INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
April 30, 2019
New Products, News

Nufarm Names Bowley as Brand Marketing Manager: Chris Bowley to lead marketing for broadacre crop protection products

Chris Bowley to lead marketing for broadacre crop protection products
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April 30, 2019
News

Extreme Weather: Dealing with the Aftermath

This year, weather-related challenges hit farms in some parts of the U.S. especially hard, forcing farmers to take a second look at spring planting plans.
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April 30, 2019
News

Ag Resource Management Opens Fargo Branch

Ag Resource Management (ARM) announces the opening of its Fargo, N.D., location, with Don Leapaldt as market leader.
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April 30, 2019
New Products

Sigma Agriscience Partners with Heliae Agriculture

Sigma Agriscience, a manufacturer of granular biofertilizers and biostimulants, will begin offering new performance-based fertilizer blends in partnership with Heliae Agriculture. This new portfolio of products will assist with root growth, yield and many
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April 29, 2019
News
Emily Hone

Idaho Grower Keeps It in the Family

While USDA statistics show many young people moving on from life on the farm to easier occupations that promise better pay, Patrick Olsen isn’t one of them.
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April 29, 2019
News
Mikkel Pates

Perdue Hears from N.D. Farm Groups

U.S. secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue on Saturday heard a parade of North Dakota farm group leaders offer support, but also concern about ongoing damage from trade wars before announcing an extension for the Market Facilitation Program payment deadli
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April 29, 2019
News

USDA-ARS Partnership Leads To Low-GI Sweetener

USDA researchers have partnered with industry to develop a low-glycemic sweetener, a benefit for diabetics and crop farmers. Sucromalt is part sucrose from beet or cane sugar, and part maltose from corn sugar.
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April 29, 2019
New Products

New Product: Climate FieldView from Ceres Imaging

Ceres Imaging announces an expanded platform partnership agreement with The Climate Corporation to further integrate the Ceres aerial imaging solution with Climate FieldView, the industry’s leading digital agriculture platform.
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April 26, 2019
News
Spike Jordan

Growers Behind in Beet Planting

The rains over Easter Sunday and forecasts of snow for early next week in Western Sugar territory have forced many sugarbeet growers to play catch-up with planting.
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April 26, 2019
News
Ben Guarino

Plans to Move USDA Research Divisions Move Forward

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is moving forward with plans to relocate two influential scientific agencies out of downtown Washington.
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April 25, 2019
New Products, News
Steve Werblow

Jammie Wutzke: A World of Experience: After traveling the globe, this AgriEdge specialist is happy to be home.

After traveling the globe, this AgriEdge specialist is happy to be home.
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April 24, 2019
News

Vestaron Hires Field Development Biologist

Daniel Peck is the most recent team member to join Vestaron Corp as a field development biologist.
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April 24, 2019
New Products, News

Growers Edge Adds Cosgrove to Team

Growers Edge Financial, Inc. announces the appointment of Dan Cosgrove as chief strategy officer. He will focus on accelerating the company’s growth by building out the financial business line and leading joint development activities.
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April 24, 2019
News
Steve Werblow

Syngenta Agronomist Builds on Family Legacy

There are two themes that run through Christine May's family—agriculture and teaching. May is keenly aware of her family legacy, and she builds on it each day in her role as a Syngenta agronomy service representative.
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April 23, 2019
News

Agriculture Sees Decrease in Hiring

The U.S. ag industry saw an 11 percent decrease in hiring from the first quarter of 2018 to 2019.
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April 22, 2019
News
Jaclyn Krymowski

Defining the Family Farm: Why It Matters

You’ve heard the statistic time and time again: According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 90-some percent of all U.S. farms are family owned and operated. This is something we should be proud of, isn’t it?
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April 22, 2019
News

Cover Crop Use Has Surged in Last Five Years

Cover crops were planted on 15.4 million acres in 2017, an increase of 50 percent over five years, the 2017 Census of Agriculture shows.
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April 22, 2019
News
Elizabeth Creech

10 Takeaways from 2017 Census of Agriculture

The average age of all producers in 2017 was 57.5 years, which is 1.2 years older than 2012’s average. This reflects a long-term trend of aging in U.S. producers.
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April 15, 2019
News

2017 Census of Agriculture Data Available

Information collected directly from farmers and ranchers tells us both farm numbers and land in farms have ongoing small percentage declines since the last Census in 2012.
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April 13, 2019
News
Natural Resources Institute Finland

Pre-Crop Values Support Ag Diversification

Pre-crop values for a high number of previous and following crop combinations are now available to support diversification of currently monotonous crop sequencing patterns in agriculture.
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April 12, 2019
News

