INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
November 30, 2022
Feature

Mini-Cassia Hosts Local GEAR UP StudentsMini-Cassia Hosts Local GEAR UP Students

On November 17, 2022, Amalgamated Sugar’s Mini-Cassia factory hosted a group of students from Minico High School who are part of the GEAR UP program. GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) started in 1999.
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November 30, 2022
News

Certis Biologicals Elevates Leadership For U.S.-Based Sales Efforts

Columbia, Md. -- Certis Biologicals announced that veteran sales leader Tim Riley has been tapped to helm the company’s U.S.-based sales team as National Sales Director for U.S. Ag Business.
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November 29, 2022
News

CBP Issues Withhold Release Order On Central Romana Corporation Limited: Agency will detain imports of raw sugar and sugar-based products produced by Central Romana Corporation Limited

Washington — Effective Nov. 23, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel at all U.S. ports of entry will detain raw sugar and sugar-based products produced in the Dominican Republic by Central Romana Corporation Limited (Central Romana).
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November 29, 2022
News

Biome Makers Announces New Hire John Appel As Head of Commercial NA

Davis, California - Biome Makers, global agtech leader in soil health analysis, announces new hire, John Appel, as Head of Commercial North America. Appel will lead business development efforts and accelerate Biome Makers' business growth strategy.
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November 28, 2022
New Products

Spectrum Watchdog Portable Wind Sensor For Pesticide Spray Records

Spectrum Technologies has expanded its broad product offering with the release of the WatchDog Portable Wind Sensor.
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November 28, 2022
News

USDA Rule: Increasing Crop Insurance Flexibility For Sugarbeets

Washington -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Federal Crop Insurance Corporation has issued a rule (7 CFR Part 457), published in the Federal Register on Nov. 28, 2022, entitled "Increasing Crop Insurance Flexibility for Sugar Beets."
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November 23, 2022
Feature
Sean Ellis, Idaho Farm Bureau Federation

More Than 200 Attend First Statewide Farm Stress Conference

Boise – More than 200 people attended Idaho’s first-ever statewide conference dedicated to farm stress.
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November 23, 2022
News

USDA Invites Ag Producers To Respond Online To The 2022 Census Of Agriculture

Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) mailed survey codes to all known agriculture producers across the 50 states with an invitation to respond online to the 2022 Census of Agriculture at agcounts.usda.gov.
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November 22, 2022
Feature
Lucy Cooper and Lily Nothling, abc.net.au

Australia's First Fully Traceable Sustainable Sugar Exported From Queensland To South Korea

Tracking your sugar from the paddock to the supermarket shelf is now a reality with the help of blockchain technology.
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November 21, 2022
Feature

Just Another Sugarbeet Pile?

Yes, most sugar industry people would say a sugarbeet pile is pretty much just like any other sugarbeet pile.
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November 18, 2022
News

Regen Ag Lab Licenses BeCrop Technology For Deeper Biological Soil Analysis

Davis, California - Biome Makers and Regen Ag Lab announced that the companies have entered into a strategic partnership that will expand biological soil health analyses in North America.
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November 18, 2022
News

U.S. Sugar Supply Reduced In 2022/23; Total Mexican Exports Reduced On Larger Mexican Consumption

In the November, 2022, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, the 2022/23 U.S. total sugar supply is reduced from last month as lower sugar production and imports offset the higher beginning stocks.
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November 17, 2022
News
Richard Smoley, bluebookservices.com

Third Union Rejects Railway Contract

Following the midterms has been so fascinating that other news stories have faded into the background.
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November 17, 2022
News
Farm Press Staff Report

Pacific Northwest Crop Production Lighter: Potatoes, sugarbeets, corn for grain mostly down from '21 levels, according to NASS report

Drought, heat waves and rising input costs have apparently taken their toll on production of some crops in the Pacific Northwest.
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November 16, 2022
News

USDA Provides Nearly $24M Boost For Beginning Farmers, Ranchers

Washington – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Chief Scientist Chavonda Jacobs-Young announced a nearly $24 million investment across 45 organizations and institutions that teach and train beginning farmers and ranchers.
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November 16, 2022
Feature
Michael Weiss, Indigo Ag, indigoag.com

What Is A Soil Carbon Credit?

