INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
November 30, 2023
News

2023 University Of Minnesota Variety Crop Trial Results Available Now

The Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES) and the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) have published the 2023 Minnesota Field Crop Trials.
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November 30, 2023
News
Family Farm Alliance

Confidential Memo Outlines Federal Government Plans To Mitigate Breaching Of Snake River Dams

Washington, D.C. – A confidential draft mediation document released today by four members of Congress outlines steps the U.S. Government (USG) will take to mitigate the breaching of four Lower Snake River dams, albeit recognizing the Congress would need t
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November 29, 2023
News

Invitation To The Minnesota Crop Pest Management Short Course

Join Minnesota Crop Production Retailers and the University of Minnesota Extension for a crop pest management short course.
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November 29, 2023
News
National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine

Ukrainian Sugar Factories Can Produce More Than 2mt Of Sugar: 30 sugar factories are participating in 2023/24 sugar-production season

Acting Chairman of the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine «Ukrsugar» Nazar Mykhailovyn told about this in an interview for The Ukrainian Farmer.
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November 28, 2023
News
Michigan Farm Bureau News Media

USDA Updates Crop Insurance For Sugarbeets, Adds Early Harvest Flexibility

USDA is revising its sugarbeet crop insurance policy to make the early harvest adjustment feature optional for producers.
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November 28, 2023
News

Rogers Sugar Seeks Mediation In Ongoing Effort To Reach Fair Collective Agreement With Workers At Vancouver Refinery

Vancouver, Canada – Rogers Sugar Inc. announced that it has applied to the British Columbia Labour Relations Board for mediation to reach a fair collective agreement with the Public and Private Workers of Canada (PPWC) Local 8 representing workers at the
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November 28, 2023
News

Rogers Sugar Announces Strike Action At Its Vancouver Refinery

Vancouver, Canada – Rogers Sugar Inc. announced that Public and Private Workers of Canada (PPWC) Local 8 has initiated strike action following a failure to agree on terms for a new collective agreement for its members at the Vancouver refinery. The existi
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November 27, 2023
New Products

AMAZONE And FieldView To Collaborate On Smart Farming

AMAZONE, the renowned agricultural equipment manufacturer, and FieldView, Bayer's leading platform for digital agriculture, are starting a strategic collaboration with the aim of further promoting and simplifying the adaptation of smart farming practices.
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November 27, 2023
News

2023/24 European Union Sugar Production Estimated Up Despite Lower Area In France

Kyiv — European Union beet sugar production for 2023/24 is forecast at 15.5 million tons from nearly 1.4 million hectares of sugarbeets. This would be a 3 percent increase in production compared to 2022/2023, despite a forecast 6 percent reduction of beet
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November 25, 2023
New Products

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions Highlights Pumps For Seed Treatment Applications

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions (WMFTS) highlights a wide range of pumps ideal for seed treatment applications. For low-pressure feed pump applications, Watson-Marlow offers Qdos chemical metering pumps, as well as its cased peristaltic pumps.
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November 24, 2023
News

USDA Holds Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony For The Sam Farr United States Crop Improvement And Protection Research Center In Salinas, California

Salinas, Calif. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the newly constructed Sam Farr United States Crop Improvement and Protection Research Center in Salinas, Californi
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November 24, 2023
News

USDA, U.S. Small Business Administration Strengthen Partnership To Create Jobs And Economic Growth In Rural America

Reno, Nev. – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced that USDA is strengthening its longstanding partnership with the Small Business Administration (SBA) to create jobs and expand access to new and better mark
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November 23, 2023
Feature

Celebrating Thanksgiving Foods

The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service released the attached photo to illustrate U.S. export facts when it comes to traditional Thanksgiving Day foods.
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November 22, 2023
News

USDA Announces 2022 Census Of Agriculture Data Release Details, Preliminary Return Rate, And Upcoming Special Studies

