Dr. Joseph Mercola, America's No. 1 online health advocate, is launching a broad-based campaign for "Regenerative Agriculture." His alliance includes global activists for healthy agriculture such as India's Vandana Shiva.
April...
Profitable prices for corn, soybeans and wheat underscore the importance of high yields this season. But seasonal forecasts are raising the odds of a second year of dry-weather stress in the...
Spraytec, a major Brazilian crop nutrition manufacturer, has invested years of experience overcoming Brazil's mineral deficient soils. Now they're offering a broad-spectrum mineral and biostimulant blend, Impulse, to help American...
Here's where you can download and read the 2020 field test results of Vitazyme — probably the most thoroughly proven biostimulant in agriculture. In previous years, our Renewable Farming field...
For 30 years I've encouraged Renewable Farming: a focus on biological products and cover crops to restore soil health, long-term yield gains and wider profit margins.
March 31, 2021 By Jerry Carlson ...
Today, two stories popped up on my computer which coincided to dramatize how farm consolidation, technocracy and federal "help" are making farming less resilient and more stressful.
March 28, 2021 By Jerry Carlson...
This brief report links you to a new 40-page Belize Ag Report, giving you a glimpse of fascinating farming diversity in Central America. Belize is the only Central American nation...
The experiment reveals more extensive rooting
in both seed-treated plants, compared with the
untreated plant at right. The grow-out time
was five months under two LED lights,
in a cool farm...
Iowa agronomic consultant Bob Streit often refers to an unorthodox meteorologist, Simon Atkins, who incorporates many factors into his seasonal forecasts. Here's an excerpt from Bob's weekly report to his clients...
Here's another small but dramatic demonstration that deep, fibrous corn roots with abundant mycorrhizal fungi can save bushels under dry-weather stress.
March 11, 2021 — Since January, we've repeated several greenhouse trials...
February 22, 2021 By Jerry Carlson Living and working on your farm or ranch is a haven from pandemic paranoia, cultural clashes and financial fears tormenting families in locked-down cities. Our small farm...
When a farmer hitches up a planter or climbs into a combine cab, a flood of adrenaline fuels his Mission From On High. Full speed ahead! No time for flagging...
“Over the last 20 years, we’ve never seen a drought situation looking like this through February. There’s extensive drought in the Northern Plains. There’s exceptional drought in the four-corner states....
One vital climate fact hammered into memory from my interview with climatologist Dr. Reid Bryson decades ago: Expansion of the westerly winds over the Northern Hemisphere relates directly to a...
This season, Renewable Farming offers farmers one of the most intriguing biological innovations we've seen in years. They're beneficial bacteria and fungi called endophytes. These microbes live inside your crops, helping them withstand...
The Israel Institute of Technology and Aleph Farms of Rehavot, Israel just announced development of ribeye steak grown from living cells in a laboratory. Meat with the texture, appearance and taste...
My favorite weather website is Weather Underground. Its 10-day forecast displays a full-page linear chart predicting temperature, precipitation, wind speeds and other details you can see at a single glance.
February 3, 2021...
Renewable Farming's biological principles are now "mainstream ag technology." That was the theme of the "new" AgriEnergy Solutions LLC seminar which I attended Thursday, Jan. 28.
January 30, 2021 By Jerry Carlson ...
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...