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Seven new Bollgard II XtendFlex cotton variety candidates for the 2017 season will be tested in Monsanto's Deltapine New Product Evaluator (NPE) Program this year. Nearly 200 growers will be testing the varieties,

A record five national entries surpassed the 400-plus bushel per acre mark.

The biggest legal case affecting U.S. agriculture is perpetually a day away, or at least a steady stream of judicial cases makes it seem as if agriculture is forever forced into a never-ending courtroom high-wire act. W

On Friday, Deere & Company announced it would layoff approximately 125 employees at two factories in Iowa indefinitely.

Monsanto Company has threatened to pull out of India if the government imposed a big cut in royalties that local firms pay for its genetically modified cotton seeds.

Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. has received approval for Venerate XC bioinsecticide to be used in California. Venerate XC is a liquid microbial-based, contact and ingestion insecticide that degrades insect exoskeletons a

After a lengthy review, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reevaluated data supporting use of sulfoxaflor and has renewed its registration with specific conditions. Examples of sulfoxaflor products include Dow‚

LidoChem Inc., parent company of Performance Nutrition, a developer and supplier of crop protection products, fertilizer additives and soil amendments for agriculture, was awarded triple damages—totaling $44.5 mil

Gamaya is a company that deals in gathering and analyzing hyperspectral images. These images are jam-packed with up to ten times the amount of information as their multispectral counterparts.

A new lawsuit, Anderson et al. v. McCarthy et al, has been brought against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in federal court by a number of commercial beekeepers, growers and environmental activist groups

Cressleaf groundsel is on the rise in fields across Ohio due to a mild winter that's allowed many weeds to get an aggressive start this growing season, said a weed scientist in the College of Food, Agricultural, a

HydroBio, Inc., announced that it has been awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a targeted irrigation management system. This patent includes a method for estimating crop water use from satellite

Wheat crop prospects in Kansas, the top U.S. producer of the grain, are well above average as crop-saving rains last month should more than offset the impact of an earlier drought, scouts on an annual tour said on Thurs

The chief executive of K+S on Thursday said the German potash and salt miner's salt business was a strategic business pillar and affirmed the group's 2020 operating profit target.

Japanese beetle adults are emerging throughout Indiana, seemingly spurred on overnight by the much needed rains last week. These adults are the result of eggs that were laid by female beetles last summer.

In November 2016, USDA forecast that for a third year in a row, U.S. farmers' net farm income is going to decline. To put that forecast into perspective, we asked four ASFMRA farm managers for their thoughts about

Click here for the Ag Pro podcast <p></p> Jean Payne, Bloomington, Illinois President of Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association (IFCA), and MAGIE Show A: "There's a downturn in equipment sales no matter

I am struggling. This national divisiveness and cloud of uncertainty are stressing me out. I wear a Fitbit and notice an appreciable change in my heart rate when I read the paper, watch the news or even check out what f

The Agricultural Retailers Association is asking members and other ag retailers to reach out to members of their state's Congressional delegation to thank those that have voted YES on HR 897 last week, and request their

high calcium oxide (CaO) product is being introduced by the Brazilian Aguia Resources Limited fertilizer company. The company contends its CaO is of such high quality that fewer tons of this ag lime are needed per acre

Randy Hertz has been named chief executive officer (CEO) of Hertz Farm Management, Inc., effective December 1, 2016. Randy joined Hertz in 1978 to work alongside his father, Carl Hertz, who started the company in 1946.

Twenty-five years ago, waterhemp was virtually unknown to Illinois farmers. Today, the broadleaf weed blankets corn and soybean fields across the state and the Midwest, causing yield losses from 40 to 70 percent.

Midwestern crop growers now have better access to high-value, high-calcium agricultural lime for managing soil pH as a result of an agreement between GLC Minerals, Green Bay, WI, and the GYPSOIL Division of Beneficial R

It isn't always the temperature that gives the air that nip. The "feels like" temperature is usually influenced by the wind as well. We call this the wind chill.

By Chris Carter, Communications Coordinator at Southern States At the end of every NFL game, win or lose, one thing is for certain: the coach is going to analyze the game film. What did we do well? What (or who) perform

Maryland farmer Chip Bowling, who is also NCGA chairman and USFMRA vice chairman, agrees with a new survey that finds the main reason farmers have increased their use of genetically modified (GM) crops is sustainability

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) released its annual report detailing the adoption of biotech crops, "20th Anniversary of the Global Commercialization of Biotech C

General Mills plans to more than double the organic acreage from which it sources ingredients. The company now expects to meet its goal of 250,000 acres by 2019.

Germany plans to back an EU proposal that would allow the continued use of glyphosate in herbicides, according to a letter from the agriculture ministry.

The Oriental fruit fly outbreak last year in Miami-Dade County, Fla., caused at least $4.1 million in direct crop damages, but the damage could have been far worse, according to University of Florida Institute of Food a

There has been a huge increase in natural gas finds in the U.S. with the volume of natural gas being discovered in conjunction with new petroleum drilling, the U.S. has gone from a net importer of compressed natural gas

Bixafen is first of several new fungicide active ingredients in company's robust product development pipeline.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently issued its final rule for electronic logging devices (ELDs). An ELD synchronizes with a vehicle engine to automatically record

Both the "Financial Guidelines for Agriculture" and the "Management Accounting Guidelines for Agriculture" have received updates in their contents and are now available for online purchase and do

Five American farmers and their fertilizer retail partners have been named as 4R Grower Advocates for 2016 by the Fertilizer Institute (TFI). The winners represent growers and retailers across the nation, dedicated to i

Finding out what's happening with Illinois farmland values and "putting all the pieces together" will be the focus of discussion at the 2016 Illinois Land Values Conference which will be held here on M

Large portion of 2016 crop expected to be stored on-farm USDA released its latest quarterly Grain Stocks report, which saw significant shifts in old crop wheat and grain sorghum and smaller movements for corn and soybea

The first quarter of the year was a busy one for Farmland Partners Inc., a Denver-based agricultural real estate investment company, and it ended with the company announcing an agreement with Metropolitan Life Insurance

Farmers Edge has partnered with Grower Information Services Cooperative (GiSC). With a shared stance on data privacy, security concerns and sustainable agriculture goals, the partnership between GiSC and Farmers Edge pr

It appears we will see a series of weak weather systems the next two weeks.

Of all the invasive plants in Florida's waterways, hydrilla costs the most to contain -- $66 million over a seven-year period -- according to Lyn Gettys, a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural

U.S. soybean farmers will reap the possibility of low costs and bigger shipments when the new set of locks slide open in late June on the deepened Panama Canal, according to Mike Steenhoek, executive director of the Soy

This study, funded by the United Soybean Board (USB), was conducted to understand the potential for cover crops to perform in a corn and soybean rotation, and to collect data on the performance of cover crops in those r

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta announced the public release of the B4UFLY mobile application following an initial beta testing period.

The EPA has announced that, as of Oct. 1, 2016, it will focus on two new enforcement initiatives (and expand one existing initiative) during the next three years.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the results of a national assessment showing that nutrient pollution is widespread in the nation's lakes, with 4 in 10 lakes suffering from too much nitrogen a