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Amy O’Shea, a veteran of the agriculture, food and pharmaceutical industries joins Certis USA as President effective immediately and will assume the CEO role on July 1.

After three weeks of argument, a seven person jury in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is deliberating whether Monsanto and BASF are responsible for damages on a peach orchard in southeast Missouri.

The jury awarded Bader Farms $15 million in actual damages and tomorrow will decide an amount of punitive damages, too.

In the first case involving dicamba, a jury sided with the plaintiff and found Bayer and BASF responsible for $15 million in actual damages and $250 million in punitive damages.

“We are selling more MicroEssentials than MAP or DAP,” says Ross Bender with Mosaic. “It’s not a fad that this product has become our No. 1 product in the past 15 years. “

The Agriculture Innovation Agenda is a department-wide initiative to align resources, programs, and research to position American agriculture to better meet future global demands.

It’s either going to be a boom fourth quarter for U.S. farmers, or that extra $12.5 billion in American agriculture purchases promised by China for this year isn’t happening.

Joining the fight against these foes is FMC’s Authority Edge pre-plant, pre-emergent herbicide for use in soybeans, sunflowers and dry shelled peas.

If elected president, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) plans to immediately roll back all of the small refinery exemptions made to the Renewable Fuels Standard.

A behind-the-desk perspective on farm finances.