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Federal lawmakers are looking into how U.S. Environmental Protection Agency staff may have influenced findings by the World Health Organization that glyphosate probably caused cancer, according to a letter sent to the E

The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA), a consumer-facing organization dedicated to leading the national conversation about how food is grown and raised, announced the launch of the U.S. Farming and Ranching Fou

Facing a freight recession caused by slumping commodity prices and industrial output, No. 1 U.S. railroad Union Pacific Corp said Thursday hopes of strong economic growth have so far been undermined by a key missing ing

When environmental conditions are hot and dry, spider mites multiply rapidly and can become a major pest of soybeans. Problems on soybean have been increasing over the past 10 years.

Two new AutoTrac products are available to help row crop producers and ag service providers more accurately navigate row-crop fields when making postemergence sprayer applications.

Billionaire Carl Icahn, a special adviser to Donald Trump and a skeptic of the U.S. ethanol mandate, said there are others on the president-elect's team who have even deeper criticisms of the program.

Trimble launched its Trimble PULSE suite, a comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end field service management solutions that enable businesses to deliver field service excellence across a range of industries, including con

The Iowa Soybean Association Research Program offers its top five articles from 2015.

Now is the time to scout for black cutworm in Ohio, thanks to the migratory pests that moved into the state from the South in April and are now starting to cause damage to some corn crops in the region, says an entomolo

There is no shortage of doom and gloom about grain price prospects at the present time. Prices have indeed fallen to quite low levels compared to the high prices that occurred over much of 2008-2013. For some, this is p

The Context Network, a global agribusiness consulting firm has announced founding Context Global Development (CGD), a new, non-profit organization to support program implementation needs of agricultural and social impac

The message to farmers, crop consultants, and other ag industry stakeholders during The Fertilizer Institute's (TFI) 4R Summit in Indianapolis last week is that successful nutrient management requires a systems approach

A group of Syngenta shareholders said it opposes any sale of the company to China's state-owned ChemChina and called for the ousting of the Swiss agrichemical group's leadership.

Gary McMurray, division head for food processing technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT), is hot on the trail of groundbreaking sensor technology to detect crop health issues before widespread physical s

After promoting the recruitment of military veterans and professionals into the agricultural industry for many years, AgCareers.com decided to take a look at the issue from a more critical standpoint. The "Veteran

Next year, family-owned Stine says it will give about 200 farmers in a pilot program the chance to replant genetically modified soybean seeds. The program is expanding after launching this year with about 50 farmers.

Tracking degree days is a useful tool to estimate when common stalk borer larvae begin moving into cornfields from their overwintering hosts. Foliar applications, if needed, are only effective when larvae are migrating

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the FY2017 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, totaling $32.03 billion. Among its highlights is a rider to stop the Environmental Protection Agenc

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are hot on the trail of a honey bee killer, and their detective work has taken them from hives in Tucson, Arizona, to those in Bismarck, North Dakota.

ARA continues to partner with Purdue University Center for Food and Agricultural Business to offer ag retailers and their staff opportunities such as the 10th Annual ARA Management Academy. The Academy, Feb. 2-4, 2016,

Nutrient management is an important component for maximizing net income from raising soybeans. Soybean yields and net income can be reduced when essential nutrients are not available at the time or in the quantities req

Repar Corporation, with headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, has developed Homobrassinolide 0.1%, a new generation plant growth promoter containing homobrassinolide, a natural substance with plant growth promoting a

A revolutionary approach on a national scale is bringing low-cost, high-quality on-demand imagery to U.S. farmers in 2016. The aerial program was developed and tested in 2015 by Mavrx, a global company in delivering on-

Louisiana rice farmers are ahead of the average planting schedule thanks to a relatively warm and dry spring. Rice farmers are anxious to have a good crop after three years of declining yields and low prices. "We

Kalo, Inc., announced the introduction of its new Legacy soybean inoculant, which features a low-viscosity extender that is 30 percent thinner than other extenders.

"Flag the Technology" helps farmers and pesticide applicators reduce errors and limit off-target herbicide drift, says University of Missouri Extension weed scientist Kevin Bradley. University of Arkansas C

Five national grain-based organizations have cautioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) not to make premature and ill-advised changes to its biotech regulations tha

As consultants who have worked intimately with hundreds of companies, we're amazed how often we've had to come back to basic questions because they were never adequately answered. There are a handful of thes

Hindsight is 20/20, as they say, and this is the time of year farmers tend to look back at the prior season and think about what they might have done differently - if they could have had a do-over.

The American farm boom is all but over. Farmland values are down from all-time highs. Global surpluses left corn and soybean prices below the cost of production. And the amount of agricultural debt relative to income ba

EU nations refused to back a limited extension of the herbicide glyphosate's use on Monday, threatening withdrawal of Monsanto's Roundup and other herbicides from shelves if no decision is reached by the end of the mont

EFC Systems, Inc., announces completion of integration between its FieldAlytics product and Agronomic Technology Corp's Adapt-N nitrogen recommendations and monitoring system.

Dale Cowan, of AGRIS and Wanstead Cooperatives, Ontario, Canada, was awarded International Certified Crop Adviser's (ICCA) Adviser of the Year Award.

For the past 25 months, Congress has been considering the role that biotechnology plays in agriculture and society and whether foods with genetically engineered ingredients should carry a mandatory special label.

The chief executive officer of Cargill Inc., the largest closely held U.S. company, has become the latest corporate leader to voice concerns about immigration and trade protectionism. In a speech and an opinion column,

Stink bugs are a nuisance pest that has been made worse on the East Coast this year thanks to a mild winter. Insect pressure is already being reported as heavy this year.

The Agricultural Retailers Association and The Fertilizer Institute continue to charge through the litigation process in their lawsuit against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's reinterpretation of the

The use of plant protection products (herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.) that are the basis of agricultural development is now being questioned. European and specifically French opinions about forcing biologica

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