After a slow start to #plant18, this year’s crops are progressing nicely in many of the nation’s top-producing states, according to the latest USDA report. With crop conditions relatively steady, we thought the time was right to look at the developments that have most caught the attention of readers thus far this year.
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10 | Custom Applicators and Paperwork: The New Normal February 5: Everyone in agriculture agrees that getting things “right” in Year Two of the expanded dicamba age will be critical to the marketplace keeping this technology in its arsenal to combat resistant weeds. And a big part of this will be recordkeeping.
8 | Biostimulants Gaining Ground March 6: Multiplying firms and solid science are advancing the cause of these environmentally friendly production tools.
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7 | The Nitrogen-Based Fertilizer Outlook for 2018 February 5: The outlook for demand for these macronutrients is expected to be good this year, but keep an eye on China, India, and North America.
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6 | The Future for Crop Protection Companies, Post-Mergers March 5: As the Big Six has been whittling down to a Big Four/Five, there has been plenty of attention paid to how these various deals would eventually go down. Here's a company-by-company look at what might happen next.
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5 | E-commerce in Ag Retail: Big New Trend or Flash in the Pan? May 21: Does all of this interest in e-commerce signal a big new trend, or, will e-commerce become yet another ‘flash in the pan’ poised to do little more than temporarily distract us from more important matters?
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4 | Dicamba Discussion Dominates IFCA January 19: The Illinois Fertilizer & Chemical Association annual meeting featured plenty of talk around dicamba’s issues during 2017.
1 | Good-Bye, Monsanto April 16:CropLife editor Eric Sfiligoj asks whether Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto will likely mean the end of the company name, which would be much to the chagrin of anti-agriculture activists.
The slideshow above shows the 10 most-read CropLife.com stories in terms of unique pageviews, unveiled in descending order. Not surprisingly, Monsanto dominates the rundown.
015CropLife.com: Top 10 Stories from the First Half of 2018
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Matt Hopkins is Senior Online Editor for the Agribusiness Group at Meister Media Worldwide (MMW), including such brands as CropLife, CropLife IRON, AgriBusiness Global, Global Agtech Initiative, and Cotton Grower. He is responsible for managing an array of digital products, including newsletters, websites, video, and social media. Hopkins originally joined MMW in 1994 as an editor for Greenhouse Grower magazine before transitioning to Business Manager of its MeisterPro division. He has a Communications Degree from Cleveland State University. See all author stories here.
July 12, 2018 