Start Early on Farm Transition: The emotional and financial transitioning of farms to the next generation can be difficult. The best way to make it easier is to start the conversatio

The emotional and financial transitioning of farms to the next generation can be difficult. The best way to make it easier is to start the conversation early.
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April 11, 2019
News

Perdue Issues Statement on Vietnam's Glyphosate Import Ban

“We are disappointed in Vietnam’s decision to ban glyphosate, a move that will have devastating impacts on global agricultural production,” says the U.S. ag secretary.
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April 11, 2019
News

Safety Tips For Checking Irrigation Equipment After Flooding

With flood waters beginning to recede on more than a million acres of farmland in the Midwest, growers will be wanting to restore their operations. Reinke Manufacturing is reminding you of some critical safety guidelines.
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April 10, 2019
News
Erin Lizotte and James DeDecker, Michigan State University Extension

New Wildlife Management Resource Available for Farmers: Learn about the latest strategies and regulations regarding wildlife management on the farm.

Learn about the latest strategies and regulations regarding wildlife management on the farm.
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April 10, 2019
News
Ronald Goldy, Michigan State University Extension Vegetable Educator

Mutation Examples and How They Happen: We are quick to notice and utilize some plant mutations, while others go undetected.

We are quick to notice and utilize some plant mutations, while others go undetected.
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April 10, 2019
News

FMC Names Coen U.S. Commercial Director : Christina Coen will assume sales leadership role on May 1 as John Kasper retires

Christina Coen will assume sales leadership role on May 1 as John Kasper retires
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April 09, 2019
News

Dilution Solutions Names Donnell as a Technical Sales Rep

Lori Donnell brings 20 years of experience working in industrial distribution.
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April 09, 2019
News

Senninger Launches Online Training Courses

Senninger’s free online courses offer professionals in-depth information on irrigation concepts and products, installation recommendations and troubleshooting tips.
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April 08, 2019
News

Produce Shipments Slowing at U.S.-Mexico Border

Shipments of fresh produce from Mexico into the U.S. are likely to be impacted by the U.S. reassignment of up to 750 border guards to assist in processing migrant crossings along the southern border.
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April 05, 2019
News

Calendar: Actagro Technology and Innovation Center Grand Opening: April 24 in Kerman, Calif.

April 24 in Kerman, Calif.
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April 04, 2019
News

USDA Census of Agriculture One Week Away

USDA-NASS will release the 2017 Census of Agriculture results on Thursday, April 11. The full Census report will include millions of data points, including number of farms, land in farms, total value of production, demographics, and more at the national,
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April 04, 2019
News

Ag Research Funding Can Supercharge U.S. Industry: Coalition warns of need for additional investment in order to remain globally competitive.

Coalition warns of need for additional investment in order to remain globally competitive.
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April 04, 2019
News

Nebraska Extension Offers Resources to Flood Victims

As Nebraskans begin returning to their homes in the aftermath of widespread historic flooding, Nebraska Extension has mobilized a number of resources to aid in the road to recovery.
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April 04, 2019
News

PERC Launches e-Newsletter for Ag Industry: ‘The Ag Post’ offers producers quick access to important propane-related news and equipment information

The Propane Education & Research Council is launching a new e-newsletter for members of the agricultural community interested in more information about propane-powered farm equipment.
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April 04, 2019
New Products

New Product: Trimble Farmer Core

Trimble introduces Farmer Core, a new entry-level software solution that integrates machine-generated data from precision ag displays to simplify farm setup and streamline farm operations.
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April 03, 2019
News

Flood-Damaged Crops in Storage Won't Receive Disaster Aid

While the U.S. government has said that it will aid farmers that were affected by flooding, there is nothing that it can do about the millions of crops that were damaged in storage.
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April 03, 2019
News

Helm Hires New Regulatory Affairs Leader

Helm Agro US announces the hiring of Matt Granahan as the company’s new U.S. regulatory affairs leader.
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April 03, 2019
News

USDA Revamps farmers.gov

New farmers.gov features to help with H-2A applications, loan management
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April 01, 2019
New Products

New Product: Single Phase Pump Solutions

Single Phase Power Solutions introduces single-phase pump solutions that don’t require a phase converter or variable frequency drive.
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April 01, 2019
News

Why Herbicides Sometimes Fail

It’s a problem many growers have experienced at some point. You put down a pre-emergence herbicide marketed as having residual control, only to find unwanted weeds sprouting up a few weeks later. So you follow it up with a post-emergence herbicide, but st
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