Title Year Category
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Just for the record, lets remember the weather of spring, 2001. If you didn’t get the crops planted before May, chances are you didn’t get them planted until after May. The wet weather meant it was not a …


Publish Date
February 4, 2002

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Paul and Karen Mugge
Dick and Sharon Thompson
Description

Gary and Nancy Guthrie, Nevada, have a CSA garden where new questions are always cropping up. In 2001, they addressed questions of fertility, specifically foliar fertilization. Gary had read that potatoes responded to a fish emulsion-kelp mix and …


Publish Date
February 3, 2002

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Gary and Nancy Guthrie
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Jeff Klinge, Farmersburg. Early in January 2000, when I was starting to make my plans for the coming crop year, the company that I decided to work with offered contracts on two varieties for organic soybeans: Vinton 81 …


Publish Date
February 3, 2002

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Description

PFI cooperators have completed trials in a Leopold Center-supported project to examine composting of swine hoophouse manure. This “manure” is almost as much bedding as it is manure. Feeder pigs eat about three pounds of feed for every …


Publish Date
February 2, 2002

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Biosolids-who pays 2000-2009
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Let’s dive right into a topic that has kept PFI cooperators and ISU scientists occupied the last two years – manure, or, more generally, “biosolids.” The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture funded a study of swine hoophouse manure …


Publish Date
February 1, 2002

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Wayne and Ruth Fredericks
Paul and Karen Mugge
Colin and Carla Wilson
Neely-Kinyon Research Farm
Greenfield
Dick and Sharon Thompson's
Dordt College Agricultural Stewardship Center
Description

The soybeans started out very well; but foxtail came in later. I thought they looked very poor at our field day in late summer. But the experts thought they would make 30 bushels per acre and they were …


Publish Date
February 12, 2001

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Jeff Klinge
Description

In the last several years, you may have heard something about PFI’s work with fertility paradigms. If so, you probably heard the explanation that a paradigm is a way of looking at the world, a way of making …


Publish Date
February 11, 2001

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Dennis and Eve Abbas
John Bokelman
John Hestad
Dave and Lisa Lubben
Dave and Lisa Lubben
New Melleray Abbey
Manure and Compost 2000-2009
Description

In the last five years, swine hoophouses have sprung up all over the state. Those deep-bedded systems use a tremendous amount of crop residue. When the hoophouse is cleaned out, the mixture of bedding and manure contains a …


Publish Date
February 10, 2001

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Vic and Cindy Madsen
Dave and Becky Struthers
Colin and Carla Wilson
Dan and Lorna Wilson
Tom and Irene Frantzen
Wayne and Ruth Fredericks
Paul and Karen Mugge
Description

Weather affected field research in many ways in 2000′; the two nitrogen management trials. Northeast Iowa farmers John and Joan Lubke, Ridgeway, are part of PFI’s collaboration with the Iowa Farm Bureau. They expected a yield response to …


Publish Date
February 9, 2001

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
John and Joan Lubke
Darwin McGhee
Wayne and Ruther Fredericks
The Dordt College Agriculture Stewardship Center
Dennis and Kate McLaughlin
Dave and Beck Struthers
Gary and Venita Wilcox
Description

What’s in a starter fertilizer? Preferences about starters can be almost as strong as preferences about tractor color. Arlyn and Annette Valvick, Swea City, are part of PFI’s collaboration with the Iowa Farm Bureau. That program pairs producers …


Publish Date
February 8, 2001

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Description

In 1999, Paul and Karen Mugge, Sutherland, worked with ISU agronomist Richard Cruse to compare two strip intercropping systems, dubbed “walking” and “jumping” strips. The goal was to jump the corn strips around the field ahead of the …


Publish Date
February 7, 2001

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Cooperators
Paul and Karen Mugge
Description

What is the value of the Bt gene when it is used in the corn plant to resist corn borer? That is one of the questions in the minds of Dordt College Agricultural Stewardship Center staff who have …


Publish Date
February 6, 2001

PFI Staff
Practical Farmers of Iowa