Commodity Classic 2015 Sets Attendance High Mark

The acquisition adds another strategic platform to VBC’s rapidly expanding global biorational business, providing additional tools for the Biorational Window platform being developed with its parent, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

A dizzying array of developments in crop protection technologies promise to make specialty adjuvants a crucial piece of the puzzle going forward.

Under careful watch, the new 2,4-D- and dicamba-tolerant crops hit more acres this season.

Started in 2010, the Flag the Technology program provides a visual reference for applicators to distinguish between fields planted with different herbicide-tolerant trait technologies.

New for 2015 are NutriVision Technology, a unique tool for monitoring in-season plant nutrient availability, and Ascend WSG plant growth regulator, a new dry formulation of Ascend plant growth regulator.

Verdesian Life Sciences is launching NutriSphere-N HVTM, a new polymer formulation of the proven NutriSphere-N Nitrogen Fertilizer Manager that protects high-volume applications of UAN.

EVITO fungicide from Arysta LifeScience North America gives Canadian wheat and barley growers a new option for disease control.

FLM+ will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Land O’Lakes, Inc., and the company will retain its employee base after closing of the deal, which is scheduled for the second quarter of the year.

The new alliance will greatly expand sales opportunities for Stine Seed with the United Supplier Seed Link Owners.

The secretary will deliver a keynote address to several thousand farmers and ag allies during the event’s General Session, to be held Friday, February 27, in Phoenix, AZ.

On-farm storage of soybeans requires some special considerations compared to corn.

In its first full year of field trials, the BioAg Alliance reported that the top 10 microbial strains tested in corn and soybeans showed very promising results.

The closing of this acquisition marks Platform’s third acquisition within the agrochemicals operating segment following the acquisitions of the Agriphar Group and Chemtura AgroSolutions in 2014.

Practical experience from some of the most successful growing operations and influential advisers and biocontrol suppliers in the U.S. highlight the agenda for the first-ever Biocontrols 2015 Conference and Tradeshow.

Featuring two modes of action, Revulin Q helps preserve the efficacy of existing herbicide options when used in a strategic weed-control program.

The Fertilizer Institute enters 2015 with a renewed focus in several important areas, including sustainability, 4R certification and advocacy.

DiFlexx (dicamba) has a wide window of application, from burndown to V10, for ensuring complete broadleaf weed control and flexibility, and is tankmix compatible with Corvus or Balance Flexx herbicides from burndown to V2, and post with Laudis or Capreno herbicides.

A University of Georgia professor is advocating that farmers rotate the pesticides they apply to cotton crops in order to prevent another outbreak of the herbicide-resistant weed, Palmer amaranth.