Washington – The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will release the 2022 Census of Agriculture data on Feb. 13, 2024.
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November 22, 2023
New Products

New Holland Reveals The New CR11, The Next-Generation Flagship Combine

In a major development in high-capacity harvesting, New Holland Agriculture is revealing the new CR11 combine. The CR11 combine incorporates new cutting-edge technologies that will help drive down the total cost of harvesting for large grain farmers and i
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November 21, 2023
News

New Plant Hardiness Map, Used By Gardeners Nationwide And Based On OSU Climate Data, Unveiled

Corvallis, Ore. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its new Plant Hardiness Zone Map, the national standard by which gardeners can determine which plants are most likely to survive the coldest winter temperatures at a certain location.
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November 21, 2023
News

USDA Unveils Updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Washington — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM), updating this valuable tool for gardeners and researchers for the first time since 2012. USDA’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map is the standard
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November 21, 2023
Feature

Survey: Half Of Consumers Plan To Order From Or Dine At Restaurants For Thanksgiving

Atlanta — Inspired by convenience and cost savings, one-third of consumers (32 percent) plan to order takeout/delivery for Thanksgiving dinner this year while 17 percent plan to dine in person at a restaurant.
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November 20, 2023
News
Montana State University Extension

Registration Open For Montana And Wyoming Sugarbeet And Malt Barley Symposium

Registration is open for the 2024 Montana and Wyoming Sugarbeet and Malt Barley Symposium, which will be held Jan. 9-10 at the Billings Hotel and Convention Center.
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November 20, 2023
New Products

Top Air ATV Enhanced For Big Sprayer Performance

Kalida, Ohio – Unverferth Manufacturing announces enhancements to its Top Air ATV sprayer that offer big sprayer performance in a smaller package. They feature an all-new 200-gallon, T-shaped tank design that incorporates an 18-gallon sump for more easily
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November 19, 2023
News
Ann Donahue, Western Growers Association

Stuart Woolf Is Elected New Western Growers Chair Of The Board

Kauai – Stuart Woolf, President and CEO of Woolf Farming & Processing, will serve as Chair of the Western Growers Board of Directors for a two-year term. Woolf was first elected to the Western Growers Board in 2015.
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November 19, 2023
News

Kubota Names New CEO For Kubota North America, New President For Kubota Tractor Corporation, And New VP For North America Manufacturing

Grapevine, Texas – Kubota North America announced significant leadership changes following the Kubota Corporation (KBT) Board of Directors meeting held in Osaka, Japan, with several appointments including Nobuyuki Ishii as CEO of Kubota North America (KNA
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November 18, 2023
News
Cristal-Union

Cristal Union: An Ambitious Plan Validated By The SBTi For Decarbonization And Eco-Friendly Water Management Supporting Adaptation To Climate Change

By 2030, the Group is committed to reducing its emissions of greenhouse gases by a further 23 percent compared to 2019 and stop drawing any water from the natural environment in order to operate its sugar production facilities.
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November 18, 2023
News

USDA Contributes To The Fifth National Climate Assessment, Highlighting Impacts On Agriculture, Forests And Rural Communities And Adaptation Needs

Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced its important contributions to the Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA5) demonstrating a commitment to understanding and addressing the effects of climate change.
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November 17, 2023
News

AEM United States Ag Tractor And Combine Report October 2023

Milwaukee – The Association of Equipment Manufacturers has released tractor sales data for October.
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November 17, 2023
Feature
Betty Resnick, Economist, American Farm Bureau Federation

Thanksgiving Dinner Cost Relief, But Still High Relative To Recent Years

As Americans prepare for Thanksgiving, they’ll see some relief in food prices for their Thanksgiving dinner. In the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 38th annual Thanksgiving dinner survey, we find that this year’s classic Thanksgiving feast for 10 will b
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November 16, 2023
News

Südzucker Expects Significant Year-On-Year Earnings Growth Also In The Third Quarter

