“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin  When a bear wakes from hibernation, it is starving. Whether it is half-starved or near death depends upon its preparations the previous Fall.    Our soils are much like that bear; depending on what level of reserves they go into Winter makes a dramatic

Abiotic means non-living. So, abiotic stresses, in the plant world, are all the non-living factors that negatively impact the plant: temperature, salinity, drought, flooding, metal toxicity, and nutrient deficiency or excess are a few.   These stresses are commonly referred to as environmental stresses. Unfortunately, “[d]uring the decades of industrial revolution, humankind has continuously unbalanced its

Anyone who has gone through the CCA program and testing can tell you the importance of the 4 Rs: Right Source, Right Rate, Right Time, Right Place. The 4 Rs are of great importance to regenerative and biological agriculture as well. Knowing which microbial/biostimulant product to use, when to use it, and how to use

The human eye has the highest sensitivity for the color green, and since plants are critical for human survival, this makes sense. We look at the leaves of our plants every time we are in the field, but we do not often think about the denizens of this strange habitat, unless something is going wrong.

I like to compare biological inoculants to seeds. When we want a specific function from a cover crop, we plant those specific seeds (legumes/nitrogen fixing crops are the first to come to mind). We can wait for Nature to do this, but from Nature’s perspective the Holocene (the recent) is the last 10,000 years. Waiting

Foliar Nutrition By: Dennis Warnecke and Steve Becker If you have not started already, now is the time to start your foliar fertilization. This is by far the best way to make a nutritional correction to ensure proper plant health and increase size and yield while building soil health and stable carbon in the process.