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Meet “Annie.” This robot being used by Corteva Agriscience is the result of a partnership with Boston Dynamics and Trimble.

Since its inception in 2016, Inari has made significant progress in delivering scientific breakthroughs through its SEEDesign platform.

Pizazz is a dry seed coating technology designed to deliver shine and improved flow to treated seed with minimal fugitive dust when handling and applying the product.

ABM specializes in seed treatment with bionutrition products. Agrauxine by Lesaffre has been developing biosourced solutions for plant nutrition and health for more than 15 years.

Nutrien leadership shares five areas for growth in its retail business.

As part of a transition to the next generation, Carson Ward takes over the helm of Gayland Ward Seed, opens a new headquarters in Amarillo, Texas, and launches a new logo as GW Seed.  

Seed treatments help protect the developing seed during its most vulnerable time – at planting and germination.

"We are excited about the partnership with WinField United which is an important milestone in commercializing CeraMax in the U.S.,” says Jan Stechmann, Vice President of Marketing and Sales.

Planting a crop isn't just dropping seed in the ground and hoping for record results. In order to "Win the Furrow," it starts with uniform germination and emergence.

"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to enhance our soybean expertise, and to be able to share that with our growers."

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.

The team at Nufarm says the 2021 crop season is offering plenty of reasons to bank on the ROI potential of Trunemco.

Responsible for Syngenta’s North American seed business, Justin Wolfe says he’s learned are to never stop learning and do business with those who value the integrity of a handshake—or today, an elbow bump.

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.

“This is a brand-new insecticide, Broflanilide—it’s not just a reformulation of the same chemistries,” says Ruhiyyih Dyrdahl-Young with BASF.

Plan for a normal crop, hope for the biggest crop of your career and then mitigate the risk of a drought or crop failure.

Brett Bruggeman joins The Scoop podcast to talk about the company’s performance warranty, financing programs, decision ag tools, and supply chain initiatives.

“Every aspect of SCN works against you,” says Dair McDuffee, a seed treatment specialist with Valent. “Once you have it, take the bull by the horns.”

With a new strategic partnership, Frenchman Valley Farmers Cooperative (FVC) is launching a line of crop inputs with VantagePoint.

“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.

What went right in 2020? And what are farmers looking to do different in the coming crop year? The 2020 Farm Journal Harvest Study shed light on those two questions with its top takeaways.

Here are recommendations for first-year corn and continuous corn.

Understand your buying opportunities, risks.

Based on a metabolite from its Trichoderma line of products, AmpliMax is a biorational seed treatment with SabrEx metabolite, yeast extract and humates providing outstanding and consistent results in the field.

Under the new relationship, the Meristem Crop Performance product line becomes a key component of Axis Seed Direct’s new crop input offering and Axis Seed Direct becomes Meristem’s ally.

In his role as Lead Agronomist, Swenson will head up agronomy services for the organization and their customers

BASF is introducing Poncho XC and Relenya seed treatments are now commercially available through local retailers for use in the 2021 winter wheat growing season.

Without in-person meetings, or with far fewer of them, you might be concerned about getting the CEUs you need this year to keep your certifications up to date.

“One-size fits all is not the way to go with cover crops,” says Brandon Van Middendorp with LaCrosse Seed.

Q&A with Justin Wolfe, Syngenta Regional Director North America Seeds

Startup EarthSense says in 2019 its 40 robots collected more than 10 Terrabytes of data, and the company will more than double that number of units this year to close to 100 robots.

The kit is currently available as an aftermarket option, and for a 70’ boom, it includes tubes for all 28 outlets, spaced at 30” off-center. 

“It is an honor to join the AgReliant Genetics team as president and CEO and work alongside more than 800 essential agriculture employees to help farmers grow,” said Paul Nselel.

What considerations weigh heaviest for farmers when buying seed? Three growers offer perspective from Illinois, Indiana and Mississippi.

For 2021, WinField United announced its cotton seed business will move to the regional Armor brand and no longer be sold under the CROPLAN brand.

“This step further strengthens Corteva Agriscience’s commitment to the cotton market – and positions the Company well to diversify and grow this business globally over time," said Steve Reno.

Syngenta plans to open a new R&D Innovation and Customer Experience Center in Malta, Ill. The site is 90 acres and will have facilities for large-scale events.

I don’t see anything that we could share with a farmer at a farm show that would help them gain economic security. We need to have conversations that give them confidence..." says Chris Haag.

This year, SeedFieldCheck will be piloted in Iowa to help seed companies communicate the location and presence of seed field workers to pesticide applicators

The Forage First Families First program is collecting stories of farmers who are facing hardships and aiming to connect those dairy and beef farms with donations of La Crosse forage seed for next spring.

Here are some videos of seed dealers getting the necessary task done by hand with speed and control being admired by many. 

In 2020, Meristem offers seed treatments, plant growth regulators, drift control agents, water conditioners and surfactants, nitrogen stabilizers, micronutrients, foliar nutrients and diesel exhaust fluid.

As part of this brand introduction, the Mycogen brand will be phased out after the 2020 growing season. Additionally, Corteva is retiring the Terral Seeds and REV brands.

On May 1, ag retailers joined Clinton Griffiths on Farm Journals’ live daily webcast to discuss how the planting season of 2020 is progressing, particularly in light of doing business amid COVID-19.

The SeedFieldCheck registry allows pesticide applicators to identify in near real-time where seed field workers are active or plan to be active in the next 24 hours.

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.

Crop Tech - January 2020