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The jury awarded Bader Farms $15 million in actual damages and tomorrow will decide an amount of punitive damages, too.
In the first case involving dicamba, a jury sided with the plaintiff and found Bayer and BASF responsible for $15 million in actual damages and $250 million in punitive damages.
It is past time that food companies and the farmers who grow the food come together and truly define what sustainability really means.
With stakes in the fight against resistant weeds at an all-time high, Bayer is adding a new tool to farmers’ toolboxes in coming years. The company says it will introduce a new herbicide mode of action.
At its 2020 Cooperative Leadership Conference, Growmark awarded its top financially performing members and retail divisions.
In 2018 IDA issued 233 warning letters and 14 notices of fines. In 2019, there have been 62 warning letters and 98 notices of fines. Fines are pretty evenly split between commercial and private applicators.
Chlorpyrifos can be used in a wide variety of crops including row crops, fruits, trees and vines. It’s restricted in some states and banned in others.
AgWorks, LLC and FieldReveal, LLC have announced a partnership to jointly deliver zone-based variable rate and decision support software to agricultural retailers throughout North America.
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.
Former USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack won big in the Powerball Lottery.
Manage toward the possible not the probable.
Indigo Agriculture’s David Perry talks industry disruption, leadership and innovation.
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.
Guilette describes farmers as the “ultimate problem solvers and solution finders.”
“It’s important to remember 2019 had excess rainfall and high humidity. So, it was a prime environment for a lot of diseases, and with the increase in disease, we have a lot of inoculum in the soil” says Randy Kool
NCGA President Kevin Ross reflects on lessons learned a year after beer giant Anheuser-Busch Inbev maligned corn syrup in a Super Bowl ad.
The trial is at the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri Southeastern Division and centers on whether damage to a peach farm is from dicamba drift or natural causes including a spreading soil fungus.
The impact of neonicotinoids on pollinators is a prime focus for the additional risk mitigation when using these products.
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.
The five promotions represent leaders for the five customer-facing operating companies under Brandt, Inc., the new holding company umbrella.
As Bayer continues its mitigation to reach a settlement, Dow Jones is reporting the company could settle its glyphosate (Roundup) legal cases for a sum around $10 billion.
Landus Cooperative launched new app features that were developed by four of its summer iterns, which has now been recognized with a national award.
Joining the fight against these foes is FMC’s Authority Edge pre-plant, pre-emergent herbicide for use in soybeans, sunflowers and dry shelled peas.
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If elected president, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) plans to immediately roll back all of the small refinery exemptions made to the Renewable Fuels Standard.
Going forward, Simplot’s customer base is said to be more than 40,000 farmers and its footprint stretches across 240 locations with 4,400 employees and 500 crop advisors.
China didn’t immediately start buying U.S. agricultural good after the Phase One signing. Some analysts say it could take a couple months before significant buys from China are on the books.