Crop Protection
For the sixth year, Farm Journal has conducted a survey to gauge farmer use of online crop input purchasing tools. Here’s what we found.
“If we don’t engage well digitally, we’re just another white pickup,” says K.C. Graner, CFS senior vice president.
Samuel Taylor, senior analyst for farm inputs at Rabobank, shares what to watch for the fertilizer, seed and crop protection price outlook.
Effective Jan. 1, 2024, Jeff Rowe will be CEO of Syngenta Group.
FMC’s At-Plant product platform provides a way for growers to get the most out of every acre.
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‘Biological’ products contain beneficial, naturally occurring microorganisms or microbial derivatives as active ingredients, and are used by farmers to enhance the efficiency of other inputs such as fertilizer.
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The company says these new products balance crop production needs with environmental stewardship to increase yields responsibly and efficiently.
Corteva introduces three herbicides and one biological to be added to its lineup of crop protection products.
With two recent announcements the EPA has approved labels for over-the-top dicamba applications (XtendiMax, Engenia and Tavium herbicides) in 2023 in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota.
To date, the percent of farmers who buy any portion of their farm inputs online has grown until last year when it dipped by one percentage point.
“The line where the precision ag starts and the tractor stops is extremely gray. It used to be bolting on precision ag hardware, and now it’s part of what the tractor does,” says marketing manager Ryan Jardon.
For model year 2022, John Deere is introducing new 400 series, 600 series and Hagie STS sprayers. “We have a complete offering for all sprayer customers,” Joel Basinger says.
Jeff Pybus is farming’s invisible grim reaper, slaying rats in the dark as he shoots and films for an addicting, no-frills YouTube channel.
“Although it’s a mature industry—it’s a progressive one,” says Andrew Moore, CEO of the National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA).
Supply chain issues and concerns about sourcing inputs for the 2022 growing season prompted more farmers to try e-commerce for pricing inputs this year as FBN says their website saw an uptick in traffic and sales.
Three requests for information were published by the Federal Register. The requests outlined information about competition in regard to producers’ access to fertilizer, seed and ag inputs, as well as food retail.
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Seth Meyer, USDA chief economist, hints crop insurance price guarantee for 2022 may hit $5.80 in corn and $14.11 for soybeans.
The supply chain constraints are continuing to plague agriculture. As farmers work to make input decisions for the 2022 season, economists expect high input prices to persist through spring.
“We’re going to do it differently. We’re going to choose active ingredients we haven’t used before. We’re going to do different kinds of production activities,” says Allan Gray at Purdue University.
From nitrogen to glyphosate, prices are posting 100% to 300% increases right now. Some farmers say they can’t even get retailers to price product until the inputs actually arrive at the retail facilities.
Crop protection and numerous other ag products are in tight supply and prices are trending higher. What does that mean for farmers? Keep an eye on this page for continuing coverage from the Farm Journal team.
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After a disastrous dicamba year in 2016, which saw hundreds of thousands of acres of U.S. farmland affected by off-target movement, 2017 was touted as a year of labels and precision application. However, early reports
Early this week Syngenta announced that it and Adama Agricultural Solutions Ltd have entered an agreement with Nufarm to sell a portfolio of crop protection products for $490 million.