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Clayton Cunningham, Seed Hub manager at Crops 63 for Ceres Solutions, shares the main driver in farmers picking their seed choices.
Known for the team’s incredible caliber of customer service and integrity, Marion Ag Service empowers its grower customers to thrive.
A rising tide of unique market circumstances may mask key business differentiators.
How it can turn around a company and accelerate innovation
Industry consultant Brad Oelmann, president at Farrell Growth Group, encourages ag retailers to stay true to their value propositions.
G-Mac’s AgTeam has 15 retail stores that will now be Simplot Grower Solutions locations.
For the past four years, John Brubaker has led software company Smartwyre to exclusively serve Ag retail, distribution and manufacturers. He says the simple goal is to connect businesses with the information they need.
The Scoop caught up with Hawkins during a recent Syngenta Media Summit. Here is a report from our conversation with him.
Violations included Amazon selling unregistered pesticides in California, failing to report and pay required mill assessment fees, and failing to hold a valid pesticide broker’s license.
This rate hike was the sixth increase this year, and based on Fed chairman Jerome Powell’s comments following the November meeting, this interest rate rocket ship will continue to gain altitude.
There is no disputing that e-commerce sales of groceries are expanding, but one supply chain consultant says retailers face several challenges as click-and-collect and home delivery sales expand.
The top three trends impacting ag retailers are: economic uncertainty, volatility and labor challenges says Ken Zuckerberg, CoBank agribusiness analyst.
Last year’s data showed a flat trend of the percent of farmers who buy any of their crop inputs online, but this year’s study (conducted in October) showed one of the biggest jumps yet.
You can do a handful of things to greatly improve your odds of “getting all you can out of all you’ve got.”
Providing complete visibility into every aspect of the sales process, GROWERS Rally allows ag retailers to manage orders, products and prices in real- time and in one location.
GROWERS is putting easy-to-use technology in the hands of every ag retailer, adviser and farmer.
“At Landus, we continue to expand our grain merchandising network to create more opportunities for our farmer-owners and to diversify our geographic portfolio,” said Matt Carstens.
The Andersons is expanding its Indiana footprint.
The companies say their pricing structures and practices were within the law.
Recent cases of embezzlement, fraud and Ponzi schemes occurring with grain buyers serve as reminders of why farmers should exercise due diligence when working with grain buyers.
The story of her father’s death in a grain bin emphasizes the need for safety around grain bins all year round.
Garry Ridge will provide the closing keynote at the 2020 Top Producer Summit, which takes place Jan. 27-30 in Chicago.
You have an opportunity to come back better and stronger than ever.
You can self-nominate or submit an application on behalf of someone else. This will be the third year for the program with credit to Nufarm as our sponsor.
As we exit the field season and move into the fall and winter months, now is the time to reflect on the value you bring to the table and think through where the past season’s hardships and impacted your standards.
The National Council of Farmer Cooperatives is sounding the alarm about restrictions on the movement of H-2A workers within Mexico in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The timeline on these actions are tight—while arguments are heard on January 7, that’s three days before the enforcement efforts by OSHA are scheduled to start
“I wouldn’t be surprised as we put Omicron behind us that we’re going to see a restaurant recovery in the summer. But right now the supermarket is still doing quite well on a historical basis,” says Michael Swanson.
Despite dynamic and challenging supply chains, there’s more than one silver lining
USDA released a slew of reports of Friday, initially sending markets lower.