Battling high costs with better biology: Carbon Cycle in the field

News · October 26, 2026

From Planet Earth Agronomy’s news release of October 21, 2026.

With diesel and fertilizer prices staying high, more growers are rethinking how they handle crop residue after harvest. Planet Earth Agronomy’s latest release follows Mike Bergman, who farms corn on corn near Elkhorn, Wisconsin. For a decade he leaned on tillage to make continuous corn work; in recent years he has added biology to the program instead.

Bergman put Carbon Cycle, PEA’s residue-management product, on his continuous-corn acres. What he describes: the residue breaks down so the planter runs clean in the spring, the nutrients tied up in last year’s stalks come back to the soil, and he is spending less on fuel and fertilizer while the soil gets better. His own summary: “We’re seeing our yields go up on some really rough ground.”

The release also quotes Dr. Fred Below of the University of Illinois on what residue really is: not trash, but nutrients waiting to be cycled back into the next crop. Every bushel of corn leaves roughly 44 pounds of dry residue in the field.

What it means for your farm

Carbon Cycle goes on after harvest in the fall, or in the spring before planting, to break down residue and feed the soil biology for the next crop. It is one piece of the season program we build around the Planet Earth Agronomy lineup: plant with Ultra Fluent, spray with Satchur8, finish the season with Carbon Cycle.

Carbon Cycle on our site  ·  Planet Earth Agronomy’s Carbon Cycle page  ·  Request a quote or ask about timing

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