Following a continued positive development, Germany-based Südzucker AG expects group operating result in the third quarter of fiscal 2023/24 (1 September to 30 November 2023) to be significantly higher than the previous year's level (Q3 2022/23: operating
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November 16, 2023
News

Bayer Third Quarter Below Prior Year As Expected; Group Outlook Confirmed: Structural options remain under review

Leverkusen – Bayer has confirmed its Group outlook for 2023 after posting third-quarter figures that were down against the previous year. “The results came in largely as we expected, knowing that Q3 is never our strongest quarter. The important message is
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November 15, 2023
News

Inaugural Idaho Agriculture Water Symposium Next Month

The inaugural Idaho Agriculture Water Symposium in Pocatello, ID, is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 11.
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November 15, 2023
News

Tereos Announces Sale Of Its UK Production Site To T&L Sugars Limited

Moussy-le-Vieux – France-based Tereos announces the pending sale of the Tereos UK and Ireland (TUKI) site in Normanton, West Yorkshire, and its business-to-consumer (B2C) activities to UK based T&L Sugars Limited (TLS).
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November 14, 2023
News

Stabenow, Boozman, Thompson, Scott Statement On Farm Bill Extension

Washington — The four leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees released the following statement on a Farm Bill extension:
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November 13, 2023
News
National Farmers' Union, UK

2024/25 Sugar Beet Negotiation: An Update From The Chair And Vice-Chair

On Wednesday 1 November, British Sugar contacted all growers with a document which asserted to contain details of the 2024/25 Sugar Beet Contract Offer.
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November 13, 2023
New Products

Kubota Introduces Fourth Generation M7 Ag Tractors: Kubota’s latest iteration of the M7 Series brings a new front loader built for power

Decatur, Il. – Kubota Tractor Corporation announced a new generation for the M7 Series and welcomed it to the brand’s lineup of agriculture tractors, building on and enhancing the productivity that farmers and producers expect from the M7 Series.
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November 11, 2023
News

Government Of Canada Invites FuelPositive To Join Rebuild Ukraine Delegation: Paving the way for sustainable agricultural and energy solutions

Waterloo, Ontario -- FuelPositive Corporation is paving the way for sustainable agricultural and energy solutions as part of the select Canadian Delegation, at the Rebuild Ukraine Conference in Warsaw, Poland, from Nov. 13-16.
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November 10, 2023
News
Mohamed Khan

Branch Joins NDSU Extension As Sugarbeet Specialist

Eric Branch has joined North Dakota State University Extension as a sugarbeet specialist and assistant professor in the Department of Plant Pathology.
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November 10, 2023
News

World Agricultural Supply And Demand Estimates – October 2023

SUGAR: Mexico production for 2023/24 is reduced by 245,000 metric tons (MT) to 5.330 million. Mexico is currently experiencing widespread drought conditions. Growing areas most severely affected are in the western Pacific region and in San Luis Potosi.
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November 09, 2023
News

USDA Launches Initiative To Enhance Competitiveness Of The U.S. Specialty Crops Industry

Washington – Agriculture Deputy Secretary Torres Small today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is initiating a new effort to further support the U.S. specialty crops sector and increase the competitiveness of its products as part of
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November 09, 2023
News
American Sugar Alliance

American Sugar Alliance Responds To Inaccuracies In GAO Sugar Report

“GAO continues to make major and obvious errors in their analysis of sugar policy and markets in the United States and in other countries to the detriment of American farm families and workers. We urge Congress to consider the facts, including that global
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November 08, 2023
News
Michigan Farm Bureau News Media

Noah Koth Wins FFA's Specialty Crop Production Agricultural Proficiency Award

North Huron FFA Chapter’s Noah Koth is this year’s national winner in the FFA Specialty Crop Production Agricultural Proficiency category.
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November 07, 2023
News

Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association Hosting International Event In June

