During 2019, UPL acquired Arysta Life Sciences. This created the fifth-largest chemical company in the world. It brings resources together from both companies to help farmers around the globe. As we wrap up 2019, we look back at what we have learned, and how to...
Herbicide resistance continues to cost producers money and yield.BASF, the world's largest chemical producer, recently created an initiative to defend acres in new ways and put an end to yield-robbers altogether.Operation Weed Eradication challenges growers to...
We are seeing technology coming at us from all directions in agriculture. There is tremendous room for growth of new companies, and a benefit to producers. But how do you make sense of everything that is out there? Growmark?s Ag Validity program is helping farmers to...
Challenges are nothing new in agriculture. Every year we face some of the same challenges we have faced in previous years, and we also come face to face with new issues as well. All the weather and trade aside, we faced some problems that we have been watching for...
Adverse conditions this year contributed to crop disease.Corteva Agriscience shares how you can gain better control over disease in 2020.Northern Corn Leaf Blight and Gray Leaf Spot this year were prevalent across the eastern and western Corn Belt. ?Both diseases are...
In animal agriculture, you have people who would like to stop current practices of raising livestock in confinement, in large groups and for food.There is an organization, however, that is on your side. It is called the Animal Agriculture Alliance. Their job, as they...
In 2019, it was all about taking advantage of the opportunities you were presented. You had to roll when the weather allowed, and you had to make market maneuvers in the few windows where it could pay off. Farm Credit said after a year that was as challenging as this...
There are many jobs that need doing on your farm. It is always important to have the right equipment available to do those jobs. Mahindra is the best-selling tractor in the world. They have been in the United States for a quarter-century, and they are starting to turn...
Preparedness and flexibility seem to be the hallmark lessons we learned in 2019. There were so many ways producers were forced to adapt their plans, but they weren?t the only ones. Companies like FMC are taking what they learned and trying to help producers be...
One of the most romantic sectors of modern agriculture is custom harvesting. Being able to travel a thousand miles across the Plains and Midwest to stay with the season and run monstrous reapers across the fields just sounds interesting. I spoke with a modern day...
