The "Soil Health Resource Guide" gives you 76 colorful, practical pages on enhancing soil life — emphasizing cover crops to overcome soil problems like compaction, iron chlorosis and salinity. You can...
Our longtime friend Howard Vlieger of Maurice, IA this week announced a new website for the soil-friendly Weed Terminator 20 which he has been instrumental in developing for several years.
January 15, 2021 — The market-ready...
Many corn and soybean growers will be recalculating their 2021 crop input budgets after today's Annual Crop Production Summary. USDA cut 2020 corn yields by a surprising 3.8 bu. per acre. By early afternoon,...
"In China, food safety is threatened by an increasingly opaque political system." That's a daring headline for any Chinese writer to publish. But Yanzhong Huang published this criticism today in the South...
An AgWeb e-mail service called the Scoop headlined yesterday: "Regenerative Ag: The No. 1 Food Trend of 2020."
January 7, 2021 By Jerry Carlson That confirmation has taken 30-plus years for the mainstream ag media to...
The new battery-powered instrument brand-named GrainSense is gaining use globally for instant analysis of any grain's protein, moisture, carbohydrates and oil. The device interacts with your smartphone via Bluetooth, and transmits to a cloud-based database...
The U.S. government's updated dietary guidelines reject a scientific panel's urging to cut sugar and alcoholic intake. How much pressure did corporate food processors apply on USDA and Health and Human...
Biological farming will get another boost Jan. 14 and 28, with AgriEnergy seminars at Ft. Wayne, IN and Cedar Falls, IA. Manager Dean Craine will describe a "new chapter" in AgriEnergy's...
This year's National Corn Yield Contest winner is Don Stall of Charlotte, MI, with 476.91 bu. per acre in the conventional irrigated corn category. For a list of all 2020 corn...
Spraytec, a Brazilian fertility firm with years of experience, tested a new foliar called Fulltec Impulse across the Midwest this season. Results from six corn trials in Iowa, South Dakota...
In the next few weeks, we'll begin extracting highlights of a massive database called "Practical Farm Research" generated by Beck's Hybrids. This huge annual research project started in 2016. The 2020 report is...
Ivermectin has proven safe as an anti-parasitic drug for people and animals, used worldwide for many years. Until recently you could buy it at Tractor Supply and other farm stores in...
Dan Basse, president of AgResource Company, said today on AgWeb that the recent sudden shift in the corn market is unrivaled. "Four-dollar corn is the new reality for 2020. While the March...
Thanksgiving is meant to commemorate the first European settlers' surviving the harsh winters in this brave new world, with help from a number of local inhabitants. Like them, we have...
November 26, 2020 By Jerry Carlson — Mom opened the oven door on the golden-bronze turkey, and the captivating aroma weaved from the kitchen into into our living room. Uncle...
TV viewers who watched President Trump's rally Friday at Rochester, MN on CNN, NBC or similar networks saw only the 250-person group which Minnesota Governor Tim Walz "allowed" to enter the airport grounds. However,...
We first signaled on July 24 that early "stocking up" grain purchases by Chinese importers reflected grain user's concerns about flood-damaged crops across China, plus rebuilding the nation's hog herd. Soon...
This article updates ideas on how to enhance your "news efficiency" — just as you enhance your production efficiency. It adds new, reliable sources to those I suggested on this website January 16,...
"We had a lot of hurdles this year," Irvin Osterloh said Oct. 18 as he finished his 13th harvest of continuously cropped soybeans. "First a dry spell hit, then heavy rain and hail. Hail...
Thousands of planters have unused dry insecticide hoppers, and consultant Brad Forkner reports that one of his Illinois clients grossed an extra $35 an acre for a $3.25 cost —...
