DuPont Pioneer researchers are working to help growers understand the risks of planting in cold, wet seedbeds and mitigate those challenges with corn hybrids that tolerate less-than-ideal soil conditions. Many Pioneer? brand hybrids feature ...
Tags: Cold Stress, Cold Stress in Corn, New Tools
Choose a net wrap that meets your needs, then make the necessary baler adjustments and stick with the same product, or at least the same manufacturer. That's the best route to dependable performance from round-bale net wrap, says David ...
Tags: Net Wrap, Agriculture, Farm
The All India daily kappas arrivals are approximately 2 lakh bales. Approximately 1.20 crore bales have arrived in the market and getting sold consistently as Mills and exporters are covering as per their requirements. North Mills and a few ...
Tags: Cotton Markets, Apparel
It was years in the making, but Dave Fink is now the exclusive manufacturer of a Purina Animal Nutrition horse-hay product called Hydration Hay. A commercial hay grower from Germansville, PA, Fink worked with the feed company to develop a ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Niche Horse-Hay Market
As the cold of winter settles in across the United States, associations that represent the interests of wheat farmers met in many states to review the last year's activities and set plans for the next year. USW officers and staff look ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Remember to take nitrogen credits when you use other nitrogen sources. There are simple management practices that farms can implement to optimize nitrogen applications as well as protect groundwater from nitrogen leaching. One of the ...
Tags: nitrogen, nitrogen sources, nitrogen applications, nitrogen rates
Swiss agrochemicals company Syngenta has agreed to offload its Dulcinea Farms business to Pacific Trellis Fruit, an American grower and marketer of fresh produce. Formed in partnership with Tanimura & Antle, Dulcinea Farms is a vehicle ...
Tags: Syngenta, Pacific Trellis Fruit
Japan-based Nitori Holdings Company is set to invest US$ 550 million in Tanzania’s cotton farming and related industries, Daily News Tanzania reported. The Japanese company has secured 40,000 hectares of land for commercial ...
Tags: Cotton Farming, Textile
In a matter of just three weeks the futures market has gone from being one of the cheapest suppliers to becoming one of the best buyers! On November 22, when spot December entered the notice period, it traded as low as 73.79 and closed that ...
Tags: futures market, Textile
One mainstream farmer is returning to conventional seed-and he's not alone As an invulnerable tween, Chris Huegerich, the child of a prosperous farming family, wiped out on his motorcycle in tiny Breda, Iowa. Forty years on, folks ...
Tags: agriculture, GMO, farmer
Archer Daniels Midland Company today announced a package of additional commitments related to its proposed acquisition of GrainCorp Limited. Key elements of that package are: An additional A$200 million investment to strengthen ...
About two years ago, I wrote a column on Apple’s new digital goddess Siri, the company’s digital assistant and go-to person for iPhone users. Folks could ask Siri a range of questions including street directions, the location of ...
Tags: Apple, revamp, Siri, agriculture
More and more consumers and corporations are touting the benefits of "local" foods, often described as "sustainable," "healthy," or "natural." According to the trade publication, Sustainable Food News, "local" as a marketing claim, has ...
Tags: local food, organic food, farming
The fall months are a celebratory time of the year in agriculture. Growers are busily harvesting an abundance of various crops following months of planning, investment, hard work, and sweat. Everyone is poised for a much deserved payday. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Oxford Frozen Foods, a frozen wild blueberries supplier, is set to invest C$184m to establish a new processing facility, develop wild blueberry fields in New Brunswick, Canada. As part of the project, the company will invest C$50m for ...
Tags: Frozen Foods, wild blueberries