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Starting in 2024, AGCO will offer the Bosch BASF Smart Farming Smart Spraying technology on Fendt Rogator sprayers.
The acquisition is reported at $175 million and will close in the third quarter.
“The thrill of the hunt maybe is the word I’ll use, but it’s a process and I love it from start to finish,” says George Madison.
There are three things on the Watchlist this week
Within two days at the end of March, two grain companies said they will cease operations in Russia.
The next couple of weeks will be busy with ammonia application in Illinois. Here are a few reminders to keep in mind when working with ammonia
“This is a powerful app designed to strengthen service providers’ relationships with growers by housing essential information in a single source,” says Ernie Chappell, president of Ever.Ag Agribusiness.
The BiOWiSH Fertilizer Enhancement is specifically designed to optimize yield potential by improved nutrient uptake and to improve soil conditions for increased plant vigor.
“Over the next five years, ag retailers will need to get a handle on changing customer needs, lower expected industry working capital, and rising property casualty insurance costs,” Ken Zuckerberg writes.
The Fed hiked rates 25bps at last week’s FMOC meeting and indicated it will stay the course. So why are forward yields (1 year through 30 year still lower, suggesting Fed easing?)
Tim McArdle is working as the ResponsibleAg Industry Ambassador. He highlights how ResponsbileAg is an industry program for the industry that “lights the way for you to be in compliance.”
This year marks the cooperative’s 100th year in business. And as Steve Becraft describes, there’s more to celebrate than the centennial milestone.
“What we need to do to move carbon past the starting line is to show farmers the scoreboard and tell them exactly what they need to do to earn their points,” said Mitchell Hora.
“The planting priorities are number one,” says Dr. Lee Briese of Central Ag Consulting. Jamestown, ND
Green Creek Drone Company will be led by Tony Weber as general manager and will also be working closely with The Equity’s Agronomy Department providing custom application of fungicides in select areas in 2023.
On March 22, there will be the next Federal Interest Rate Decision; 75% probability of a quarter percentage point increase to a range of 4.75% to 5.00%
Albaugh previously acquired Corteva’s glyphosate business in Europe. With this latest acquisition, the company will expand its coverage of straight glyphosate DMA salt formulations and registrations globally.
The expansion project is expected to be completed by fall of 2023. Once complete, The Andersons will be better equipped to meet the needs of customers throughout the region.
There’s drama and comedy in politics says ARA’s Hunter Carpenter.
STB Chairman Martin Oberman hosted a press conference—the first of its kind that he said anyone could remember—to explain more behind the decision, which approves the first major merger in 25 years.
Tweaking three financial assumptions challenges most ag retailers to realize their income statements can go from showing a profit to only breaking even.
The writing may be on the wall for a transformation, but a pivot doesn’t have to be a 180° turn.
Realize 6, 7 or even 8 figures of savings without reducing your most valuable resource—your people.
Tyler Bottoms, Commercial Director at AgVision Software, says if he could solve one problem with a magic wand, it would be to reduce the ag retail industry’s technical debt.
Numerous measures were announced over the weekend in response to SVB which now appear to reduce the risk of financial contagion.
NAICC is hard at work for its members.
K&R conversations with more than 15,000 prospective candidates in 2022 validate how top leaders continue to look at career opportunities from a different lens.
As baby boomers retire, Gen Zers, who were born from 1996 to 2012, are replacing boomers in the labor force.
The ARA public policy committee convened the day before the Capitol Hill visits to confirm these top priorities for 2023
The $5 million donation from AGCO will construct a new 25,000 sq.-ft. state-of-the-art training center, which will house a new AGCO Agriculture Service Technician Associate in Applied Science (AAS) degree program.