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Startups focusing on row crop innovations can now apply for a chance to pitch their idea before a national audience of leading farmers, retailers, farm advisors, and agronomists at Farm Journal’s 2019 AgTech Expo
“We are excited about the caliber and vision of these teams, and their capacity to totally transform the future of row crop agriculture,” said Schuyler Dalton, of AgLaunch.
FMC Ventures announced its first portfolio investment in Trace Genomics, Inc.
Teams spent five days in Tennessee refining their value proposition, meeting with leading farmers and agricultural industry experts, and improving their pitches for the Row Crop Challenge at AgTech Expo.
With continued uncertainty around trade, sizeable stocks, flooding in the Midwest and fertilizer costs, will corn and soybeans keep all of these projected acres?
Uncertainty on trade issues and the subsequent price movements associated with speculation on the topic added a degree of difficulty to acreage decisions this year.
Corn planted area for all purposes in 2019 is estimated at 92.8 million acres, while soybean planted area for 2019 is estimated at 84.6 million acres.
USDA released a slew of reports of Friday, initially sending markets lower.
President Trump said Monday that a trade “understanding” has been reached with Mexico.
This record number of prevent plant acres comes with not only financial challenges, but agronomic challenges as well.
Winter annual weeds will impact future plantings though. They act as alternate hosts for pests, impact soil temperature and can sequester moisture and nutrients from future crops.
Today a panel of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said it will not require vacatur for Enlist Duo herbicide. The herbicide, with 2,4-D choline and glyphosate, was challenged in court.
Bayer is committed to marketing Roundup. At the same time, the company plans to reduce the environmental impact of crop protection products globally by 30% by developing new technologies for farmers’ use.
By crop, here are the weeds scientists put in the bull’s-eye for seven grass crops.
Available to corn growers for the 2021 season, Katagon is classified as a Group 27 and Group 2 herbicide with a use rate of 2.3 to 3.4 fluid ounces per acre.
This balance of supply and demand was difficult, resulted in a learning curve, but also brought strong weed control results and strengthened farmers’ approaches to weed resistance.
For the past three years the team at Solinftec has been working on advancing its solar powered autonomy platform.
A recent publication from Extension experts at University of Illinois, Michigan State University, Purdue University and University of Wisconsin details how tar spot impacted corn hybrid yields in 2018.
From a text-based poll, 28% of farmers are increasing their fungicide use in soybeans in 2021.
The FAO reports 80 to 90% of the global wheat cultivars are susceptible to Ug99.
“Archive is a powerful pre-mix fungicide that will help growers combat the major storage pathogens that threaten their crop,” says Heather Ambuehl, post-harvest lead at Syngenta.
“We continue to expand our portfolio of products for integrated pest management, giving growers more tools to control diseases, improve plant health, and enhance grower return on investment,” said Pam Marrone.
This late season disease is nothing to hit the snooze button on. “This is a disease you have to pay attention to,” says Dr. Nathan Kleczewski, plant pathologist with Growmark.
In a partnership announced in mid-June, Helm Agro will provide marketing, distribution and technical support for Alltech Crop Science’s biological products.
With 4.3x growth from the 2021 growing season, Source is now being used on more than one million U.S. acres, three years after its initial launch
This technology has the potential to redefine the application timeframe as well as level of precision of crop input products.
A John Deere Model H tractor and Model 290 planter could plant 30 acres a day. And 70 years later, today’s 24-row planter can plant more than 45 acres per hour.
New products are unlocking even more potential in what can be delivered in the planting pass.
Getting the crop planted is just the start of the battle.
Through a collaboration with Ford Pro, Ford Motor Company’s commercial division, Wilbur-Ellis will initially integrate 10 of the new Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup trucks into its fleet in California.