Regenerative Grazing Isn’t a Climate Fix; Cut Beef
Some people continue to advocate for regenerative grazing as a big climate solution. But it's not. The better answer is to cut back on beef consumption, curb food waste, and rethink the food system. https://drawdown.org/insights/greenwashing-and-denial-wont-solve-beefs-enormous-climate-problems
Seaweed Feed Isn't a Simple Fix for Cattle Methane
I'm still surprised some people seem to think that we just need to feed seaweed to cows, and their methane emissions just goes away… It's not that simple. https://drawdown.org/insights/are-livestock-feed-additives-the-future-or-folly
US Soybean Planting Hits Record Pace, Corn Also Ahead
🇺🇸U.S. soybean planting is on a record fast pace as farmers prefer to plant beans earlier. Most states are many percentage points ahead of average (except Iowa, which has been wet). But wet weather/early bean planting haven't held back corn planting,...
RNA‑based Herbicide Kills Resistant Weeds, Leaves Crops Untouched
🟢 GreenLight = no chemical residues on our crops 🌱 The company heard the call to get off of glyphosates and already has more EPA approvals and products in the pipeline than any other new approach. Why does this matter? Herbicide resistant weeds...
2026‑27 RVOs Drive Critical D4 RIN Generation Requirements
1. TH and I are out with a new FDD on the implications of the 2026 and 2027 RVOs for required D4 RIN generation. I know that is a mouthful. But the question is a critical one...
Measure Field Water & Nutrients; Adopt Diverse, Living Farming
This sounds brash… but it’s how I think. At @zebulousprime’s field day I did a @Farm4ProfitLLC podcast and said “I don’t like to be a bitch.” Water can make you its bitch. Weeds follow the stand inconsistencies especially in drowned out spots. ...
US Wheat Signals Potential 2026 Corn Belt Drought
May Agriculture Outlook - Is US Wheat Foretelling a 2026 Corn Belt Drought? Gas May Guide April is typically a peak price month in the grains. Speculators are the longest they've been in about three years, while winter and spring wheat...
Farming Embraces Autonomous Technology for Future Growth
From Barns to Bots: Farming Enters the #Autonomous Era by @Fabriziobustama #TechForGood #Innovation #Tech #Technology https://t.co/WCBD8Jkmkq
AI Boosts Food Supply Through Safer, Efficient Agriculture
Everybody eats. Improving our food supply and safer more efficient agriculture is one of tue most direct ways for AI to help people
Good/Excellent Ratings Mask Worsening Wheat Condition
Why I don't just follow Good/Excellent ratings - Nebraska winter #wheat G/E rose 1 point this week, but its condition index score dropped 26 points because the percent rated Poor to Very Poor rose 20 points to 65% this week....
Fertilizer Price Spike Fuels US Farmer Bankruptcies, Calls for Lawsuits
US farmers' bankruptcies are SKYROCKETING. The US-Israeli war on Iran has caused prices of fertilizer to SOAR during the spring planting season. US FARMERS SHOULD SEND A BILL FOR DAMAGES TO TRUMP AND NETANYAHU. https://t.co/nMexGTOEtY
Leaf Microbiome: Untapped Asset Destroyed by Conventional Farming
The phyllosphere, the microbial community on leaf and stem surfaces, covers roughly one billion square kilometers globally. It is Earth’s largest terrestrial habitat for microbes, and it’s been overlooked by agriculture. A single gram of leaf tissue carries ten million bacterial...
Harvest Tomatoes at Breaker Stage for Flavor and Protection
Vine-ripened tomatoes are kind of a myth. Once a tomato starts turning red at the bottom, it's reached maturity... It's called the breaker stage and you can safely harvest @ this stage w/o losing any flavor at all Even better, it helps...
Wheat Needs Adequate Moisture to Fill Out Grain
Without sufficient moisture from rainfall or irrigation, wheat shoots struggle to fill out and produce grain https://t.co/v386ZS45Pu
Solar Corridors Boost Photosynthesis and Enable Crop Succession
I’ve been studying sunlight for over a decade. Know your plants physiological strive abilities. Don’t quite let them touch. With a little solar corridor you can maximize the photosynthetic capacity of a crop and simultaneously nurse another crop that will one...
