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The Andersons’ launch of the customer portal was moved ahead of schedule to best serve customers during the spring season as well as through these unprecedented times.
With businesses around the world shutting their doors to prevent further spread of COVID-19, one industry that persists despite risk is agriculture.
In early April, Crystal Valley announced that it has acquired the conventional agronomy inputs business of Pipeline Foods, LLC, located in Hope, Minn,
The changes in everyday life forced by the COVID-19 pandemic have been vigorously debated as too much or too little, but it could take time to return to previous daily habits. John Phipps explains in John’s World.
“The changes happening today—with social distancing impacting our processes—people are becoming more efficient and go online more,” says Proagrica’s Carenza Harvey.
James Ferraro, vice president at Agrellus, reports that the second two weeks of March 2020 saw a 225% increase in farmer buying requests compared to the same period last year.
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With more than 25,000 farmer users, Bushel is powering a new way of business in light of the coronavirus.
“We’ve had about half of our orders in the month of March come in through the digital portal,” says Nutrien’s Mike Frank. “So we’re definitely seeing an uptick in digital ordering.”
Nutrien Ltd, North America’s biggest farm retail supplier, moved up shipments of crop supplies by two to four weeks
At his business, ForeFront Ag Solutions, Erich Eller is taking particular steps in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19 took a big bite out of commodity prices this week, but could that trend continue? Some analysts fear prices will get even worse before things start to turn around.
Today Bayer announced it will close its Creve Coeur, St. Louis site after learning an employee is under investigation for coronavirus infection.
Some retailer-farmer partnerships are getting the job done.
Shepherd has been developed by the team at Tycom, Inc. and has been part of the AgLaunch ag tech accelerator program.
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This partnership aims to provide new features on the Slingshot platform for ag retailers and enterprise farmers, which includes real-time fleet information such as work, idle and transit times.
Farmers connect, learn and share ideas in Chicago at the 2020 Top Producer Summit.
From major metropolitan areas to mom-and-pop chains, today’s grocery stories are a culinary wild west, says Christine Daugherty, vice president of sustainable agriculture and responsible sourcing at PepsiCo.
Outrage on social media seems to be growing. John Phipps says some of the recent outrage maybe be justified, but most is not, and can be deflated with a few minutes of information seeking.
As the March 15 deadline nears, row crop producers are faced with a big decision: ARC or PLC? Experts say the answer isn’t clear for corn and soybeans, but it is for wheat or anyone faced with 100% prevent plant.
Coronavirus continues to be a black swan hitting the markets, with both the stock market and commodity market getting hit hard on Monday. Analysts warn more downside risk could be ahead.
It’s either going to be a boom fourth quarter for U.S. farmers, or that extra $12.5 billion in American agriculture purchases promised by China for this year isn’t happening.
At its 2020 Cooperative Leadership Conference, Growmark awarded its top financially performing members and retail divisions.
A Canadian federal investigation was launched after a complaint filed by startup Farmers Business Network (FBN) alleges it was unfairly treated by Bayer, BASF, Corteva and other large agribusinesses.
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Iain Lennon at Proagrica says it’s a misconception of ag retail management to think they can’t get their individual agronomists and entire sales team to use data.
Grain storage can be a tool, but storing too long can be a major fault in grain marketing. University of Minnesota economist talks about the biggest grain marketing mistakes he sees made by farmers.