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The agency will provide reimbursement for testing at an approved National Animal Health Laboratory Network laboratory.
“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.
USDA is now ordering all dairy cattle must be tested prior to interstate travel as a way to help stop the spread of HPAI H5N1. This comes a day after FDA confirmed virus genetic material was found in retail milk samples.
A New Jersey woman fighting for her life received an incredible gift from a pig last month at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The pork community is in the crosshairs right now for the animal rights extremist community. Here’s what you need to know.
Mental health support services are hard to find in rural areas. Did you know 90 million people live in designated Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas? To further complicate matters, stress among farmers is growing.
“When we can figure something out, come up with a solution, and then see it works with real yield data to show our decision made us money and we fixed an issue—that’s when it’s fun,” says Jeff Kloucek.
When soil is healthy, it produces more food and nutrition. It also stores more carbon, and the biodiversity is increased.
The vice president of strategy role is in charge of identifying and refining corporate strategy as well as cross-selling within the company.
The ARA Fly-In paves a path for productive, educational conversations between the ag retail industry and the decision-makers in Congress to occur far beyond the discussions that happened on Capitol Hill.
Kyle Meece, agronomy manager at United Prairie, talks about how he is working to be two to three years ahead of other retailers.
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To bring new ways to connect its agronomy insights with customers, Growmark and 29 of its member FS companies are launching the myFS Agronomy app in conjunction with Intelinair.
Paul Bonnett joined Nutrien Ag Solutions in 2019 as senior director of agronomic solutions. He leads the company’s agronomy and environmental sciences efforts across North America and also manages Waypoint Analytical.
In early April, the companies confirmed they have discontinued discussions of potential synergies and opportunities.
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“I have long believed growers need more effective and reliable environmentally sustainable crop protection alternatives and Invaio is well placed to deliver really groundbreaking novel solutions for growers,” said O’Shea
Now that the mystery illness impacting some dairy herds has been revealed as the same strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza that has been impacting the U.S. poultry flock, pork producers are asking questions.
Tom Snipes, former CEO of Plant Response, has been named the new leader of Custom Agronomics.
Kay Russo, DVM, Novonesis technical services manager for dairy and poultry, emphasized the situation is rapidly evolving and more clarity will come with time as researchers learn more.
The agreement took effect on April 1 and will make Acadian and Acadian Organic products available to retail customers throughout 14 U.S. states.
Ohio has become the sixth state where dairy cattle have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu.
This partnership is the largest retail agreement for Aqua-Yield in the continental United States and helps lend credibility to the company’s wide range of nanotechnology products.
With Steward Link’s background in federal, state and private funding opportunities and Taranis’ focus on technology, the companies share this partnership will help them better serve ag retailers and farmers.
Tymirium and Adepidyn are both fungicides, while Plinazolin is an insecticide and Syngenta’s fastest-growing technology to date.
The Idaho State Department of Agriculture announced that HPAI, known as highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, has been found in dairy cattle in Idaho.
The Texas Department of State Health Services reports that a human case of bird flu has been confirmed in Texas and identified in a person who had direct exposure to dairy cattle presumed to be infected with the disease.
The distribution agreement focuses on Vestaron’s Spear Lep insecticide, which is a peptide-based control method meant to provide growers with a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional chemicals.
Tim Hushon, sustainability and technology director at The Mill, details how sustainability factors into their ag retail business and how to partner with farmers on the technology adoption required.
Sumitomo Chemical and Valent BioSciences have announced Pace International will become part of AgroFresh Solutions.