Lockjaw, Dicamba, John Deere, and Ronald Reagan
Editors Paul Schrimpf and Eric Sfiligoj discuss Paul’s trip to Nashville, Monsanto vs. Arkansas, projected ag equipment sales, and the 2018 crop mix. The post Lockjaw, Dicamba, John Deere, and Ronald...
View ArticleLooking More Closely at the 4Rs of Nutrient Management
Spring is just around the corner, and farmers are already preparing for the upcoming growing season. Fertilizer is probably at the top of their minds — which kind, how much, how to apply, and when and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
There’s No Easy Button For Value in Variable-Rate Nutrition
At right, Roger DuMond of Kova Fertilizer shares experience, and a few laughs, with third-year intern Brandon Butz. “Sharing ideas with our younger employees is a joy, and we learn a lot this way,”...
View ArticleWhy Are Service Providers Slow to Adopt Crop Sensors for Nitrogen Management?
Recently, we have seen important discussions about key aspects of precision agriculture, writes Rodrigo Trevisan on PrecisionAg.com. One of these articles, about the value in variable rate nutrition,...
View ArticleADAMA Announces OMRI Listing for Mastercop Fungicide
ADAMA USA has received Organic Material Research Institute (OMRI) listing for Mastercop Bactericide/Fungicide¹, an innovative true solution of copper sulfate pentahydrate with BioRetain technology. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fertilizer Blenders Check All the Right Boxes
Our CropLife 100 dealers may be reporting a downturn in fertilizer sales these past few years, but that doesn’t seem to be impacting the sheer volume of materials they still need to mix and deliver,...
View ArticleDowDuPont Names New Ag Spinoff
DowDuPont has announced the corporate brand names that each of its divisions plans to assume once they are separated as independent companies as intended, including its agricultual spinoff. While...
View ArticleNitrogen Fertilizer Recommendations: How Can We Improve the Guesstimate Game?
Making nitrogen (N) fertilizer recommendations is often a guesstimating game, writes Dr. Tai McClellan Maaz, International Plant Nutrition Institute. In an ideal system, we could reliably predict the...
View ArticleCoalition Launches 4R Plus Nutrient and Conservation Stewardship Program for...
A group of agricultural and conservation stakeholders announced the launch of 4R Plus, a nutrient management and conservation program that equips Iowa farmers with the tools and resources to protect...
View ArticleGlobal Crop Protection Product Supply, Demand, and Use Trends — A Positive...
The year 2017 ended as it began; with talk of mergers. Although 2017 saw the completion of the “merger of equals” between Dow and DuPont and the effective completion of the acquisition of Syngenta by...
View ArticleCommoditAg Signs New Partner MKC
CommoditAg, a new online ordering and purchasing option for farmers, comprised of a powerhouse of innovative ag retailers, expanded its network to include a top retailer in Kansas. MKC has joined the...
View ArticleAgricultural Biologicals: The Shoes Are Beginning to Fit
Not too many years ago, I was invited to be a speaker at the annual meeting of the Biological Products Industry Alliance (BPIA). The main reason I was asked to talk at this event was that many in the...
View ArticleCorteva debuts, and takeaways from the road in Spain and Italy
Guest Editor Dan Jacobs of AgriBusiness Global Joins Paul Schrimpf to discuss the launch of Corteva, as well as Dan’s recent agribusiness trip through Spain and Italy. The post Corteva debuts, and...
View ArticleBiostimulants: Crop Input or Management Mindset?
At the end of November 2017, about 1,200 researchers, regulators, and business representatives gathered in Miami, Florida for the 3rd Biostimulants World Congress. The rapid growth of the event reveals...
View ArticleClik here to view.
John Deere ExactApply Retrofit Kits Available for Existing 4-Series Sprayers
Producers and ag service providers currently operating 2014-2018 model year John Deere 4-Series Sprayers can now gain greater accuracy and control of spray applications by installing ExactApply...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Adjuvants Rise to New Challenges
West Central’s Steve Wolfe, left, and an applicator discussing an application of XtendiMax and West Central’s Veracity Elite II. Both products were new for 2017, so education and field experience were...
View ArticleThe Future for Crop Protection Companies, Post-Mergers
For the past three years now or so, the agricultural marketplace has been pre-occupied with all the mega-mergers going on within the industry. As the Big Six has been whittling down to a Big Four/Five,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Biological Products Gaining Momentum for Ag Retailers
Flashback five years ago. Conventional crop inputs largely dominated the portfolios of many U.S. ag retailers, especially those based in the row crop states of the Midwest. They were often reluctant to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Biostimulants Gaining Ground
Consumers have stepped up their demand for food produced more sustainably, with fewer “hard” chemicals and more compounds from nature. Biostimulants are helping increasing numbers of growers answer...
View ArticleUPI Introduces New Herbicide Resistance Management Tool
UPI, a global leader in the production of high quality crop protection products, has announced the launch of new TRIPZIN ZC herbicide in the U.S. TRIPZIN ZC is a unique, patented pre-mix that combines...
View Article
