Hit The Pause Button: CHS And Growmark Discontinue Synergy Exploration

Looking through the number of seed samples farmers have submitted to Ken Ferrie, he notes that 37% fall below what he would call good quality levels, and 11% fall into the poor category. 

The agency will provide reimbursement for testing at an approved National Animal Health Laboratory Network laboratory.  

There's an immense amount of pressure riding on this year’s crop production picture, and with a margin squeeze setting in across farms, economists think it could accelerate consolidation in the row-crop industry. 

“If we step back and look at what that means for farmland, we're taking our energy production system from highly centralized production facilities and we have to distribute it,” says David Muth.

Mancozeb is a highly effective fungicide used to prevent plant diseases across a range of crops.

Research underway at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is showing promise by targeting western corn rootworm genes with RNAi technology.