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GDM streamlines brands after acquisition
GDM is moving ahead with a seed brand realignment that will take effect in 2027, but company leaders say growers should expect no changes for the 2026 planting season. The move follows GDM’s acquisition of AgReliant last September, a deal that brought together major soybean and corn genetics pipelines and created some overlap among seed brands in several regions. Austin Horn with GDM says the company’s first priority is making sure growers head into the 2026 season with the same brands and...
U.S. agriculture reacts to EPA E15 emergency waiver
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency fuel waiver to allow E15 fuel to be sold during the summer driving season. Reaction from some of America?s leading ag and renewable fuel organizations has been positive. ?U.S. gas inventories are even...
Naig sees ?trade disadvantage? with some Pacific trading partners
Trade around the globe is very competitive. While we like to hang our hat on the reliability and the quality of our products around the globe. However, this is challenging because, currently, other countries can offer products cheaper, or they have better trade...
Iowa State University adds new Ag Communications major
Many people just think of farming when they think about agriculture, but it?s much more diverse than that. Some agriculturists work in lab coats as scientists, some have grease-covered hands from working on machinery, and some work in communications and tell the story...
Giving growers more flexibility to better control weeds
When selecting a corn herbicide, it is vital to select a product with a broad range of weed control. Trivolt is a selective herbicide from Bayer for the control of important broadleaf and grass weeds in field corn, seed corn, and corn grown for silage.Dominik Hoffmann...
Reach out to your neighbors during Mental Health Awareness Month
Small Gestures, Big Impact: That?s the theme for May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month, by the American Farm Bureau Federation. Lisa Wherry, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau and AFBF Women?s Leadership Committee member, said it?s all about reaching out to your...
EPA to issue E15 waiver for another summer
?Nothing like waiting til the last minute.?That is a phrase that we are all used to hearing in any walk of life. It lends itself to the fine art of procrastination in which something is done that should really have been done hours, days, months, and even years ago....
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SAF powers first trans-Atlantic flight
It was a first for sustainable aviation fuel this week as a 100 percent SAF trans-Atlantic test flight flew from London to New York. Virgin Atlantic says its flight to New York’s JFK International Airport was powered by fuel from plant sugars and waste fats and...
A bright spot for 2023 Iowa farm incomes
Finding some optimism on 2023 farm incomes as USDA has revised upwards their most recent estimates. Danny Munch, an economist with the American Farm Bureau, says the picture is a little brighter than the August predictions: “In the August reports, USDA forecasted...
Court filing on year-round E15 in the Midwest
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird filed a motion for summary judgment regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to respond to a request to sell year-round E15 in Midwest states. Iowa and six other states filed an opt-out request that would allow them to...
Farm stability a factor as we enter 2024
In 2023 we saw a little more of a bumpy ride than we have had in the few years prior. By no means are we in any kind of trouble, but profit margins were a little tighter. That means it is going to take even more careful planning to grow a crop in conditions that may...
U.S. Export Sales Report (11-30-23)
The new marketing year has been slowly improving, and that continues with this week’s export sales. Allendale commodity broker Greg McBride said the corn sales in particular caused a bit of a stir in the grain markets. McBride said the persistent soybean flash sales...
