
More than 10,000 international medical experts and 1,000 attorneys have joined a fast-emerging class action lawsuit against the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and other health agencies for Covid-19 "crimes...
Our farmer clients are cautious about exuberant over-investing in land and equipment amid the adrenaline rush of $7 corn and $15 beans. They're wise. Here's some perspective from a farmer...
Crop consultant Bob Streit of Central Iowa Agronomics is one of our key WakeUP distributors, and he also allows us to occasionally post excerpts from his reports to farmer clients....
The Biden administration's "American Families Plan" would tax inherited land at capital gains rates as a sale. That would curtail childrens' ability to inherit a farm with a new tax basis "stepped up" to...
My longtime friend Jim Wiesemeyer, Pro Farmer's policy and trade analyst based near Washington DC, posted this prediction today on ProFarmer.com:
"How low will Brazil’s corn crop go? A lot lower than many think and...
The April 27 U.S. Drought Monitor map shows "abnormally dry" conditions creeping eastward from the Southwest and Plains states into Iowa and the Eastern Corn Belt. Here's an inexpensive array of...
Robust prices for corn, beans and wheat — but breathtaking costs for fertilizer and many crop protection products — create a powerful incentive for enhancing your foliar spray program with WakeUP.
April 29,...
In 2009, Renewable Farming LLC was the first to document how the colloidal micelle technology of WakeUP enhances foliar-sprayed nutrient absorption and translocation.
Renewable Farming has proven this with hundreds of...
