INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
February 28, 2020
News

Helm Hires Regional Sales Manager

Helm Agro US, Inc. announces the hiring of Drew Stevenson as regional sales manager for the Western Corn Belt.
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February 27, 2020
Feature, Grower of the Month
Tyrell Marchant, editor

“From Knee-High on Up”: 2020 Grower of the Year Clark Enterprises of Wyoming

Brothers Tim and Tom Clark have always been sugarbeet farmers.
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February 26, 2020
News
Anna Dragseth

Sidney Sugars Welcomes New Agriculturist

Timothy Cymbaluk hails from Crookston, Minn., and recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in crop and weed science from North Dakota State University.
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February 25, 2020
New Products

New Product: Wilbur-Ellis Efficax Adjuvant

Efficax is a soil retention adjuvant that helps growers’ spray applications last longer by increasing the coverage, absorption and adhesion of the spray material deposits onto soil particles.
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February 25, 2020
News

USDA, USTR Announce Progress on Implementation of U.S.-China Phase One Agreement

China has taken numerous actions to begin implementing its agriculture-related commitments under the landmark U.S.-China Phase One Economic and Trade Agreement.
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February 25, 2020
News
Karla Wilke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research & Extension Center

Early Low Temperatures May Impact Beet Quality

Temperatures dropping below 15 degrees in early October last fall caused some sugarbeets in western Nebraska to decay at the crown.
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February 25, 2020
News
Kevin Fink

Nebraska Family Relishes Challenges of Farming

South of Melbeta, Neb., tucked between several large cottonwood trees, sits the Fitts Farm, owned and operated by Dan and Becky Fitts.
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February 21, 2020
News

American Sugar Alliance Touts Sustainability

The American Sugar Alliance recently traveled to two sugar-farming states to talk with sugar producers about the farming practices they are using to sustain the environment.
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February 20, 2020
New Products, News

Growers Highly Satisfied with Vive Products

Farmers who used either AZteroid FC 3.3 or Bifender FC in 2019 are planning to re-use the products in 2020 and to tell their friends and neighbors.
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February 20, 2020
New Products

New Product: Kuhn Krause Excelerator XT 8010 Vertical Tillage System

The new Excelerator XT 8010 provides producers with a versatile and productive high-speed vertical tillage tool that is proficient in either fall or spring tillage applications.
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February 19, 2020
Below the Surface, Feature
Tyrell Marchant, editor

Between the Rows: The Ties That Bind: Appreciating the irritating, exasperating blessing that is family

Appreciating the irritating, exasperating blessing that is family
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February 19, 2020
New Products

Valley, Cordoba Partner to Develop Precision Application Solutions

Valley Irrigation announces a partnership with Cordoba Technologies, Inc., an innovator in automated, high-precision application systems for crop protection products.
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February 19, 2020
News

Reinke Acquires Ace Irrigation & Manufacturing

Reinke Manufacturing announces the acquisition of Ace Irrigation & Manufacturing to expand its manufacturing operation.
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February 19, 2020
News

Wyoming Growers Feel Strain of Difficult 2019

In northern Wyoming, farmers who grow sugarbeets are facing a hardship like they’ve not seen in generations.
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February 19, 2020
New Products

Nachurs Alpine Solutions Receives Patents for Acetate Technology

This technology is a method of fertilizing an agricultural crop using an environmentally friendly and versatile high-potassium-content liquid fertilizer. Specifically, these patents pertain to the use and application of potassium acetate, either alone or
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February 18, 2020
New Products

BioSafe’s BioCeres WP Now Available in California

BioSafe Systems announces BioCeres WP is now available in California. This product is an insect-pathogenic biopesticide using the Beauveria bassiana fungus. This OMRI-listed, ANT-03 strain is ideal for integrated pest management programs.
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February 18, 2020
New Products

New Product: Amity 2720 Sugarbeet Harvester

This 12-row harvester utilizes a higher-volume scrub tower, Dynamic Chain Management, ISOBUS active depth control, newly designed maintenance access doors, and an option for larger tires—or even tracks.
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February 18, 2020
News

