by kbonen@esiagconsulting.com | Jul 24, 2020 | bacteria, earthworms, fungi, mycorrhizae, Soil Organisms
What critters are in soil, and what do they do? Soil may seem like just something to hold up houses or a place for our plants to grow, but there’s a whole world of living critters down there working hard in their individual niches—each critter has an important job...
by kbonen@esiagconsulting.com | Jun 19, 2020 | Crop Disease, Crop scouting, economic thresholds., Insects, pests, scouting thresholds
Why we don’t always treat when we see a problem When I scout a field, I look for anything out of the ordinary during the growing season. Each part of the season brings a new set of challenges. Early on, there are weeds to consider, emergence problems, and seedling...
by kbonen@esiagconsulting.com | May 19, 2020 | groundwater, organic matter, Soil development
One of the world’s greatest resources moves at its own pace. Each day I drive to work, it’s a half hour drive down the same highway. Last year, Nebraska raised the speed limit on many of the highways, theoretically lowering the amount of time needed to spend on the...
by kbonen@esiagconsulting.com | Apr 20, 2020 | dieting, Fake Meat, plant-based meat, vegans, vegetarians, veggie burger
People can be picky and tricky. In this self-conscious age, there are just as many opinions on how to eat healthy as there are personalities. The list of diets people have clung to include low fat, low sodium, Mediterranean, vegetarian, vegan, no red meat, low starch,...
by kbonen@esiagconsulting.com | Mar 31, 2020 | groundwater, hydrologic cycle, surface water, water, water cycle
When you see a picture of the earth, you see that a majority of it is blue. Three-quarters of the surface of the earth, in fact, is covered in water. That’s 118,500,000 square miles covered with the stuff. If there is so much of it on earth, why has the U.S....