Early Cereal Relay Triples Soybean Canopy Speed
Life comes at you fast. This is this morning… a couple days ago.. and the 3rd pic is last year where we had our normal production soybeans vs a relay field. It was too wet to plant the normal beans in...
Automated Injector Ensures Precise Medication for Transported Chicks
#Automated Injector Prepares Chicks for Transport with Precise Medication by @IntEngineering #TechForGood #Innovation #Tech #Technology https://t.co/zKLUopOU7J
Intercrop Wheat with Soybeans to Boost Yield, Cut Inputs
It’s a completely ass backward way to looking at agriculture. Plant 1/5 seed. Get 3-4x more yield per plant with less inputs. Make it yield less on purpose? Yes. (Because of crop #2) …. But do...
Robots Now Harvest Agricultural Microclimate Data
#WhosNext? Agricutural #Data collectors and analysts. #Robots can do that now. Various types of sensors can be used to detect microclimates on the premises or within the facility. (New China) #AgTech #Robotics https://t.co/EpgpvnZXcJ
Chaberton Energy Seeks Maryland Farming Partners for Agrivoltaics
RFP Alert: Chaberton Energy seeks farming partners for Maryland agrivoltaics projects #energysky -- via pv magazine usa: https://t.co/S7UvMyrQqr
Stale Seedbeds Retain Moisture, Boost Early Corn Planting
With the technology on today’s planters if the ground is fit and warm the corn seed has no idea whether the ground was “worked” or not…these better conditions usually take until the trees are leafing out… and sometimes we want...
Agrivoltaics Preserve and Boost Forage Quality, Study Shows
Agrivoltaics maintain or enhanche forage quality, study finds #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/fcVejDzobB
Urea Shortage Resurfaces; Urgent Need for New Fertilizer Solutions
We have a shortage of urea again. The last time I saw this was during the pandemic. We need to come up with better ways to produce fertilizer. Who's working on this?
U.S. Shifts Away From Canadian Fertilizer Dependency
Canada is legally part of the US Defense Industrial Base and a massive fertilizer producer. And buying Canadian fertilizer was never a problem for American farmers... Until recently.
Fertilizer Price Surge Triggers Gradual Food Inflation
Rising fertilizer prices are now hitting farmers, and eventually those will translate into higher wholesale food prices which will (assuming higher costs are passed onto consumers) eventually land at grocery stores too. The inflationary impulse doesn’t arrive all at once,...
Deep‑rooted Grasses Lock More Carbon than Crops
Deep-rooted grasses store substantially more carbon in their root systems than shallow-rooted crops, enhancing soil health without depleting existing organic material. This approach offers a sustainable strategy for carbon sequestration. soilscience
Trade Official's Import Limits Raised Fertilizer Costs for Farmers
"If the president is worried about high fertilizer prices, he might want to have a conversation with his top trade official... [who] lobbied for policies that limited fertilizer imports and drove up prices for American farmers." Drain. The. Swamp. https://t.co/IU5lNBpAfN https://t.co/OcSBv6gDxx
Winter Wheat Health Plummets in Five Key States
🌾Five of the top U.S. winter wheat states (63% of the 2026 planted area) carry concerning health ratings. The shares of wheat rated poor or very poor in these five states are well above recent averages. But more notably, conditions have...
Cargill Launches Operational Canola Crush Plant in Regina
Cargill's new canola crush plant at Regina is officially up and running. Chat with Cargill VP Laura Hatcher: https://t.co/NkSCSzRmDk
USDA Reports 295k Tons U.S. Corn Sold for 2025/26
USDA confirms the following sales of U.S. corn for delivery in 2025/26: ▪️100,000 metric tons to Colombia ▪️195,000 metric tons to unknown destinations
US Redirects Fertilizer Overseas Amid Iran War Price Surge
Uh oh: "US buyers redirect imported fertilizer overseas as Iran war drives up global prices" https://t.co/bQZvdTkA8z https://t.co/4gCpKe44yx
Autonomous Machines Turn Seed Shooters Into Manure Spreaders
I have a burning desire to turn the seed shoot into a poop shoot for juice boxes Swarm autonomous machines sidedressing corn with 🐖 💩 2 rows at a time Semi brings 30 at a time
Future AI: Tiny, Cheap, Embedded, Not Massive
There's enormous focus on the heavy frontier AI models right now, but I don't think they're the future. The future will be lightweight "good enough" AI that can be embedded on cheap devices. Imagine a weed-killing robot. A tiny little thing,...
