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“It’s challenging for growers trying to build their herbicide programs right now,” says Wade Firestone, marketing manager with HELM Crop Solutions.
” ... so the bill that I’m going to sign today is going to say basically take your fake, lab-grown meat elsewhere. We’re not doing that in the state of Florida,” said Gov. Ron DeSantis.
In his 15-year career Travis Fuller says it’s been amazing to watch the technology develop for the ag retail industry.
“ARA is pleased to hear the announcement from the Biden Administration firmly establishing a role for agriculture in the future of sustainable fuels,” says Daren Coppock.
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.
Mancozeb is a highly effective fungicide used to prevent plant diseases across a range of crops.
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.
A lone juror stood between rancher George Kelly and innocent. “It is what it is, and it will be what it will be. Let me go home, okay?”
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.
Without careful planning and placement of these structures, farmers risk losing the option for aerial spraying.
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.
BioTek Ag, which was based in North Carolina and had been in business for more than 30 years, will become part of Custom Agronomics, a formulator and manufacturer of private-label products.
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.
Get crops off to a good start with these weed control tips
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.
Strategy can be more effective than cutting costs
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.
Gingko Bioworks announced its acquisition of platform assets from AgBioime, which includes over 115,000 fully sequenced and isolated strains, over 500 million unique gene sequences
In early April, the companies confirmed they have discontinued discussions of potential synergies and opportunities.
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There are six new and updated continuing education seminars designed to deliver targeted, applicable knowledge contributing to the overall advancement of ag appraisal practices.
“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.