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

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

Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance

I have long been an advocate of foliar feeding nutrients as one of the most financially rewarding applications that can be made

Insect Management · Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance

It is important to propagate aphids in our fields so the beneficial insects such as lady beetles have something to feed on.

Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance · Soil Health

Mutations are the results of causes, not the causes of results. ~ Grantly Dick Read The word ‘mutations’ in the quote above

Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance

When a wolf succeeds in catching a rabbit for dinner, which of them is a pest? Is a wolf a pest while

Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance

Nutrients should be available, but not soluble ~ William Albrecht To develop regenerative farming systems, it is important that any soil amendments

Insect Management · Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance

Sugar metabolism and carbohydrate synthesis are at the very foundation of plant health, but we generally don’t learn much about them in

Our Articles · Plant Health and Pest Resistance

We have become masterful at hitting the bull’s eye of the wrong target. A colleague sent me a recent article1 describing the