National Cover Crop Summit
We’re proud to partner with Cover Crop Strategies as a Title Sponsor of the National Cover Crop Summit. For Spring 2021, the summit meets online for March 17 and 18.…
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Midwest Grows Green webinar
Scott Tess of Sustainable Urbana shares how compost topdressing improved the turfgrass performance for the City of Urbana. This webinar is part of Midwest Grows Green Week and is scheduled…
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Midwest Grows Green Week is coming!
Midwest Bio-Tech is sponsoring one of the webinars for this event. We have worked with this group on projects that measure changes in soil health through our lab.
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Microbial response to Chandler Soil and other treatments
We used the Solvita IRTH tool to measure the real-time impact of various soil treatments on microbial activity. The alternative treatments considered were Chandler Soil (red line, 16 ounces per…
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Returns to accelerated corn residue decay
One of our long-term customers asked us to evaluate the expected returns to the Biocat 1000 treatment he applied to corn stalks last fall (October 2018). Based on our previous…
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Cover crops in winter
Last December, we were sampling soils for a local customer, and the cover crops were looking good. Although the above-ground growth is limited due to the late seeding date, the…
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Dry Seed Treat on cover crop seed
For our first blog post, we have pictures of our recent tests with Dry Seed Treat on cover crop seed. Black mustard is a brassica that works great as a…
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