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The Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) presented the association’s awards at its annual meeting in September 2022.
This seed-applied solution helps crops, such as soybean, capture nitrogen from the atmosphere and significantly reduces the need for nitrogen fertilizers – supporting regenerative agriculture.
Albaugh’s expansion is part of the investments to substantially increase its global production of 2,4-D, but the expansion will also add infrastructure for increased production capacity across other product lines.
There’s a stick, a big stick, with potentially big consequences for those involved in the value chain—all the way down to the farm gate.
“This move signifies more than a change in location. It is a symbol of growth of our farmer-owned cooperative, the strength of agriculture in Indiana and the evolution of how we will do business,” says CEO Kevin Still.
Agricultural retailers and other ARA members were already feeling the impact of a potential strike as railroad carriers started to cancel shipments of critical fertilizer products.
Corteva Inc announced on Tuesday plans to exit about 35 countries and lay off roughly 5% of its global workforce as part of the company’s cost-cutting plans.
The Bilberry technology has been developed as a retrofit system for sprayers to provide both green-on-green and green-on-brown applications.
In the arrangement, which has been in negotiation since February, Ceres Solutions now holds 20% ownership in the United Prairie partnership.
“These locations are ideally situated to complement the existing Ceres Solutions presence across the trade area, and we see many potential synergies,” said Jeff Troike, CEO of Ceres Solutions.
The new 50,000-square-foot production facility will occupy 50 acres and is set to become operational in 2024.
On the heels of acquiring R&D-driven AGVNT, LLC., Summit Nutrients announces its portfolio of six categories of technology aiming to elevate fertilizer to new levels of nutrient use efficiency.
Opening on August 20, 2012, the Asmark Institute Agricenter has hosted hundreds of training events, and thousands of people have walked through the doors to learn, train, network, and collaborate.
Mike joined UPL in early 2022 as President and Chief Operating Officer of UPL’s Crop Protection business.
“Verification is no longer about binders full of documentation,” said Dane Braun, Vice President of Farm Strategy at Bushel.
Protivate is formulated with a proprietary blends of nutrients that can be applied directly to the seed for corn, soybean, cotton, wheat, canola, and alfalfa crops.
Widening the Funnel: Land O’Lakes Evolves Approach And, Removes Some Risk For Regenerative Practices
Land O’Lakes is aiming to straighten the path for more farmers to adopt more regenerative practices across their acres, and in doing so building a wider funnel of farmers who could enroll in carbon markets.
The final products for the US market will be produced at the company’s North America facility in Saint Joseph, MO using the existing large-scale capacities for both ester and amine formulations of 2,4-D.
Drexel Chemical Company announces the addition of Jeremy Corrigan as Upper Midwest Sales Representative and Cully Forsyth as Central Midwest Sales Representative.
With this, Yara will have curtailed an annual capacity equivalent of 3.1 million tonnes ammonia and 4.0 million tonnes finished products (1.8 million tonnes urea, 1.9 million tonnes nitrates and 0.3 million tonnes NPK.)
The app, powered by Bushel, puts harvest in growers’ hands with real-time scale tickets, contracts, market information and more
Established in 1932 as the KALO Inoculant Company in Quincy, Illinois, the firm developed a line of bacterial legume inoculants used by Midwest farmers to boost alfalfa and clover hay yields.
“We are thrilled to be selected as a Stoller go-to-market partner for their PGRs all across the American Midwest,” said Mitch Eviston, Founder and CEO of Meristem Crop Performance.
There are 10 different species of forage grasses, four species of turf grasses, and two species of legumes being evaluated.
GreenSolutions product team will be dedicated to their biological portfolio: biopesticides, biostimulants, and biofertilizers.
The company has seven commercially available products, which were used on more than 2 million acres of U.S. farmland in 2022.
Construction on the project within the Midland I-Park began in March of 2020 and took roughly 2 years to complete.
It will be a combination of cover crops, reduced nitrogen rates or split nitrogen applications as well as nutrient reduction wetlands, bioreactors, and saturated buffers Iowa farmers will use to meet their goals.
“Iowa continues to lead on soil health and water quality and grants like this one only help to accelerate our progress,” said Governor Kim Reynolds.
A bacterial species closely related to deadly citrus greening disease is rapidly evolving its ability to infect insect hosts, and possibly plants as well.