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In its second quarter financial release, CHS is attributing a year-over-year loss to poor weather conditions and continued global trade tensions.
The Andersons’ launch of the customer portal was moved ahead of schedule to best serve customers during the spring season as well as through these unprecedented times.
With businesses around the world shutting their doors to prevent further spread of COVID-19, one industry that persists despite risk is agriculture.
In early April, Crystal Valley announced that it has acquired the conventional agronomy inputs business of Pipeline Foods, LLC, located in Hope, Minn,
Five farming operations in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Nebraska highlight irrigation adjustments that target dollar per drop in order to tap profit.
The changes in everyday life forced by the COVID-19 pandemic have been vigorously debated as too much or too little, but it could take time to return to previous daily habits. John Phipps explains in John’s World.
“The changes happening today—with social distancing impacting our processes—people are becoming more efficient and go online more,” says Proagrica’s Carenza Harvey.
James Ferraro, vice president at Agrellus, reports that the second two weeks of March 2020 saw a 225% increase in farmer buying requests compared to the same period last year.
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Farmers Ranchers Cooperative and Central Valley Ag (CVA) will officially unite into one cooperative June 1, 2020.
With more than 25,000 farmer users, Bushel is powering a new way of business in light of the coronavirus.
As a result of the company’s “Innovation with Speed and Discipline” product development process, AMVAC introduces 10 new products this year.
“We’ve had about half of our orders in the month of March come in through the digital portal,” says Nutrien’s Mike Frank. “So we’re definitely seeing an uptick in digital ordering.”
BASF’s LibertyLink GT27 soybeans finally have a herbicide partner approved. Alite 27 herbicide received EPA registration and can be used in select counties.
40% say they have more than 61% of their seed yet to deliver. Only 16% reported they have less than 20% in their warehouse still.
Nutrien Ltd, North America’s biggest farm retail supplier, moved up shipments of crop supplies by two to four weeks
Here are four reasons why more ag input business will be done online long after we recover from COVID-19
At his business, ForeFront Ag Solutions, Erich Eller is taking particular steps in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Matt Foley brings more than two decades of experience in the seed industry to FBN, and he previously worked at Dow AgroSciences and AgReliant Genetics.
Let’s face it, trying to forecast the future just became much, much harder. Yet, taking the long view at agriculture can provide some guidance.
“If I was on the retail side, I wouldn’t wait regarding supply, particularly for key products. I believe the logistics of those could be impacted later in the season...” says UPL’s Brian Cardin.
There are a common set of practices we can all take, but the most important first step is what I’ve called the Turnaround Mindset.
COVID-19 took a big bite out of commodity prices this week, but could that trend continue? Some analysts fear prices will get even worse before things start to turn around.
Busted grain bins still sit outside of White Cloud, Kansas; the rotting grain is a reminder of how devastating the flood of 2019 is for farmers and residents. Now farmers doubt all their acres will be planted in 2020.
Farmers have access to a free digital tool that helps pinpoint field-level profitability with minimal effort.
Today Bayer announced it will close its Creve Coeur, St. Louis site after learning an employee is under investigation for coronavirus infection.
With a goal of improving preparing to service customers in the Midwest (specifically for corn and soybeans) Trace Genomics has purchased soil processing assets and opened a soil testing lab in Ames Iowa.
Some retailer-farmer partnerships are getting the job done.
Shepherd has been developed by the team at Tycom, Inc. and has been part of the AgLaunch ag tech accelerator program.
Pivot Bio Proven is the first product of its kind to be marketed in the U.S.