Chinese dairy major Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial has partnered with Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) to establish a dairy plant in Kansas. The company owns 30% stake in the joint venture, which has a registered capital of around $100m. ...
Tags: Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial, Dairy Farmers of America, Agriculture
Dow AgroSciences announced today it will launch Enlist Duo herbicide, a proprietary blend of glyphosate and new 2,4-D choline, for the 2015 crop season. Select growers will participate in this stewarded introduction. Enlist Duo is part of ...
Monday's USDA Crop Production caught the market's attention for a short time, but since then, the focus has turned to the weather in key soybean-growing areas of South America. Though rainfall is forecast in some of those critical areas, ...
Tags: Soybean, Agriculture
The corn and soybean crops in the U.S. are massive. Monday's USDA Crop Production report shows the soybean crop continues to skyrocket in size, but the corn crop's slightly smaller than earlier estimates. Now, speculation's rising that ...
Tags: Corn, Soybean, Agriculture
Now that the end is in sight for most farmers -- and fortunately so on account of the Arctic blast of freezing temperatures and snow that have moved into the nation's center this week -- corn and soybean harvest have both caught up to the ...
Tags: Corn Harvest, Agriculture
Today Verdesian Life Sciences, LLC (Verdesian) announced a new seed inoculant for soybeans — Preside CL, available for the 2015 growing season. In replicated field trials, seeds inoculated with Preside CL reached canopy closure ...
Harvest is beginning to wrap-up, and the WASDE and Crop Production Reports estimate that yields are still claiming the title of "highest yields on record." The USDA reports that average U.S. corn yields are 173.4 bu/a, down .8 bushel from ...
Tags: Corn, Agriculture
About 2/3 of the nation's corn crop is out of the field, while farmers have caught up with the average pace with soybean harvest, according to Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progress report. Eighty-three percent of the nation's soybean crop has ...
Tags: Corn, Soybean Harvest
Corn harvest is almost to the halfway point in what some farmers are starting to say will be a "long fall," while soybean harvest continues to progress closer to the average pace, according to Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progres report. ...
Rains continue to criss-cross the Midwest and mid-South, forcing even more corn and soybean harvest delays. And, the trend's expected to stay in place for the next couple of weeks, forecasters say. After rainfall this week that addded to ...
Tags: Rains, Harvest Progress, Food
With a few exceptions from minor rainfall in spots in the Corn Belt, a weather window's expected to stay open through the next few days, allowing corn harvest to advance and soybean drydown to continue. Meanwhile, the drier pattern will ...
Tags: Weather, Harvest, Agriculture
As expected, the U.S. corn and soybean crop condition ratings have been left unchanged from a week ago, according to the USDA Crop Progress Report Monday. For corn, the USDA rated the crop as 74% good/excellent, equal to a week ago and ...
Tags: Corn Harvest, soybean
The WASDE and Crop Production Reports estimate record average yields for both corn and soybeans. Those big numbers make a bearish boom in the oversupplied markets. The USDA reports that average U.S. corn yields are 171.7 compared to ...
Tags: corn, soybeans, Agriculture
DuPont announced construction on two state-of-the-art Integrated Seed Science Network centers. These facilities will be dedicated to developing and testing seed treatment formulations, applications and seed handling techniques. The first ...
Tags: DuPont, Facilities, Food