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BASF is now one of the four largest agricultural companies in the world and its planning to introduce more than 30 new products in the next decade.
W2 Fuel, a southeast Iowa biodiesel plant, has shut down in response to the unclear future for the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). The Crawfordsville, Iowa plant produced 10 million gallons of biodiesel annually.
This week, Mosaic announced it will decrease production in its Louisiana operations facility by about 500,000 tons in 2019.
In a clear sign of confidence in the emerging industry, Syngenta is boosting its investment and offers in agricultural technology. This week the company announced it acquired all relevant assets of Cropio Group.
Germany will ban the use of glyphosate herbicides at the end of 2023. The country is making the decision as part of an environmental protection program the government cabinet agreed to this week, according to Dow Jones.
Amid today’s challenges, retailers are investing in their businesses and realizing their important role in the marketplace, particularly in regard to the seed business.
On Monday, DowDuPont announced it will name its agricultural company Corteva Agriscience. This is one of three companies to be formed as a result of the merger. The spin-off will be completed by June 1, 2019.
Corteva Agriscience, formerly Dow and DuPont companies, will go to market through five regional companies, down from 10 before the merger. The five retiring companies will be combined into the five remaining brands.
New gene editing tools could dramatically change how new seeds are developed and what traits can be brought to market, but Monsanto’s head of research says the industry must do a better job of explaining the tools.
Competitors come together in agreement today—Monsanto will license the Corn Rootworm III and MON89034 (Bt) traits to Corteva Agriscience, the ag division of DowDuPont.
Earlier today the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly approved Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto—pending the companies’ sale of assets to secure antitrust approval, according to Wall Street Journal.
As of Thursday, June 7, 2018, Monsanto stocks are no longer available on the NYSE, Monsanto shareholders are getting fat checks and Bayer is among the largest global seed and ag chemical companies.
The Wild West has come to ag retail. The scramble for ag retail dollars has kicked up a dusty haze as traditional chemical players scrap gravel with an expanding list of online start-up companies.
The historic corn rally continued to show its head this week. A bullish breakout technically proved the market may not have been in highs just yet.
As Pro Farmer Crop Scouts made their way through Illinois it was a sorry sight. The state that normally boasts bin-busting crops is falling short—and by a substantial margin.
The typically lush, productive area of southern Minnesota looks like it will be a far cry from record
Iowa again reigns “King Corn.” After falling behind Illinois in 2018, the Cyclone State’s corn yields prove dominant over all previous 2019 Pro Farmer Crop Tour state estimates.
As the sun rises and heat soars into the upper 90s today, Pro Farmer Crop Tour scouts endure, finding better-than-expected yields in Nebraska.
POET officials say the process to idle the plant will take several weeks, after which the plant will cease processing of over 30 million bushels of corn annually.
Pro Farmer Crop Tour scouts south of the Platte River in Nebraska are seeing more filled pods and corn in the dough- and dent-stages.
Corn and soybean stands are never perfect—even in a near-perfect year. This year, especially, highlights the need for random sampling when scouts are creating yield estimates.
It’s clear farmers in southeastern South Dakota fought all spring to get crops in.
Company executives recently explained Bayer will change the way it markets products to farmers in an attempt to better share risk.
When Spoor turned 16 he worked for local farmers who ”taught me a lot,” he says. “And when I started at Mizzou [in 2016] I cash rented 6 acres from a friend.”
Too much rain has been a common refrain for farmers this summer. Still, corn needs moisture late-season to fill ears with big, golden kernels, says Olan Moore, owner of High Plains Consulting near Springlake, Texas.
By taking digital farming data all the way back to seed development, we’re working to unlock the potential for a higher efficiency cropping system in corn.
The report, which is the first of the season to include silking and blooming data, shows just how far behind the corn and soybean crops continue to be.
The historic corn rally continued to show its head this week. A bullish breakout technically proved the market may not have been in highs just yet.
Crop conditions are so variable this year, analysts say we won’t have an accurate grasp of the impact on both yield and abandonment until later this summer.
Founder of Channel Bio Corp, which later sold to Monsanto, Funk is re-launching the NC+ brand for western corn, soybean and grain sorghum growers.