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In addition to the expanded distribution for the company, this agreement also included The Andersons venture capital arm, Maumee Ventures, investing in Phospholutions.
With its trio of products, Groundwork BioAg is solving for two problems at once.
SUL4R-PLUS is a slow release granular product providing sulfur, calcium and fulvic acid and is designed for use in soybeans, corn, small grains, alfalfa, forages, fruits or vegetables.
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Before most planters start running, the agronomic team at WinField United is sharing takeaways from its research programs.
Look for the sensitive areas in your fields now, advises Steve Pitstick, who farms 50 miles west of the Chicago suburbs. Be proactive and be informed, he adds, so making product use adjustments won’t be a huge lift this season.
In 2023, the U.S. imported nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizer products valued at more than $10 billion, and of that more than half came from Canada.
Todd Robran, Chief Commercial Officer at Growers Edge says fintech, such as Growers Edge tools, can be used to help retailers interact with their farmer customers.
“When applied with synthetic nitrogen, it is optimized by 50%, so in other words rates can be reduced–dramatically,” Darin Moon says. “It’s a monstrous claim. We aren’t throwing that number out lightly.”
AgVend continues to add to how its Nexus partner network adds to its portal features and functionality.
The introduction of N-Finity is an extension of Nutrien’s “purpose-built approach” to biologicals, and it brings three ways to improve nitrogen management in a single product and application.
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Biowish Technologies will be applying a further focus on its agricultural business after selling its environmental management business at the end of 2024.
The enzyme in Phosforce is already in the soil but available in limited supply, and application accelerates the biochemical reactions in the soil to tap an previous unused pool of soil phosphorus.
BioBoost and Hopper Throttle Maxstax Soybean will both be available in 2025.
“This strategic combination allows us to bring crop nutrition technologies to growers that wouldnʼt otherwise be available to them,” said Nick Bancroft, CEO of AgroLiquid.
Nutrien focuses its business on helping feed a growing global population “from the ground up.”
Rotor Technologies will begin shipping its autonomous application helicopters next year. Sprayhawk features a 110-gal. tank and can cover 240 acres per hour.
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“Day in and day out, InterLock has performed,” says Eric Spandl, Senior Manager of Product Development, WinField United.
Clips was introduced earlier this fall and is a flowable powder seed coating application system.
According to Syngenta, hundreds of growers provided very positive feedback during Storen’s first season on the market.
The Andersons is introducing Aero-Blitz and Aero-Mino, which have been designed for application at low-use rates.
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In 2020, Anuvia had built out its production at a former Mosaic site in Plant City, Fla., after ramping up its technology and business for five years.
The company says these new products balance crop production needs with environmental stewardship to increase yields responsibly and efficiently.
“If we cut 20 seconds on every fill, and we do 50 fill ups in a day— we save 25 minutes,” Cody Ray says. “That could be another 10 acres a day.”
Historic prices of fertilizer have farmers looking for alternative solutions in 2022. Here are four possibilities that one day may change the way agriculture thinks about N.
“What we’ve learned from the farmers we can’t measure– it’s the most important thing for us in designing this robot,” Ben Johnson says.