It’s described as “an easy button.” Launched in January of 2019, Compass Minerals brought to market Rocket Seeds, a seed treatment product for crop nutrition.
“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?”
Wet weather brought a myriad of problems in 2019. Aside from planting and harvest delays, it helped spread diseases, many of which could show up again in 2020.
Already, dealers are receiving seed shipments, and before the crunch time when planters are heading to the field, USC is encouraging seed treatment operators to ensure their machinery and systems are set up for success.
Farmers looking for hemp seed have a new option with Arcadia Biosciences through their new product line, GoodHemp. The company announced this is its new commercial brand for hemp seeds, transplants, flower and extracts.
The Syngenta Seeds leader shares he sees yield gains coming on two fronts: the developments in the pipeline as well as fine-tuning agronomic management.
“We piloted outcome based pricing in 2019, and we will continue to pilot it in 2020,” Chad Bilby says. “In this we’ll continue to gain feedback on the value farmers see.”
BioConsortia, Inc., a California-based company that creates microbial solutions for plants, recently announced plans to register a new wheat seed treatment.
Meteorologist Cindy Clawson, with AgDay TV, is tracking a cold front in northern states riding in on the edge of a wetter forecast for southern states.
As you consider your seed options for 2021, you’re undoubtedly being inundated with offers from seed companies, including volume discounts, early cash discounts and financing options.
After a tumultuous 2019 season, all eyes are on seed companies to learn what to expect. The 2019 seed supply was weak for soybeans as a result of a challenging harvest in 2018, and farmers hope 2020 isn’t a repeat.
Corn is coming in wetter and with lower test weights than normal. For many farmers this might mean they don’t have the drying capacity to keep up with harvest—but does the local elevator?
“Seed buying programs are getting more complex,” says Conrad Smith. “And taking product performance out of consideration—I want to know what parts of these programs are influencing seed decisions.”
FFA members work with Mycogen territory managers and retailer partners to sell corn hybrids best fit for their geographies, which are delivered in specialty branded blue and gold seed bags.
Mother Nature wreaked havoc on Ohio and South Dakota corn and soybean fields this spring. Each state’s anticipated corn yield fell by more than 20 bu. per acre compared to last year.
USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) Thursday said it will defer accrual of interest for all agricultural producers’ spring 2019 crop year insurance premiums.
A group of agricultural associations are urging USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to ensure transparency in regulating gene-edited crops
When Spoor turned 16 he worked for local farmers who ”taught me a lot,” he says. “And when I started at Mizzou [in 2016] I cash rented 6 acres from a friend.”
Today German-headquartered seed and chemical giant Bayer announced it would not be selling the NemaStrike seed treatment for the 2020 season in the U.S.
Farmers who purchase Wyffels’ W5086RIB hybrids will help give back to those who served as the company will donate $2 for each unit purchased to Homes for Our Troops.
Corn earworm, known better to cotton farmers as cotton bollworm, can quickly decimate a cotton field. The pests’ repeat exposure to common Bt proteins leads to faster resistance and more problems.
Bt, Bacillus thuringensis, crops are used around the world in corn, cotton, soybean and eggplant. More than 20 nations have at least 2,471 acres of the genetically modified crops.
Everyone’s heard the old adage about corn: knee high by the Fourth of July. However, in a typical year, farmers can expect to be tasseling or near tassel by Independence Day—what’s changed?
It’s been a long, arduous planting season for farmers across the U.S. Many farmers are wondering what this will mean for yields, ending stocks and, consequentially, corn prices.
This past week USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed it discovered genetically engineered (GE) wheat in Washington state. It was found in an unplanted field and is resistant to glyphosate.
Farmers and retailers will have access to Syngenta’s newest fungicide seed treatment, Vayantis, for the 2020 season. It can be used in corn, soybeans, canola, oilseed rape and cereals.
Despite rain challenges, summer will eventually get here—heat and all. It can be stressful for farmers waiting for Mother Nature to allow them to plant crops, or to wait to see if what they planted will survive.
With more rain in the forecast and prevented plant dates looming or past for corn, farmers will likely see fewer corn acres than USDA predicted in its March prospective planting report.
As planting dates for many producers are pushed into May, the soil is warming and you might wonder if that gives you flexibility in corn planting populations.