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Infrastructure Woes To Watch: Potholes Plague Global Ag Trade
Infrastructure Woes To Watch: Potholes Plague Global Ag Trade

Shipping may have been easier back in the days of Columbus

Farmers Express Optimism In Purdue's Latest Ag Economy Barometer
Farmers Express Optimism In Purdue's Latest Ag Economy Barometer

Purdue's Ag Economy Barometer Index is up for March - something Jim Mintert says is a result of increased farmer optimism for the future.

Are You Disposing Pesticides Properly? Here’s How to Know
Are You Disposing Pesticides Properly? Here’s How to Know

Consider these tips to ensure you’re complying with federal regulations when it comes to pesticide disposal.

Iowa State Releases 2024 Custom Farming Rate Data
Iowa State Releases 2024 Custom Farming Rate Data

In the study, Iowa farmers, custom operators and farm managers shared their average pricing for common agricultural services such as tillage, spraying and fertilizer application.

Will The Collapse Of The Baltimore Key Bridge Impact Agriculture?
Will The Collapse Of The Baltimore Key Bridge Impact Agriculture?

Mike Steenhoek, executive director at the Soy Transportation Coalition, shares what the collapse could mean for the supply chain.

New Technology To Increase Carbon And Sunlight Capture In Corn
New Technology To Increase Carbon And Sunlight Capture In Corn

According to the company, the use of PhotoSeed technology has the potential to lower a crop’s carbon intensity score.

Break Down The Barriers In The Biological Space
Break Down The Barriers In The Biological Space

The NewLeaf Symbiotics team says reluctance to try biologicals is often a result of feeling overwhelmed by the options available, making education key as the space continues to grow.

Bayer Says “Not Now” For Division Split Or Sell Off
Bayer Says “Not Now” For Division Split Or Sell Off

“We are a high-impact, mission-driven, life-science company with three strong businesses, but we have four challenges that urgently must be addressed,” said Bill Anderson.

Wildfire Battles Continue Over Weekend for Texas, Oklahoma
Wildfire Battles Continue Over Weekend for Texas, Oklahoma

After burning for more than six days, the Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma was only 15% contained Sunday morning. Drifting sand now poses a threat to rural roads.

Inside AMVAC's Strategy To Widen Precision Agriculture Adoption
Inside AMVAC's Strategy To Widen Precision Agriculture Adoption

Rick Rice, AMVAC director of application technology, says grant programs aren't meant to forever subsidize a particular practice, but instead act as a catalyst for new participants to see its benefits.

DPH Biologicals Expands Research to Quantify Potential of Biologicals
DPH Biologicals Expands Research to Quantify Potential of Biologicals

The company’s BioAgonomics project will focus on the connection between agronomic practices in crop production and the value provided by biologicals.

5 Trends To Watch In The Input Market
5 Trends To Watch In The Input Market

Experts are watching global dynamics to understand the input market’s longer-term outlook in the U.S. Among their top concerns are geopolitics, weather and low supply.

New Purdue Report Says The Number Of Dust Explosions Is Unchanged
New Purdue Report Says The Number Of Dust Explosions Is Unchanged

There was a total of nine reported incidents in the U.S. last year – the same number as 2022. Those nine explosions led to 12 injuries with no fatalities.

FBN Names Diego Casanello As CEO
FBN Names Diego Casanello As CEO

As previously reported, FBN’s board had launched a search for the next CEO for the company.

Top Advice For Pest Management in 2024: Spray Earlier
Top Advice For Pest Management in 2024: Spray Earlier

“We’re living in a world where it’s just a matter of time,” Harlan Asmus says referencing the development of resistance.

Bayer’s New Business Model: Magnitude of Change
Bayer’s New Business Model: Magnitude of Change

Dynamic Shared Ownership reduces the layers and brings the business management closer to the customer.

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Nurse Tank Safety Advisory Issued

The new safety notice pertains to nurse tanks with manufacture dates between Jan. 1, 2007, and Dec. 31, 2011, by AWT at their plant in Fremont, Ohio.

