Pollinator Week Has The Industry Buzzing With Excitement
Ag is taking action to combat declining pollinator populations. This week, industry, researchers and government join together to celebra...
Farmers Around the World Should be Watching the Roundup Cancer Case
The San Fransisco Superior Court will soon hear testimony from a man dying of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma who claims Roundup (glyphosate) cau...
Corn’s Carbon Cowboy Busts Outstanding Yields
No crop voodoo or mystery ingredients: Jim Nichols’ corn yields have jumped by an astounding 100 bu. per acre.
Former “Billion Dollar Bug” is Mounting a Come Back
One billion dollars. Prior to Bt technologies farmers lost $1 billion annually to corn rootworm—in the form of chemical costs or actual y...
In the Lime Light
Unlike nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, you don’t apply lime for plants—you apply it to feed soil microorganisms.
A Moving Target
Preventing corn from going hungry requires balancing nitrogen and other factors, from year to year and field to field Tending to the fer...
The Great Escape
Stabilizers and controlled-release products help keep the Houdini of nutrients where your crop needs it Applying nitrogen—corn’s most im...
Potassium Insight
Drought emphasizes the value of this vital nutrient If there was an upshot to the drought of 2012 it was that many farmers had a prime o...