ARC/Charleston|Orwig Accepting Scholarship Applications

Each year, one college student studying agricultural communications and public relations is awarded a $1,500 scholarship. The deadline to apply for the scholarship is March 15, 2020.
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February 17, 2020
New Products

New Product: Lindsay Zimmatic Poly Pipe

Lindsay Corporation announces the global release of new Zimmatic poly pipe for its center pivot irrigation systems, designed for growers who irrigate in corrosive water environments.
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February 17, 2020
News

Fischer Urges USDA to Support Sugarbeet Farmers

Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, joined her Senate colleagues in signing a letter urging USDA secretary Sonny Perdue to take immediate action in implementing a provision designed to support sugarbeet farmers affe
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February 10, 2020
New Products

BioSafe’s OxiDate 5.0 Approved in California

OxiDate 5.0 is a keystone chemistry to any successful spray program, as it ensures an increased return on investment by delivering dependable and compelling results at a competitive price.
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February 08, 2020
New Products

Tractor Buyers' Guide

We here at Sugar Producer firmly believe that, given the opportunity, no one in this world would turn down an offer to get behind the wheel of a roaring, tires-taller-than-me, zillion-horsepower tractor.
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February 08, 2020
Feature, New Products
Tyrell Marchant, editor

Master & Commander: Mud Commander could revolutionize how pivots get through the field

Mud Commander pivot wheels could revolutionize how pivots get through the field.
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February 07, 2020
News

Wyoming Senators Urge USDA to Support Sugarbeet Farmers

U.S. Sens. Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, both R-Wyo., are urging the USDA to take immediate action to support local sugar beet farmers affected by adverse weather.
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February 07, 2020
Feature
Suzanne Bopp

Essential to the Future: New traits developed with biotech require timely, scientific-based regulatory evaluations.

New traits developed with biotech require timely, scientific-based regulatory evaluations.
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February 06, 2020
News

American Farmland Trust Announces New Regional Director

American Farmland Trust has hired Addie Candib as its Pacific Northwest regional director. Shewill provide strategic leadership for AFT’s programs in the Pacific Northwest, with an emphasis on Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
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February 06, 2020
Feature
Lyndon Kelley & Eric Anderson

View from Above: Drone video can help identify where center pivot sprinkler repairs should be made.

Drone video can help identify where center pivot sprinkler repairs should be made.
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February 05, 2020
News, New Products

Partnership Paves Way for Farmers to Sell Carbon Credits

Locus Agricultural Solutions and Nori say they’ve paved the way for payments to farmers harvesting carbon. The partnership gives farmers an incentive to grow crops in a way that removes carbon from the air by using the most advanced nature-based technolog
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February 04, 2020
News

Job Opening: Potato Physiologist, Washington State University Dept. of Horticulture

This tenure-track, 12-month faculty position as assistant or associate professor is located on the WSU-Pullman campus and begins in the summer of 2020.
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February 04, 2020
News

Expected Improved Trade with China Improves Farmer Sentiment

“The Phase One Trade Agreement has largely been considered a win for U.S. exporters, although few details are available regarding how the additional $200 billion in purchases by China will be distributed over the next two years and how much impact it will
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February 04, 2020
News

USDA Issues Last Batch of 2019 Trade Aid

U.S. secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue on Feb. 3 announced the third and final tranche of 2019 Market Facilitation Program payments aimed at assisting farmers suffering from damage due to trade retaliation by foreign nations.
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February 03, 2020
News

Calendar: Michigan Family Farms Conference

Small- and medium-scale farmers are invited to attend the Michigan Family Farms Conference on Feb. 8, 2020 at the Kalamazoo Valley Community College.
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February 03, 2020
News

India to Promote More Sugarbeet Production

Some local governments in India will promote the cultivation of sugarbeet, instead of sugarcane, to increase farmers’ future incomes by reducing the cost of cultivation and increasing yield.
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February 01, 2020
Feature
John Fischer

Equipment Expectations

Fully realizing the potential of diesel engines
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