How Today's Economy is Shaping the Business-Savvy Farmer
How Today's Economy is Shaping the Business-Savvy Farmer

Alan Hoskins, president of American Farm Mortgage, shares his expectations for the economy and how it changes the buying process.

BASF Announces EPA Approval of Surtain Herbicide
BASF Announces EPA Approval of Surtain Herbicide

The product is intended for use on corn acres and is the industry’s first solid-encapsulated herbicide technology.

Ag Industry Mourns Death of Bill Northey
Ag Industry Mourns Death of Bill Northey

On Monday, February 5 the news of Bill Northey’s passing quickly spread through the agriculture industry, of which he dedicated his professional life to serving.

Two Important Factors For Fertilizer Prices This Spring
Two Important Factors For Fertilizer Prices This Spring

ICIS senior fertilizer editor Mark Milam shares that while the fertilizer market appears to be in good shape at the moment, there are a couple of important trends moving forward this spring.

Bankruptcy Puts $370 Million Of California Farmland for Sale
Bankruptcy Puts $370 Million Of California Farmland for Sale

Prima Wawona, a stone fruit producer in Fresno, Calif., announced in October it filed for bankruptcy with more than $600 million in debt.

Climate and Tech Expected to Affect Ag Most This Year
Climate and Tech Expected to Affect Ag Most This Year

Steve Cubbage provides insights on the five areas expected to have the biggest impact on agriculture this year.

2024 Ag Economy: What's Causing Rural Bankers To Be Pessimistic
2024 Ag Economy: What's Causing Rural Bankers To Be Pessimistic

This month’s Rural Mainstreet Index marks the fifth-straight month where the index has been below the growth neutral mark.

Iowa Study: Soil Conservation Practices On The Rise
Iowa Study: Soil Conservation Practices On The Rise

The survey uses records from ag retailers to measure the use of cover crops, nutrient management and conservation tillage and no-till by Iowa growers.

Soil Carbon Enhancing Seed Flowability Agent Enters U.S. Market
Soil Carbon Enhancing Seed Flowability Agent Enters U.S. Market

In 2024, the company, which started in Australia in crops such as barley and canola, is offering its product for use on soybean acres in six states: MN, SD, ND, WI, NE and IA. 

Big Strides for Small Microbes
Big Strides for Small Microbes

“These microbes are naturally occurring. They are on every plant that you would ever see, on the salad you eat, on the grass that you grow, on the trees that you look at, and everything in between,” Smith says.

Helpful Tips For Using Adjuvants In Spray Drones
Helpful Tips For Using Adjuvants In Spray Drones

Johnnie Roberts, CPDA director of application – adjuvant chemistry, shares a solution to many of the common issues spray drone applicators face.

A Partner In Shared Success: Retailer Of The Year MKC
A Partner In Shared Success: Retailer Of The Year MKC

With an enterprise mindset, MKC walks with its farmer-customers.

Growmark and CHS Seek Collaboration
Growmark and CHS Seek Collaboration

What this means or could amount to is being left as fairly ambiguous.

Kansas-Based SurePoint Ag Systems Expands With New Facility
Kansas-Based SurePoint Ag Systems Expands With New Facility

The project will more than double the footprint of SurePoint's existing facility.

Ceres Solutions and Co-Alliance Merge to Form Keystone Cooperative
Ceres Solutions and Co-Alliance Merge to Form Keystone Cooperative

The merger will be effective March 1, 2024.

Truterra Opens 4 Programs, Highlighting Options for Long-Term Adopters
Truterra Opens 4 Programs, Highlighting Options for Long-Term Adopters

In two years, Truterra has paid farmers more than $9 million for more than 462,000 metric tons of carbon benefits.

Former Tyson CEO Becomes Indigo Ag’s Third Leader
Former Tyson CEO Becomes Indigo Ag’s Third Leader

Dean Banks will join Flagship Pioneering as CEO-Partner and CEO of Indigo Ag; most recently, Banks was the former President and CEO of Tyson Foods.