Agriculture is essential to ensuring global food security. However, the agricultural industry is also one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Some agricultural practices can release carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane into the atmosp
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November 15, 2022
News

University Of Idaho Ag Outlook Seminars

University of Idaho Extension has scheduled several seminars in mid December that should be of great interest to growers and other ag producers. Topics include global trade, weather, water, input cost trends and crop specific topics including grain and po
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November 15, 2022
News

American Agri-Women Elects New National Officers

Bozeman, Mont. (AgPR) – American Agri-Women (AAW) recently elected its national officers at its 2022 national convention in Bozeman, Mont. AAW, a national coalition of farm, ranch, and agri-business women, is in its 48th year of advocating for agriculture
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November 14, 2022
News
Wyoming News Exchange

Wyoming Sugar Company Pleased With This Year’s Beet Crop

Worland, Wyoming — The 2022 sugar beet harvest has been called a success by Wyoming Sugar Company and its growers.
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November 14, 2022
Feature
Scott Elliott, ARS Office of Communications

Cutting To The Chase: Drone technology saves time, improves production

Trial-and-error research is a time-honored tradition, but with the global population now at 7.9 billion – and expected to top 9.7 billion by 2050 – time is a luxury that we may not be able to afford as scientists race to find a way to feed all those peopl
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November 12, 2022
News
Melissa G.S. McKendree and Florencia Coletta, Michigan State University Extension

Free Online Farm Business Management Course Offered In November 2022

Farm Money Matters: Farm Business Management is a unique online course consisting of eight self-paced modules and four producer Zoom meetings. At the end of the course, you will develop an action plan to apply concepts learned to your farm.
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November 11, 2022
New Products

AGRIFORCE BK T71, BKT’S First Rubber Track For Agriculture Comes Into Being

Paris, France – Unstoppable on any terrain - this is how BKT and its strategic choice of entering a new market segment could be summed up. The company launches an absolute novelty: AGRIFORCE BK T71, the first of a brand-new series of BKT rubber tracks for
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November 11, 2022
News

Simplot Selects Dugdale To Lead New Global Food Effort

Boise, ID – The J.R. Simplot Company has named Graham Dugdale president of its newly formed Global Foods business group. Dugdale previously led Simplot Australia and will now assume the role of merging that business group with Simplot International Food G
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November 10, 2022
News

Cameron Edwards, Mason Troendle Join Meristem Crop Performance

Columbus, Ohio and Des Moines, Iowa (AgPR) – Two more leading agronomic professionals have joined Meristem Crop Performance, one of the fastest-growing crop input suppliers in America. Cameron Edwards will serve farm businesses in Ohio as sales representa
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November 10, 2022
News

Vive Named Co-Recipient Of NSERC’s Synergy Award For Innovation

Toronto, ON- Vive Crop Protection has been recognized as the co-recipient of the distinguished Synergy Award for Innovation from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) alongside Dr. Cynthia Goh, a professor of physical chemistry at
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November 09, 2022
News

World Agricultural Supply And Demand Estimates

SUGAR: U.S. sugar supply and use for 2021/22 is revised to incorporate complete fiscal year estimates in USDA’s Sweetener Market Data (SMD). Beet sugar production is estimated at 5.155 million short tons, raw value (STRV), an increase over last month of 7
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November 09, 2022
News
Sean Ellis, Idaho Farm Bureau Federation

Idaho Set a Record For Ag Export Value In 2021

Pocatello, Idaho – For the second straight year, Idaho set a record for total agricultural export value in 2021.
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November 08, 2022
News

WSU’s Lav Khot, Colleagues Receive Multi-State Award For Ag Drone Research, Extension

Lav Khot, associate professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, was honored by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ Commission on Food, Environment, and Renewable Resources for ongoing efforts to enhance the role of dr
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November 08, 2022
New Products

Cummins, Versatile Hydrogen Engine Collaboration Announced

Boone, Iowa – Cummins Inc. and Buhler Industries Inc., a leading tractor manufacturer under the Versatile brand, announced that they have signed a letter of intent and plans to integrate the Cummins 15-liter hydrogen engines in Versatile’s equipment to le
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November 07, 2022
News

