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Understand Your Customers To Underpin Your Value To Them

Focus on some of these 3 “watchouts” as you develop or review your value proposition.

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Opinion: Greenwashing Fails Everyone – Especially The Businesses Doing It

There’s clearly work to be done here. Collaboration, and trust, can absolutely drive the sustainability message forward.

Corn harvest gets underway.
SIMPAS Joins America’s Conservation Ag Movement

Trust In Food, a Farm Journal initiative, today announced that SIMPAS has joined America’s Conservation Ag Movement as its first Advocate Level Partner.

The Management Consulting and Learning Services team at FLM Harvest has been digging into this challenge and developed the following strategies to guide our clients and their sales teams through this turbulent time.
5 Strategies To Manage Sales During COVID-19

The Management Consulting and Learning Services team at FLM Harvest has been digging into this challenge and developed the following strategies to guide our clients and their sales teams through this turbulent time.

Is Farming Becoming a Lonely Occupation?
Is Farming Becoming a Lonely Occupation?

How can we make farmers’ social support systems stronger during this time of intense economic pressure?

Growers need increased access to informed professionals, such as ag retailers, who can provide the education, training and technical support services required.
Retailers Pivotal To Farmer Adoption Of Conservation Ag, Says Research

Some retailer-farmer partnerships are getting the job done.

Eggplant under field production.
Is Specialty Produce Headed For The Mid-Mississippi Delta?

Increased fruit and vegetable production in the region could be a boon to the economy.

This is a serious problem, but not a hopeless one. Here are three tips.
Agriculture’s Talent Pool Is Running Dry

This is a serious problem, but not a hopeless one. Here are three tips.

Future-Proof Your Organization
Future-Proof Your Organization

Here is a “starter kit” for anticipation. Just a few things to do, ways to think and habits to adopt. They will allow you to see developments before they arrive, avoid nasty surprises and seize opportunity.

What Every Farmland Rental Agreement Should Include
What Every Farmland Rental Agreement Should Include

Land owners and renters both have a role to play in the process.

Dicamba tolerant soybeans photographed in 2017.
IFCA Gives Dicamba Update

IFCA is hopeful they can effectively find ways to bring down the number of complaints to enable use of this herbicide technology in the future.

Illinois Extends Dicamba Application to July 15
Illinois Extends Dicamba Application to July 15

IFCA: "We urge farmers to be proactive and communicate with their neighbors regarding their intentions to apply dicamba."

With the 2019 spring season just beginning, seven ammonia releases have already occurred in the state of Illinois.
IFCA Emphasizes 6 Tips For Anhydrous Transport Safety

With the 2019 spring season just beginning, seven ammonia releases have already occurred in the state of Illinois.

Koch Experts Weigh In On Nitrogen Options In A Compressed Spring
Koch Experts Weigh In On Nitrogen Options In A Compressed Spring

Wet spring conditions can increase the risk for leaching, denitrification and volatilization losses of nitrogen.

5 Spring-Time Spreader Maintenance Tips for Retailers
5 Spring-Time Spreader Maintenance Tips for Retailers

Completing these five easy steps will not only make sure your spreader applies product accurately but will also help reduce in-season down time.

Bottom line – make sure you have a tank vent installed in any tank you use.
Poor Tank Ventilation Can Lead To Dramatic Destruction

Bottom line – make sure you have a tank vent installed in any tank you use.

Each year, one of the more than 13,000 CCAs is selected to receive this award based on his or her customer service, innovation, leadership skills, knowledge, and ability to exchange ideas and educate those in the agriculture community.
2019 International Certified Crop Adviser of the Year Named

Each year, one of the more than 13,000 CCAs is selected to receive this award.

Four Issues Affecting Ag Customers This Year

Four topics address what we believe are our clients’ biggest concerns for 2019.

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Four Issues Affecting Ag Customers This Year

Four topics address what we believe are our clients’ biggest concerns for 2019.

Fertilizer And Ag Retail Industries Are 'Serious About Safety'

Safety is a key priority for the fertilizer industry.

Fertilizer And Ag Retail Industries Are 'Serious About Safety'
Fertilizer And Ag Retail Industries Are 'Serious About Safety'

Safety is a key priority for the fertilizer industry.

Gene Editing: Building Better Blueprints, One Gene at a Time

New gene editing tools could dramatically change how new seeds are developed and what traits can be brought to market, but Monsanto's head of research says the industry must do a better job of explaining the tools.

How do gene editing techniques change the game for crop development?
Gene Editing: Building Better Blueprints, One Gene at a Time

New gene editing tools could dramatically change how new seeds are developed and what traits can be brought to market, but Monsanto's head of research says the industry must do a better job of explaining the tools.