Is Foreign Farmland Ownership Putting The Future At Risk In The ‘Land Of The Free’?
Is Foreign Farmland Ownership Putting The Future At Risk In The ‘Land Of The Free’?

Steve Cubbage explores the true intentions behind foreign land ownership, and if it could be planting seeds of risk for our food security and national security.

Sukup Manufacturing Acquires Automation Distributor
Sukup Manufacturing Acquires Automation Distributor

Founded in 1962, Ramco Innovations has become a leading distributor of automation products across the Midwest. It has 65 employees, which will transition to the new entity. 

New Survey Shows Labor is Serious Challenge for Ag Industry
New Survey Shows Labor is Serious Challenge for Ag Industry

The availability of livestock workers was ranked as more limited than crop workers and finding long-term help seen as more difficult than temporary help due to the seasonal nature of the ag industry.

Utah CCA Named Certified Crop Advisor Conservationist of the Year
Utah CCA Named Certified Crop Advisor Conservationist of the Year

Through his work, Russell Taylor has focused on being an advocate for conservation practices in agriculture – partnering with several different organizations to change laws and draft language for the farm bill. 

New Legislation Would Require USDA to Study Fertilizer Industry
New Legislation Would Require USDA to Study Fertilizer Industry

The Fertilizer Research Act has been introduced by three senators to require USDA to study competition and trends in the fertilizer market.

8 Factors Shaping the Rural Economy in 2024
8 Factors Shaping the Rural Economy in 2024

CoBank has released their 2024 outlook report, which takes a look at the key themes the organization expects to shape agricultural and the rural economy in the coming year.

What's Top Of Mind For Ag Lenders Right Now
What's Top Of Mind For Ag Lenders Right Now

Looking at the farm economy as well as lending conditions, over 260 ag lenders ranked their top 12 concerns for what institutions and producers are facing.

Phosphate Fertilizer: There’s a Lot of Risk in The System
Phosphate Fertilizer: There’s a Lot of Risk in The System

“In this market, there's a lot of risk from the farm gates to the retail side. So more conversation goes along way this year,” Josh Linville says. 

5 Tips To Achieve The Best Fertilizer Spread Pattern
5 Tips To Achieve The Best Fertilizer Spread Pattern

The team at Heartland Ag Systems offers their advice for keeping fertilizer spreaders running in top shape.

New Study: Why Farmers Fall Into Two Camps If They Sell Or Store Grain
New Study: Why Farmers Fall Into Two Camps If They Sell Or Store Grain

Researchers found a significant relationship between capital costs and farmer-held inventory.

Five Tips For Reviewing SCN Soil Test Results
Five Tips For Reviewing SCN Soil Test Results

To help growers create an effective management plan for controlling soybean cyst nematode (SCN), the SCN Coalition shares five key steps to take.

Two Companies Launch Tool to Get Ahead of Corn Rootworm
Two Companies Launch Tool to Get Ahead of Corn Rootworm

The Prescriptive Pathogen Report uses predictive soil analysis to predict the field pressure and economic risk of corn rootworm in the upcoming growing season.

Seed Leader: Q&A with AgReliant's Brian Barker
Seed Leader: Q&A with AgReliant's Brian Barker

As a leading company in seed research and production, Brian Barker joined the AgReliant Genetics team as CEO and president mid-2023.

Harvest Update: Less than 5% of Corn Acres to Go
Harvest Update: Less than 5% of Corn Acres to Go

According to USDA’s final crop progress report of the season, 96% of corn has been harvested — a 3% increase from last week.

Avoid A Technology Setback With These Maintenance Tips
Avoid A Technology Setback With These Maintenance Tips

To avoid a major technology setback in the spring, Joshua Elhers, precision products coordinator at Heartland Ag Solutions, shares two precautions the ag industry can take now.

Harvest Update: The Home Stretch for Remaining Corn Acres
Harvest Update: The Home Stretch for Remaining Corn Acres

According to USDA’s crop progress report, 93% of corn has been harvested so far – an increase 5% from this time last week.