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Midwestern crop growers now have better access to high-value, high-calcium agricultural lime for managing soil pH as a result of an agreement between GLC Minerals, Green Bay, WI, and the GYPSOIL Division of Beneficial R

It isn't always the temperature that gives the air that nip. The "feels like" temperature is usually influenced by the wind as well. We call this the wind chill.

By Chris Carter, Communications Coordinator at Southern States At the end of every NFL game, win or lose, one thing is for certain: the coach is going to analyze the game film. What did we do well? What (or who) perform

Maryland farmer Chip Bowling, who is also NCGA chairman and USFMRA vice chairman, agrees with a new survey that finds the main reason farmers have increased their use of genetically modified (GM) crops is sustainability

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) released its annual report detailing the adoption of biotech crops, "20th Anniversary of the Global Commercialization of Biotech 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

General Mills plans to more than double the organic acreage from which it sources ingredients. The company now expects to meet its goal of 250,000 acres by 2019.

Genetically engineered (GE) seeds are widely used in U.S. field crop production. Herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops were developed to survive the application of certain herbicides that previously would have destroyed the cro

Germany plans to back an EU proposal that would allow the continued use of glyphosate in herbicides, according to a letter from the agriculture ministry.

The Oriental fruit fly outbreak last year in Miami-Dade County, Fla., caused at least $4.1 million in direct crop damages, but the damage could have been far worse, according to University of Florida Institute of Food a

There has been a huge increase in natural gas finds in the U.S. with the volume of natural gas being discovered in conjunction with new petroleum drilling, the U.S. has gone from a net importer of compressed natural gas

Bixafen is first of several new fungicide active ingredients in company's robust product development pipeline.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently issued its final rule for electronic logging devices (ELDs). An ELD synchronizes with a vehicle engine to automatically record

Robert Hochmuth remembers about 30 years ago when researchers with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Suwanee Valley Agricultural Extension Center showed watermelon growers how to use

Measure, a leading operator of drones, released the Drone Flight Calculator to help farmers assess the value of using drones in their agriculture operations.

Both the "Financial Guidelines for Agriculture" and the "Management Accounting Guidelines for Agriculture" have received updates in their contents and are now available for online purchase and do

Five American farmers and their fertilizer retail partners have been named as 4R Grower Advocates for 2016 by the Fertilizer Institute (TFI). The winners represent growers and retailers across the nation, dedicated to i

Finding out what's happening with Illinois farmland values and "putting all the pieces together" will be the focus of discussion at the 2016 Illinois Land Values Conference which will be held here on M

FBN Inputs announced it has a farm inputs procurement service in place, that it claims, provides significantly lower input prices to Farmers Business Network members, starting with ag chemicals as the first input availa

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

Large portion of 2016 crop expected to be stored on-farm USDA released its latest quarterly Grain Stocks report, which saw significant shifts in old crop wheat and grain sorghum and smaller movements for corn and soybea

The first quarter of the year was a busy one for Farmland Partners Inc., a Denver-based agricultural real estate investment company, and it ended with the company announcing an agreement with Metropolitan Life Insurance

Farmers Edge has partnered with Grower Information Services Cooperative (GiSC). With a shared stance on data privacy, security concerns and sustainable agriculture goals, the partnership between GiSC and Farmers Edge pr

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

It appears we will see a series of weak weather systems the next two weeks.

Of all the invasive plants in Florida's waterways, hydrilla costs the most to contain -- $66 million over a seven-year period -- according to Lyn Gettys, a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural

U.S. soybean farmers will reap the possibility of low costs and bigger shipments when the new set of locks slide open in late June on the deepened Panama Canal, according to Mike Steenhoek, executive director of the Soy

This study, funded by the United Soybean Board (USB), was conducted to understand the potential for cover crops to perform in a corn and soybean rotation, and to collect data on the performance of cover crops in those r

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

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta announced the public release of the B4UFLY mobile application following an initial beta testing period.

The EPA has announced that, as of Oct. 1, 2016, it will focus on two new enforcement initiatives (and expand one existing initiative) during the next three years.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the results of a national assessment showing that nutrient pollution is widespread in the nation's lakes, with 4 in 10 lakes suffering from too much nitrogen a

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a preliminary pollinator risk assessment for the neonicotinoid insecticide, imidacloprid, which shows a threat to some pollinators. EPA's assessment, prepar

In a first-of-its-kind ruling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Pacific Ethanol's registration of its Stockton ethanol plant to generate valuable credits by producing cellulosic ethanol

The QuickTox for QuickScan has been improved to exceed the new 2016 performance criteria from USDA/GIPSA, according to EnviroLogix.

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

DowDuPont, the entity to be created by the merger of DuPont with Dow Chemical Co, said the chief executives of the two companies would get a combined $80 million in "golden parachute" payments after DowDuPont splits int

DuPont (NYSE: DD) and The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) confirmed today that the European Commission (EC) has initiated a Phase II review for the proposed merger of equals transaction of the two companies

According to authors Scott and Ken Blanchard, an overinflated ego creates a distorted sense of importance, which decreases leadership effectiveness. And checking your ego at the door isn't just an exercise in nice

DJI, a maker of unmanned aerial vehicles, Friday released "Feeding the World," a video about the company's partnership with Kansas State University to use drone technologies in precision agriculture, p

Getting a good stand of corn, with vigorous early-season growth, is the first step in getting good yields. When adverse conditions, such as a hard rain or unusually cool weather, occur after planting and emergence, prod

More than 600 attendees at annual Global AgInvesting (GAI) flagship conference held in New York were privy to news from event participants Finistere, International Farming Corporation (IFC), AgFunder, Omnivore Partners

Dekalb brand is introducing an advanced new lineup - using predictive analytics and state of the art technology like genome wide selection - called Dekalb Disease Shield. These products will be available for

Record yields across the U.S. and favorable conditions around the world this harvest season have brought the lowest price of wheat in nearly a decade, with wheat futures down, causing a dilemma for elevator operators as

Farmers now have fresh data to help them get the best return on their N investments. Results from the 2015 Answer Plot Program by WinField show a positive yield response to split-season and late-season N applications, m

Farmers in Illinois and much of the Midwestern Corn Belt are facing significant challenges stemming from nutrients that are being lost from their farm fields. These lost nutrients, especially from nitrogen fertilizer, a

The Analytics Society of The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) and Syngenta named Xiaocheng Li, Huaiyang Zhong, and associate professors David Lobell and Stefano Ermon, a team from Stan

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