In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Midwest Bio-Tech, we listen in as Rick Clark explains how he’s avoided applying pesticides, fungicides, insecticides and even starter fertilizer for the past few years.

If you’ve ever paused for a moment in the tractor, in a field or in your shop and wondered where agriculture is heading in the future, Allan Savory has done that too — and he doesn’t like what he’s seeing.

Spensa Technologies Inc., a precision agriculture technology company, and Spectrum Seed, a premium, non-GMO seed company, announced a partnership that allows corn growers in the Midwest the ability to collect important pest population data for insects such as corn earworm, western bean cutworm and European corn borer in near real-time, powered by Spensa’s Z-Trap Network.

Non-GMO soybeans may provide a niche market for growers to make a little more per acre when higher crop prices are needed, says South Dakota State University Extension.

As the use of Roundup Ready crops decline, growers are turning to LibertyLink and non-GMO traits, while the use of insecticides and fungicides is also trending downward.

Corn growers interested in obtaining non-GMO corn premiums need to develop plans to minimize pollen contamination of non-GMO corn, says Ohio State University Extension.