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“We had to make sure it worked for farmers first,” says Christophe Jospe, whose company is a marketplace for farmers to sell carbon credits. “If it doesn’t work for them, we weren’t going to succeed.”
“One-size fits all is not the way to go with cover crops,” says Brandon Van Middendorp with LaCrosse Seed.
A farmer was on vacation, but his account manager from NuWay-K&H Cooperative, saw something in the satellite images of his field that needed closer inspection.
This new formulation will be the product fulfilling upcoming orders of Instinct, and it boasts improved handling and a lower use rate.
Litigation continues against common pesticides—this time targeting two insecticides and one herbicide. At the heart of the bill, Udall and Neguse claim that EPA and the current pesticide laws do not keep citizens safe.
Net Irrigate will join Lindsay’s FieldNET brand of remote irrigation monitoring and control solutions.
New technology from BioConsortia could reduce reliance on synthetic chemical fertilizers.
Nutrien Ag Solutions PCAs and scouts will be actively monitoring insect traps throughout the Salinas Valley while FMC Arc farm intelligence will visualize that data as detailed maps on a proprietary mobile app.
Paul Revere said, one if by land, two if by sea, but now startup Rantizo has received swarm approval for up to three. That’s three drones for aerial applications of crop protection or seed products.
Tar Spot has been lurking in Midwest fields since 2015—and possibly even earlier by escaping detection. In five years, it has spread to eight states and decimated yield potential in its path.
In a recent Farm Journal Pulse, with 539 responses, 36% of farmers said they were done with dicamba applications for the season. With 64% of respondents saying they still have acres to spray.
On Friday, judges in California with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a petition to halt all use of Engenia, FeXapan and XtendiMax dicamba herbicides.
Ten additional herbicides, four additional insecticides and one additional fungicide from FMC have been approved by the EPA as tank-mix partners for Enlist Duo herbicide
“Petitioners’ motion to ‘Enforce this Court’s Vacatur and to Hold EPA in Contempt,’ is a thinly-veiled attempt to revive arguments the court already rejected or declined to reach. It should be denied.”
Plaintiffs in the case that lead to the products’ vacatur say EPA is wrong and that the courts should grant an emergency motion to enforce the vacatur and hold EPA in contempt for their actions.
The contractors work with farmers and their local ag retail and agronomy teams. The services are charged by the hour.
ARA President and CEO Daren Coppock and NCFC CEO Chuck Conner sent a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler asking for clarification and emphasizing that days matter as the application window is quickly closing.
“For soybean farmers who just planted or are finishing up planting of the dicamba-tolerant genetics, they were really caught off guard.” says Dave Spears, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at MKC.
Participating retailers included: Asmus Farm Supply, Harvest Land Co-op, Helena Agri-Enterprises, Nutrien Ag Solutions, and Simplot Grower Solutions.
Arc farm intelligence is the first mobile platform to use predictive modeling based on real-time data to place the right crop protection products precisely where and when they are needed.
These are highly soluble, carbon-based potassium fertilizers designed to drive bio-activation in soil or as a foliar-applied product.
“I get the question a lot if there are differences in adjuvants, and yes, there are,” says Dr. Bryan Young of Purdue University.
Here’s a roundup of technologies aiming to improve on the process of traditional stand counts by layering algorithms, artificial intelligence and remote sensing.
New Elevest insect control combines full rates of Rynaxypyr active, the industry standard for Lepidopteran control, with full rates of bifenthrin, the leading pyrethroid.
Aurora Cooperative, which has 40 agronomy locations in central Nebraska, has made two upgrades to two of its fertilizer facilities this spring.
Equipment manufacturers are being squeezed by plummeting demand and tightening access to cash, according to Kip Eideberg of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers.
On Thursday’s AgriTalk, John Raines shared how the timing of field work this spring coinciding with COVID-19’s spread has led to more farmers using more technology.
The selective distribution agreement is a model for the future adoption of Heliae’s approach– to provide nutrients to growing crops through accelerated microbial growth while improving the health and structure of soils
“The expansion enables Interline to be used on all glufosinate-resistant production systems, in addition to the LibertyLink systems,” says Tom Mudd, UPL Marketing Manager, Corn and Soybean Herbicides.
With this integration, CropZilla will have the entire suite of Razor Tracking’s platform available to customers to provide real-time vehicle and asset data in addition to their crop and fertilizer digital farm models.