Spring Madness
Hey everyone, and happy spring! I hope everybody is off to a successful planting season. It’s been hit or miss here recently on our home farm in Southeast Iowa with weather conditions for our own planting, but we are optimistic that the weather will stay on our side now! As we think about the spring […]
Why Are We Freaking Out About Carbon Intensity?!
The world at the intersection of Carbon and Agriculture is shifting in a very large way, and, oh by the way, this shift is going to make money available that should fit nicely into the pockets of farmers. Right now is the perfect time for farmers to start learning about this shift and how it […]
Continuum Ag’s Soil Sampling Approach
Continuum Ag®’s Soil Sampling Approach Soil sampling is an important management tool for farmers. Here at Continuum Ag®, we take a bit of a different approach to soil sampling. When a farmer enters their fields into our TopSoil® platform, we automatically pull in the USGS and SSRGO publicly available data. We use the slope, elevation, […]
The BIG Soil Health Event – 2023
The second annual BIG Soil Health Event was held in Cedar Falls, IA this year, and did not fail to amaze. More than 400 farmers, ranchers, and ag professionals showed up to learn more about soil health and the real-world implications of our past, present, and future with and without healthy soil. We had the […]
Expanding Our Sustainability Efforts Beyond The U.S.
Hey everyone, wanted to provide an update and a quick blog about my trip to the Netherlands. I’ve returned home, and throughout my entire trip I did not see one person wearing wooden shoes (what a total bummer). This trip to the Netherlands came up fairly last minute, a couple weeks ago we were notified […]
The 2022 Farm Progress Show
Every year, the Farm Progress Show reveals the latest and greatest technology, machinery, and ideas surrounding agriculture. Machinery companies, ag retail, farmers, ranchers, and many others come to the show to see the promising future of agriculture on display, and to determine what they should be spending their time focusing on as we head into […]
FLOLO Farm’s Field Day – An Intern’s Perspective
Loran Steinlage’s field day this past week in West Union, Iowa was an event unlike most. Granted, I haven’t been to many field days other than our own, but I was incredibly impressed. The speakers were incredibly diverse, ranging from relay cropping to microbial populations, to how soil health and human health have a direct […]
Interest in Regenerative Agriculture is Circling Continuum Ag from All Angles
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve given a blog update with things that have been going on with Continuum Ag®, so I figured it’s my turn to share some insights as to what we’ve really been up to. The future of agriculture is clearer than ever that regenerative systems are going to be needed […]
What is a C:N ratio, and why does it matter for my farm?
If you ask any farmer what their biggest limiting factors are on their farm, what do you think the biggest answers would be? I think the majority of farmers would say water, soil pH, or nitrogen. However, one of the biggest limiting factors often times gets overlooked; the carbon to nitrogen ratio. The C:N ratio […]
Farm Visit: Loran Steinlage
This week, we had the opportunity to visit Loran Steinlage’s farm. Loran is a farmer in northeastern Iowa, and is a big name when it comes to regenerative practices. When asked how many generations his family has farmed, Loran says that his grandfather moved here from Germany and he still has relatives farming in Europe. […]