Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, will sell its soybean products by seed count per unit, rather than by weight, beginning in the fall of 2012 for varieties sold throughout North America for the 2013 planting season. [...]
Viterra Inc. (“Viterra”) (TSX:VT) (ASX:VTA) today launched myViterra mobile, a new app for Canadian and U.S. grower customers. Designed to enhance convenience, the business application will provide immediate access to Viterra commodity pricing for North America. [...]
Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, now offers a replant calculator to help corn growers faced with that difficult decision. The tool helps producers decide whether to keep their current stand or replant where their crops have [...]
Growers have two powerful new tools to prevent and control a broad spectrum of crop diseases. BASF has announced the full U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registration of Priaxor™ fungicide and Merivon® fungicide. Priaxor is expected [...]
Growers now have a powerful insecticide with three-way protection against aphids, stinkbugs and other key pests. FMC Corporation announces Triple CrownTM insecticide – a unique insecticide with three modes-of-action, providing soybean, corn and cotton growers quick [...]
In a previous post, we reviewed the four-year trend for the cost to produce corn; that can be found here. An allocation of the cost to produce soybeans from over 600 farms in each of the [...]
AgraQuest, Inc. announced that the EPA has recently approved seed treatment uses of the microbial active ingredients in Serenade and Sonata fungicides, both already widely used by growers as effective foliar or soil fungicides. Extensive field [...]
