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With more than 25,000 farmer users, Bushel is powering a new way of business in light of the coronavirus.
As a result of the company’s “Innovation with Speed and Discipline” product development process, AMVAC introduces 10 new products this year.
“We’ve had about half of our orders in the month of March come in through the digital portal,” says Nutrien’s Mike Frank. “So we’re definitely seeing an uptick in digital ordering.”
BASF’s LibertyLink GT27 soybeans finally have a herbicide partner approved. Alite 27 herbicide received EPA registration and can be used in select counties.
40% say they have more than 61% of their seed yet to deliver. Only 16% reported they have less than 20% in their warehouse still.
Nutrien Ltd, North America’s biggest farm retail supplier, moved up shipments of crop supplies by two to four weeks
Matt Foley brings more than two decades of experience in the seed industry to FBN, and he previously worked at Dow AgroSciences and AgReliant Genetics.
“If I was on the retail side, I wouldn’t wait regarding supply, particularly for key products. I believe the logistics of those could be impacted later in the season...” says UPL’s Brian Cardin.
Farmers have access to a free digital tool that helps pinpoint field-level profitability with minimal effort.
With a goal of improving preparing to service customers in the Midwest (specifically for corn and soybeans) Trace Genomics has purchased soil processing assets and opened a soil testing lab in Ames Iowa.
Pivot Bio Proven is the first product of its kind to be marketed in the U.S.
“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. “
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.
It is past time that food companies and the farmers who grow the food come together and truly define what sustainability really means.
With stakes in the fight against resistant weeds at an all-time high, Bayer is adding a new tool to farmers’ toolboxes in coming years. The company says it will introduce a new herbicide mode of action.
In 2018 IDA issued 233 warning letters and 14 notices of fines. In 2019, there have been 62 warning letters and 98 notices of fines. Fines are pretty evenly split between commercial and private applicators.
Chlorpyrifos can be used in a wide variety of crops including row crops, fruits, trees and vines. It’s restricted in some states and banned in others.
AgWorks, LLC and FieldReveal, LLC have announced a partnership to jointly deliver zone-based variable rate and decision support software to agricultural retailers throughout North America.
A Canadian federal investigation was launched after a complaint filed by startup Farmers Business Network (FBN) alleges it was unfairly treated by Bayer, BASF, Corteva and other large agribusinesses.
“It’s important to remember 2019 had excess rainfall and high humidity. So, it was a prime environment for a lot of diseases, and with the increase in disease, we have a lot of inoculum in the soil” says Randy Kool
The trial is at the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri Southeastern Division and centers on whether damage to a peach farm is from dicamba drift or natural causes including a spreading soil fungus.
The impact of neonicotinoids on pollinators is a prime focus for the additional risk mitigation when using these products.
As Bayer continues its mitigation to reach a settlement, Dow Jones is reporting the company could settle its glyphosate (Roundup) legal cases for a sum around $10 billion.
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.
The addition of Pathway will expand Plant Response’s multi-site operations to Plant City, Florida, Koch Biological Solutions R&D site in Hayward, California, and the R&D and commercial operations in Madrid, Spain.
“Everyone is suspicious if the house will always win. But I don’t want to be accused of lying about my yields. And I don’t want to be audited by the input company. How will I sleep at night?”