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Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance

Most commercial crops are photosynthesizing at only a fraction of their inherent capacity. The limiting factors that keep them from reaching their

Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance · Weed Management

Some new research1 describes the impact of pre-emerge glyphosate applications on seedling development and yields, and the impact of prior year appplications.

Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance

For direct-seeded crops, seed treatments are the least expensive and highest return application a grower can apply.  Seed treatments can contain bacterial

Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance

Why would you add toxins to your food? ~ Michael McNeill (When asked whether it is appropriate to add foliar fertilizers to

Broad Acre Crops · Our Articles · Soil Health

Laboratory leaf sap analysis has given us remarkable insights into plant nutrition. We have learned a great deal about nutrient interactions and

Our Articles · Weed Management

Would you have guessed that it is possible to prevent weed seed germination by exposing them to a specific electromagnetic signal? In

Broad Acre Crops · Buckwheat · Cereals · Our Articles · Soil Health · Spring Wheat · Winter Wheat

The presence of soil-borne disease infection is not correlated to the presence of an infectious organism, but to the absence of suppressive

Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance · Soil Health

Without the contribution of plants, ‘soil’ is only decomposed rock particles.   Plants contribute sugars, organic matter, carbon, the energy that sustains

Cover Crops · Our Articles

For those who are yet undecided, Evidence continues to accumulate regarding the pronounced negative effect of glyphosate on soil health, and how

Our Articles · Soil Health

This is a field in Pennsylvania in December 2019. It appears the section on the left has less residue, and possibly more