The past five years have been transformational for AMVAC, says Scott Hendrix, Senior Vice President, U.S. and Canada Crop Sales and Application Technology.
Yuma, Ariz., based Gowan Group has announced its acquisition of Isagro—an Italian product development company with a focus in crop protection and biopesticides.
For model year 2022, John Deere is introducing new 400 series, 600 series and Hagie STS sprayers. “We have a complete offering for all sprayer customers,” Joel Basinger says.
“The line where the precision ag starts and the tractor stops is extremely gray. It used to be bolting on precision ag hardware, and now it’s part of what the tractor does,” says marketing manager Ryan Jardon.
After 45 years in the industry and 18 years with Brandt as COO and general manager of the ag retail and wholesale businesses, Tim McArdle is retiring in 2021.
Sam Taylor and Stephen Nicholson, both RaboResearch analysts, say while many would call these emerging technologies ‘disruptive,’ they prefer to think of them as evolutionary elements to agriculture.
Empyros corn herbicides are built on tolpyralate and combined with industry-standard herbicides, s-metolachlor and atrazine, to create exclusive two- and three-way pre-mixes.
Containing the active ingredient Natamycin, CeraMax empowers the genetic potential of soybean seeds to increase early-season vigor for a stronger, more uniform emergence and maximum yield potential according to research.
Gregg Sauder, founder of 360 Yield Center, says the system uses 40% less water then a center pivot and costs half as much as a drip tape irrigation system.
Farmers are still leaning into the services provided by their trusted advisors. A majority of farmers (69%) turn to a crop consultant or agronomist when making the final decision on crop inputs.
Meristem has been building out its vision for a new way to supply crop inputs, specifically yield enhancement crop additives. Mitch Eviston, CEO and co-founder recently appeared on The Scoop podcast.
Marjin Dekkers, former CEO of Bayer Ag and CEO of Thermo Fisher Scientific, joins AgBiome as the company chairman, effective Jan. 1, 2021. AgBiome develops products from microbes that target pest control.
How is your business going to remain relevant in the coming five, 10 or 15 years? That’s the primary question studied in 2020 in a partnership between Aimpoint Research and The Scoop.
Meristem's Crop Performance product line becomes a key component of Ag To Go’s offering and Ag To Go becomes Meristem’s ally in helping farmers all along the Atlantic Seaboard from Maine to Florida.
Helena introduced Antares Complete, a soybean herbicide pre-mix with optimized ratio of sulfentrazone, s-metolachlor and metribuzin, and simultaneously wanted to signal its investment in proprietary products.
“What kept me up at night was any disruption to our primary distribution hub in northwestern Illinois,” says Rod Wells, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Growmark.
Brett Bruggeman joins The Scoop podcast to talk about the company’s performance warranty, financing programs, decision ag tools, and supply chain initiatives.
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.
Research done by Solinftec showed that U.S. ag retailers’ machines were idle 30% of the time and traveling 35% of the time. That left only 35% of the time for the machine to be operating—and generating revenue.
“Nufarm continues to add more and more seed-applied solutions that elevate agronomic performance and add operational efficiency for both upstream and downstream customers” said Ken Barham.
BASF is strengthening its cotton portfolio from seed to harvest with the introduction of two new seed treatment packages, Core and Prime seed treatments.
As it looks to define a new category in agriculture—precision scouting—Taranis is take the step of moving its global headquarters to the company’s No. 1 market—the U.S.
After joining Certis USA in February 2020, O’Shea became CEO in July. Here she shares insights on the biologicals market growth, and why now is a great time for retailers to engage.
AMVAC has acquired Agrinos, a privately-owned group of companies focusing on biological crop inputs, as well as received EPA approval for biological fungicide product.
Bayer Crop Science launched the second year for the Bayer PLUS Rewards grower program – a comprehensive portfolio of high-performance seed and crop protection products.
Adrian Percy shares the company’s vision for how to advance crop protection and sustainability efforts and details on the newly opened Open Ag Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
The nearly 100,000 square-foot hub for research and development and headquarter operations for North America is custom-designed to enhance collaboration and innovation.
Panther MTZ is the latest in Nufarm’s portfolio of herbicides formulated to help growers gain weed management efficacy, resistance management and lasting residual control that improves flexibility come spring.
One of the biggest barriers to introducing new pesticides—which includes herbicides, insecticides and fungicides—is regulatory review and its uncertain timing and expense.
Corteva conducted research trials using the pre-commercial SIMPAS equipment in 2020. The expected commercialization path for SIMPAS includes Trimble dealers to have the system available in 2021.
