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The variability in plant maturities and environments have crop scouts busy looking for diseases in 2019. Layer on the current farm economics, and the fungicide market in 2019 is complex.
AgPro columnist Steve Cubbage believes this year’s tribulations will spur an accelerated focus on precision services that focus on profitability and economic decision-making rather than be so focused on yield alone.
“I’ve seen T-L pivots in just about every situation—but seeing one with the White House in the background, well that’s pretty much it, isn’t it,” said Dave Thom, president of T-L Irrigation Co.
“Our investment in Farmobile substantially expands our technology platform and integrates automated data collection seamlessly within our IntelliFarms SureTrack platform,” said Tim Close, CEO of AGI.
Federal data shows more women are operating farms in Idaho, but officials say they have always been there.
While the partnership was first deployed in Brazil this year, it will be launched in the U.S. for the 2020 crop year.
For applications on Enlist corn, Assure II can be applied in V2-V6 growth stage.
The company says the new biologicals provide a unique combination of two bacilli strains to control diseases such as Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) in soybeans as well as Fusarium, Rhizoctonia and Phytophthora.
“We created this study to better understand how different fertilizer sources can be combined to deliver more value to the farmer,” says Dr. Ross Bender, agronomist with The Mosaic Company.
Five years ago, NACHURS launched its potassium acetate line with the Bio-k brand. Tommy Roach says the optimum timing for potassium uptake is between V4 and right before tassel.
“In these tighter times, retailers know they need to make the best recommendations for their growers; they have to feel confident that the products will give the results the farmer wants.”
Eric Tedford with Syngenta says it will be a challenging year for soybean disease, noting high counts for Pythium and Phytophthora, and university Extension agents have already confirmed Frogeye Leaf Spot.
Calcium Products’ pelletized gypsum, SO4, can be applied after planting and provides flexibility in terms of application timing since it can be spread through corn growth stage V7 and beyond (if necessary).
Since announcing it in July 2018 and closing on the acquisition of Arysta LifeScience in February 2019, UPL has created a new brand for the unified company—OpenAg.
“For us, the biggest benefit will be getting an early look at these emerging products. For the startup, we are able to give them real-world testing and farmer feedback.”
Helena Agri-Enterprises is working with farmers to meet the nutritional needs of their crop in alternative ways.
Precision agriculture suffers from its own crumbling infrastructure.
Kahler is the first automation software company to offer such a bundling.
Governor’s May Revision proposes $5.7 million in new funding to support the transition to safer, more sustainable alternatives
The company has a fleet of more than 100 drones and airplanes, and its sensors can capture clean usable images at 35 mph with a drone or 100 mph with a plane.
Zone Economics, from Conservis, provides cost-based farm activity analysis down to the square yard.
According to West Central Distribution, only one in six farmers uses a phosphorus efficiency product, but 83% of farmers are concerned about phosphorus unavailability in their soils.
Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Prospera has developed data analytics and computer vision technology that can be applied to every pass the irrigation pivot makes
This joins together Yara’s digital farming capabilities, agronomic know-how and team of more than 800 agronomists with IBM’s Watson Studio, IBM PAIRS technology, The Weather Company and more.
“I’d caution anyone from skipping a seed treatment this season—it could be a costly decision to forego treating soybeans.”
CFS is one of the first companies to benefit from implementation of the ADAPT (Agricultural Data Application Programming Toolkit) framework.
While some are in the field applying pre-plant fertilizer, others are waiting for hours or even days for supplies to meet demand.
“It used to be that once corn was knee-high, our options ran out. But today we have the equipment and tools to feed our corn later in the season and have increased our options.”
“Climate FieldView is another tool in Pinnacle’s robust toolbox,” Rob Marchbank, Chief Executive Officer of Pinnacle said in a news release.
West Central developed starter fertilizer Paralign, helping increase nutrient uptake, and adjuvant Last Chance, which has shown to increase efficacy of herbicides.