Harrison Weber, executive director of the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association, has announced the organization is hosting the World Association of Beet and Cane Growers (WABCG) meeting in Fargo, ND, in June 2024.
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November 07, 2023
News

Some Numbers From Amalgamated Sugar’s 2022-23 Slicing Campaign

Now that the 2023 sugarbeet harvest is almost all but wrapped up in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, the three states where growers supply sugarbeets to Amalgamated Sugar’s three factories, that means the factories are well into the slicing campaign for this
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November 06, 2023
News
Sean Ellis, Idaho Farm Bureau Federation

Idaho Set A Record For Ag Production Value In 2022

Pocatello – Idaho set a record for total agricultural production value in 2022, blowing away the previous record.
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November 06, 2023
News
Dennis Rudat, Michigan Farm News Media

Court Ruling Reverses EPA’s Chlorpyrifos Ban, Restores Agricultural Uses

Agriculture groups are applauding a ruling from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals that upholds sound science by throwing out the Environmental Protection Agency’s rule that essentially banned the use of chlorpyrifos, a product farmers use to protect their
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November 05, 2023
News

Agribusiness Event Brings Together Simplot Women, Expertise, Innovation

Music City became an agribusiness hub as women from across the J.R. Simplot Company’s business attended the Women in Agribusiness (WIA) Conference in Nashville at the end of September. The event, which Simplot was a key (and founding!) sponsor of, was a g
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November 04, 2023
New Products

Groundwork BioAg Supercharges Agricultural Carbon Sequestration: Rootella Carbon Program unlocks carbon credit revenue for farmers; potential to sequester one gigaton CO2 equivalent within one decade

Mazor, Israel - Groundwork BioAg announced the global launch of the Rootella Carbon program, based on mycorrhizal carbon, a frontier technology that leverages mycorrhizal fungi as a nature-based solution for carbon dioxide removal.
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November 04, 2023
New Products

Trimble Introduces Integrated Precise Point Positioning As A Subscription For Agriculture Applications

Westminster, Colo. — Trimble announced out of the box availability of an integrated Precise Point Positioning (PPP) solution for agriculture applications combining Trimble CenterPoint RTX and the Trimble NAV-900. This adds greater convenience for customer
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November 03, 2023
News

USDA Announces Early Release Of Select Commodity Tables For Agricultural Projections To 2033

Washington – On Nov. 7, 2023, at 3 p.m. EST, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will release selected tables from the upcoming USDA Agricultural Projections to 2033 report prepared in support of the President’s annual budget process as defined in t
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November 03, 2023
Feature
Lyndon Kelley and Younsuk Dong, Michigan State University Extension

Risk Of Irrigation Water On The Road

The risk of irrigation water on the road takes several forms. The major concern is the injury or loss of human life due to losing control of a vehicle when encountering the splash of water or hydroplaning on pools of water on the road.
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November 02, 2023
News

Secretary Vilsack Highlights USDA’s Commitment To Future Generations In Agriculture: USDA and FFA sign Memorandum of Understanding at largest annual gathering of youth in agriculture

Indianapolis - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack addressed students, agricultural educators and guests at the opening session of the 96th National FFA Convention and Expo before signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the organization formalizing a par
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November 02, 2023
News

ISDA Announces The Idaho Farm And Ranch Conference January 4-5

Boise, Idaho – The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) announced the Idaho Farm and Ranch Conference Jan. 4-5, 2024 in Boise.
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November 01, 2023
News

DPH Biologicals, University Of Illinois Team Up To Improve Crop Residue Management

DPH Biologicals and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) announced a research collaboration validating the impact biologicals make to accelerate decomposition of crop residue, thereby unlocking the adoption of more sustainable and profitable
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November 01, 2023
News

USDA Research Investments Spur New Agricultural Markets

Denver – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced an investment of nearly $22 million in agricultural economics research that includes agricultural markets, international trade, farm labor, cons
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