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Starting this fall, FBN’s Norm will surface daily, farm-specific insights, and by spring it aims to act on them, with Google supplying the AI models.
Corteva will pay $35 million to 12 states and accept 10 years of limits on distributor rebates that the FTC says kept cheaper generic pesticides away from farmers. The case against Syngenta continues.
Companies that take the wrong approach in developing an effective tool are likely to flunk on the farm. Here’s what they’re missing.
Starting small on less productive acres gave Whalen Farms room to learn — and eventually cut fertilizer costs across 2,000 acres.
The Evansville facility will be Wisconsin’s first large-scale soybean crush plant — processing 80 million bushels annually and lifting CHS’s total crush capacity by more than two-thirds when it opens in 2028.
The joint venture could “cut roughly in half” finished imports of phosphate fertilizers.
Red crown rot is now active in at least eight Midwest states. The significance of the disease is building. The Crop Protection Network estimates 7.7 million bushels of soybeans were lost in 2025 versus 121,000 bushels in 2024.
Yield champions Randy Dowdy and David Hula saw hybrid performance differ significantly this season in the same fields under the same management practices. Their evaluation process went beyond yield and can help corn growers working on their seed decisions for 2027.