With the price/supply squeeze coming tighter during spring fertilizer purchases, farmers are looking for options that will still support high yields. It has been clear from looking at soil samples over the past 40 years that fields with regular manure applications are testing high to very high in phosphorus (P).

Biochar is a supercharcoal made by heating any residual biomass – for example, corncobs, husks or stalks, potato or soy residues, grass hay, rice or wheat straw, woody forestry residues, etc. – with little or no oxygen.

Many of us are either just opening 2022 corn silage, while some have already begun feeding this season’s corn silage harvest.

I’ve had calls from two friends lately. “We’re out of hay, I don’t know what to do, can you help us?”

Soil carbon markets are one of the latest incentives to move the agricultural community toward more sustainable, eco-conscious practices.