Crisp fall weather is here, all of us are busy wrapping up a challenging growing season. The weather extremes in June and July were very stressful on both crops and farmers. On AEA Pure Dawn Farm in Orwell Ohio, we experienced standing water in our fields for close to four weeks, which lead to crops with almost nonexistent...

At Advancing Eco Agriculture, we have the privilege of working with many different farms, and many different types of farmers and farm managers. We have observed that farm managers tend to be on a spectrum of management intensity. Some farmers measure and manage everything they can. Others don’t. Some farmers are exception...

Have you observed any interesting anomalies with water use and water penetration the last few years? 

We have been observing some interesting changes in water movement in soil, on a very widespread scale, with many different soil types, and with different management systems. At this point, we have not been able to determine...

Plants can tell us many things if we are willing to observe and listen. We are always looking for ways to monitor plant health and nutritional integrity in the field. When we are able to monitor nutritional integrity and correlate balanced attrition with disease and insect resistance, we have a solid basis for preventing p...

Producing top quality 100% grassfed beef requires good management skills and a very multidimensional approach which constantly considers economics, forage and livestock genetics, animal health, and grass performance. All of these factors are heavily influenced by soil health and mineral nutrition, since soil health influen...