EEOC Has Updated Its "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination Is Illegal" Poster

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has updated its “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. The poster – revised as of October 20, 2022 – replaces and supersedes all prior versions of the poster.
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November 07, 2022
News

Agriculture Minister Says Sugar Industry Must be Modernised

Jamaica’s sugar industry must be modernised in order to meet the demands of today’s society, says Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr.
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November 06, 2022
News

Sentera Launches Precise Geolocation System For Faster Data Delivery: Direct Georeferencing (DGR) System increases project efficiency by 3x

St. Paul, Minn. – Sentera, the industry leading ag analytics platform powered by machine learning, announced the launch of its Direct Georeferencing (DGR) System, which quickly connects to an ag drone to add high-precision location certainty to high-resol
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November 06, 2022
News

2022 MFBF Convention Slated For Nov. 14-16 In Missoula, MT

Event Registration 2022 MFBF Annual Convention Schedule, Registration
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November 05, 2022
News

SynTech Research Group Chooses BeCrop Technology For R&D Services

SynTech Research Group, global agricultural contract research, product positioning, development, registration, and market support services provider, has committed to utilizing Biome Makers’ BeCrop technology and its taxonomic database of over 10M microorg
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November 05, 2022
News

Biome Makers Receives $1.6M For AI Development To Accelerate Global Soil Restoration

Davis, Calif. - Biome Makers, a global agtech leader in soil health analysis, has been awarded $1.6M from the European Union. This grant is a testament to the need for strong solutions around soil biology in agriculture. The European Union recognizes the
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November 04, 2022
News

AMVAC, NewLeaf Symbiotics Partner to Bring Biological Solutions To North American Crop Markets: Partnership to bolster AMVAC’s growing GreenSolutions biological portfolio; NewLeaf Symbiotics set to gain wider market access

Newport Beach, Calif. — AMVAC, an American Vanguard Company, and NewLeaf Symbiotics of St. Louis, Missouri, have announced a new partnership to bring new and existing biologicals solutions to North American crop markets beginning in 2023.
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November 04, 2022
Feature

Vietnam Sugar Industry Targets To Restore Cane Output: The domestic sugarcane and sugar industry expects to continue output growth with the 2022-23 crop thanks to the positive production performance and th

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The domestic sugarcane and sugar industry expects to continue output growth with the 2022-23 crop thanks to the positive production performance and the tariff policy's efficiency for importing sugar.
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November 03, 2022
Feature

2022’s Best Cities For Sweet Tooths

America loves sweets, but which cities will give you the biggest sugar rush?
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November 03, 2022
News

Idaho Irrigation Equipment Association Winter Show & Conference

(ED--We printed the wrong dates and location for the IIEA Winter Show & Conference in Sugar Producer Magazine. Here is the correct information. We apologize for our oversight.)
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November 02, 2022
News

BASF Hires Two New Technical Field Representatives To Cover The West

BASF Agricultural Solutions has welcomed two new technical field representatives to its agronomic team. Both members have been assigned to regions of California and Arizona.
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November 02, 2022
New Products

AGCO Power Releases A Completely New Engine Family For Off-Road Vehicles: Radical step towards carbon neutral engines

Linnavuori, Finland - AGCO Power is a global diesel engine manufacturer for world-renowned tractor brands such as Fendt, Valtra, Massey Ferguson as well as other heavy machinery. Now AGCO Power has developed and manufactured a completely new family of die
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November 01, 2022
News
Jim Camberato, Agronomy Department, Purdue University

Keep In Mind Soil Test K And pH Are Affected By Low Soil Moisture

Summary Sample to the proper depth and retain the whole soil core to get a representative soil sample.
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November 01, 2022
News

Khan Named NDSU Extension Assistant Director For Agriculture And Natural Resources: His appointment began Oct. 24 after serving six months as interim assistant director

Mohamed Khan accepted the role of assistant director, agriculture and natural resources, for North Dakota State University Extension and started in this role on Oct. 24.
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