The rivers of rain which lashed much of the upper Midwest in September and early October spawned an array of stalk rot fungi and bacteria which are now threatening substantial corn yield losses. Here's...

Caius Rommens, a genetic engineer who first worked at Monsanto and then for J.R. Simplot, published an editorial today on the Independent Science News website saying that he "renounces" his...

Australian researcher John McLean conducted an exhaustive audit on the key long-term climate data which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses for its "consensus" on man-made global warming. He...

Several new stalk residue digester products are emerging in the marketplace. Your decision may well be not deciding whether to speed residue breakdown, but "which one is best?"  Farmers' demand is demonstrating their effectiveness. Although...

Advertising-supported farm magazines have long taken a... well, a tactful approach to reporting the damage potential of ag chemicals. But this week, Prairie Farmer courageously focused directly on the huge challenge dicamba herbicides...

Here's a series of seven photos which farmer Howard Vlieger shot at his farm, and e-mailed us Sept. 17. They show the dramatic difference in soil absorption between his biologically managed and cover-cropped...

Five tons of stalk and cob residue recaptured biologically after a 250-bu. corn harvest contain roughly 112 lbs. of N, 40 lbs. of P2O5 and 275 pounds of K2O. Growers who've learned how to unleash biological...

Here's an early-September fall field report by Boone, Iowa crop consultant Bob Streit. There were many out of state and out of country visitors at the recent Farm Progress show. A...

"This part of our garden was solid Canadian thistle this spring," Howard Vlieger said in a message which accompanied the photo at the bottom of this report. Howard's home and...

One of America's venerable crop consultants, Dr. Carey Reams, often cited this maxim: "If you could double the thickness of a crop leaf, that leaf would increase its sugar production four times....

When Ken Hamilton and Salam Awada flew from Idaho to attend a farmers' meeting in Iowa Aug. 20. It's a signal of how important they see you as a farmer...

When I was a beginning ag journalist with Farm Journal, the senior crops editor advised me: When writing about a new idea for farmers, remember that your reader is telling you: “Write...

Today as we packaged some samples of various WakeUP solutions for further laboratory testing, the idea hit us: Most farmers who use wetting agents don't see what happens when those products...

Hopefully you're not seeing many cornfields like the one in the photo below, taken the first week of August in north central Iowa and first posted on our website Aug. 7. We've...