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Solinftec’s new robot built to scan and monitor fields is being used by the team at Growmark in the 2022 season from planting through harvest.

The Ranch Rover is an autonomous ranch vehicle with the purpose of providing aid to the ranch operation in the form of feeding, livestock monitoring, and data collection.

Scientists expect corn hybrids containing the technology will help farmers regain the upper hand over a variety of above-ground and below-ground pests that current technology is struggling to contain.

The U.S. is the second or third top importer for each of the three major components of fertilizer. Top producers of the major components of fertilizer include China, Russia, Canada, Morocco and Belarus.

The new MeloCon LC formulation offers: > Lower use rate > Easier storage with improved shelf life > Application flexibility

Driverless solutions such as OMNiPOWER provide a solution to:  Labor constraints.  Short harvest windows.  Increased yields due to reallocation of resources. 

If you’re thinking about cutting starter fertilizer this year because of surging costs, Ken Ferrie has three words of advice: Don’t do it.

“The combination of rising fertilizer prices and the desire to impart more on-farm stewardship practices piqued my interest in this program,” said Kasey Bamberger, Partner, Bryant Agricultural Enterprise.

In the first quarter of 2022, Mosaic has a pair of announcements about its expanding biological product marketing and portfolio.

AMVAC and Azotic North America are collaborating to develop and commercialize nitrogen-fixation product Envita as an exciting addition to the expanding SIMPAS-applied Solutions portfolio.

In hot-box style, five diverse farm technologies—Salin 247, Susterre, Phinite, BovIQ, and Holganix—took center stage at Top Producer Summit in Nashville, Tenn., on Feb. 15.

Yield monitors on combines. Module-building cotton pickers. Automatic row shut off on planters. Now for sprayers, will selective smart spraying systems be the next must-have productivity enablers? 

On March 2, Bayer announced it had received EPA registrations on two crop science products. 

Combination herbicides usually include between two and four active ingredients and have become the industry norm, as companies work to help farmers stamp out tough weeds and grasses.

John Deere has captured the spotlight with pictures and descriptions of an autonomous tractor. Just like six years ago, Case debuted a concept model of an autonomous tractor, leaving farmers intrigued.

The new agreement means farmers will have "more choices and additional tools" for integrated weed management. In the process, Bayer remains committed to marketing its current crop systems and developing new technologies.

With nitrogen prices at near record highs, retailers are looking to help farmers make sure that every dollar of crop fertility goes to the crop’s success and that it’s not lost to the environment. 

In the readers’ choice online voting, our audience has named Syngenta’s Acuron GT herbicide as the 2021 New Product of the Year. 

“CPDA certifies adjuvant products to verify label integrity,” according to Terry Kippley, CPDA president.

“Last week—out of the blue—we found out the tariff codes for imported glyphosate acid were changed by Presidential proclamation as part of updating the HRS codes for 2022,” says Mike Massey with Ragan & Massey.

Glyphosate was already in short supply heading into the 2022 planting season, but another black swan event is putting an even tighter squeeze on supplies.

Pesticide and seed producer Bayer said on Monday a supplier of an ingredient for its widely used herbicide glyphosate has run into technical problems which may hamper Bayer's output of the product in the short term.

Machinery drives input efficiency

Far from formulaic, every grower’s approach to preplanting chemical application is contingent on specific circumstances, but a common thread remains: Hit the window or pay a price.

New products are unlocking even more potential in what can be delivered in the planting pass.

Latest adjuvant from WinField United designed to improve crop protection performance

“The use approval of these tools provide sunflower growers access to much needed new and effective solutions to address the wide pest spectrums and soilborne diseases they face,” said Eric Castner.

Could LED light be used to kill weed seed inside a combine during harvest? The technology has already arrived, according to an inventor raised in the corn and soybean rows of Ohio farmland.

Multiple products (which currently spans insecticides, fungicides, nematicides, and micronutrients) can be applied simultaneously.

The FBN-assigned machine is in addition to the four of the systems (installed on four brands of sprayers) in operation in the U.S. Midwest.

Dept. of Commerce issued a preliminary determination this week showing urea nitrate from Russia and Trinidad and Tobago is being sold into the U.S. at less than fair value. The ruling could open the door for tariffs.  

Nutrien Ltd, the world's biggest potash miner, could boost production by up to 29% in coming years, depending on any sanctions facing rival producers

The liquid formula provides greater convenience in storage, handling and tank-mixing and allows for application flexibility when fumigant and conventional chemistries cannot be applied.

Autonomy is poised to introduce new levels of productivity on the farm — and fun. 

“Archive is a powerful pre-mix fungicide that will help growers combat the major storage pathogens that threaten their crop,” says Heather Ambuehl, post-harvest lead at Syngenta.

AgroScout agro analytics platform, announced today that it acquired the assets of TerrAvion, a market leader in imagery data management for agriculture.

As Dr. Mike Canady, Director of Agronomy at Verdesian, explains, this is a unique product in the market with its combined components: 80/20 Talc and graphite blend, Micronutrients, and Biostimulants and metabolites

Evaluate cropping choices on physical, natural and human factors.

From boom priming and a nozzle control system to multiple camera functions, the six new sprayer products will be further field-tested this year.

Smashing a weed seed to death as it passes through a combine is a technological reality fast approaching U.S. farmland.

“Agriculture doesn’t have an innovation problem,” says Mississippi producer Chad Swindoll. “It has an implementation problem.” 

Steven Valencsin founded Growers in 2012 as a boutique consulting company, which has evolved to introduce Growers Rally, a sales enablement platform for ag retail.

Nutrien and The Fertilizer Institute share more details on fertilizer industry dynamics in light of reports citing how fertilizer prices are effecting on-farm economics.

The EPA says prior to Jan. 11, 2022, the agency “did not consistently assess the potential effects of conventional pesticides on listed species when registering new active ingredients.”

Delivering its biological payload via an easy-to-handle, single-liquid bladder, Lallemand’s LALFIX ProYield Liquid Soybean provides multi-action inoculation for soybeans.

Talc USA was founded on the belief in helping the American farmer increase revenue per acre by fortifying products with new technology and keeping its products 100% made in the USA.

At the Consumer Electronics Show Bobcat and its parent company Doosan are showcasing a future vision for pushing and lifting power on its line of compact track loaders.

Understand how and why you are paid for carbon.

Yiannis Ampatzidis, a UF/IFAS associate professor of ag and bioengineering at the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center developed a smart sprayer to help more efficiently apply pesticides and fertilizer

Josh Linville says “It's it's a good step for 2022 to start with. But it's just it's a solid first step is all it is.”