Herbicide‑free Cover Crops Boost Tilth in Tough Soils
On our “tougher” soils this system has proven to add tilth to these timber white clays. We leave out any herbicide pass in the fall to encourage our “free” cover crop to establish. The haters will call it...
Sprigging Wheat Creates Ideal Corn Seedbed, Cuts Weeds
This is what our fields look like the next spring from relay wheat. I call this method sprigging or “hot ice” A vertical till pass in the fall distributes the straw from wheat and both plants and thins the volunteer...
China Deploys Autonomous Robots for Rice Planting
#Autonomous Rice-Planting #Robots at Work in China by @ShangguanJiewen #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/E09YTAlk7a
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🇺🇸U.S. winter wheat conditions fell below all trade estimates to 30% good/excellent. That's approaching 2022 & 2023, among the lowest scoring years in recent memory. Despite some wet weather, U.S. corn & bean planting pace met expectations and remain ahead of...
Testing 8-Row Gaps for Higher Corn Yields
Will 8 rows with big ☀️ gaps win the high yield 🌽 plot? Well weight it and see this September https://t.co/GYu0XUhXSt
USDA's Weekly Report Highlights Winter Wheat Before Plains Freeze
USDA will release its weekly crop progress report this afternoon. The focus will be on the winter #wheat conditions, but keep in mind that the majority of survey responses were likely filed on Friday afternoon ahead of the weekend freeze...
Rethink Yield: Embrace Polycultures Over Scale‑Driven Monocultures
This is the formula… Agriculture is obsessed with yield + economies of scale What delusional is we’re diluting each plant’s yield. The alternative is polymath through polycultures. I’ll be here…cranking out the research until it’s seen as relevant in the lens...
China Makes Urea From Coal, While World Uses Gas
JUST IN: China uses coal for urea production, unlike the rest of the world that relies on gas.
North America Gains Urea Cost Edge Amid Global Gas Divergence
This chart underpins my positioning in North American nitrogen fertiliser producers. Urea supply has tightened following a sharp drop in exports from the Gulf. As urea production is highly sensitive to NatGas costs, the divergence in regional gas prices is...
Fertilizer Costs Surge 53%, Threatening Food Inflation
Fertilizer prices have moved up to their highest levels since May 2022, rising 53% YoY. About a third of global fertilizer supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz. This will drive food price inflation higher in the coming weeks/months. Video: https://t.co/XaN1isYjSt
Drone‑planted Alley Corn Doubles Yield without Tillage
Alley crop corn project is an epic success. This was droned on seconds before the chopping corn head collapsed that 2x corn yield on 1/2 space on top of the seed The denser stand is where the corn was last year...
Wider Rows and Manure Sidedress Boost Corn Yields
Planting our manure sidedress plot. 60” blocks of corn consistenting of 4 20” rows Outside rows at 53,400k Inside rows at 37,400 34k /ac Will give us a wide 60” tram rows 120” on center for manure tank traffic Long term idea is getting this dialed in...
Wider Rows and Adjusted Spacing Overcome Late Sidedress Limits
For your information. How we get around the late sidedress impediment of 20” rows… we plant 40” rows 140” on center to allow the sprayer to @360yieldcenter y drop every 60’ as well as spray every 120’ We increase tram rows to...
Burger Prices Surge, Imports Rise, Exports Fall.
"Burgers approach luxury territory as beef prices remain high" https://t.co/kxMtibg3NB "Imports are rising to fill the gap, while exports are falling as domestic supply tightens." https://t.co/U23joP278Z
Crop Input Giants Accelerate Biologicals Growth, Report Shows
Every major crop input company now has a biologicals strategy. The question is how are they progressing and what specifically are they doing? I just published an updated report that tracks the biologicals and specialty nutrition strategies, revenues, acquisitions, partnerships, pipelines,...
AI Counts Potatoes Instantly with Minimal Training
#AI on the Assembly Line: Instant Potato Counting with Minimal Training by @IlirAliu_ #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML #MI https://t.co/Z0HPxgGqY6
Solar FarmBot Automates Gardening with Zero Effort
Effortless Gardening: Solar-Powered FarmBot Handles It All by @BusinessInsider #AgriTech #Robotics #Innovation #Technology #TechForGood https://t.co/IApH3GsWmj