Jackie Pucci
Jackie Pucci is Senior Editor for CropLife, PrecisionTech Ag Professional, and AgriBusiness Global.
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California Agriculture: What A Difference A Year Makes For Insect And Disease Control
“We finally got the rain,” David Haviland, Entomology and Pest Management Farm Advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension, says. “We’re extremely grateful…
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A New Weed-Control Era Begins: But First, One Last Obstacle
There is trepidation, there is reluctance, and there is excitement. Ag retailers feel it all about the new dicamba and 2,4-D technologies finally set…
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Growers Looking For Selectivity, Flexibility With Fungicide Options
Selectivity remains the name of the game in 2017. “People that were more selective last year and didn’t get burned by Northern corn leaf…
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Insecticides: How To Win With A Smaller Arsenal
There’s no way around it: Loss is a central theme this year in dealing with insect pressure in the U.S. “My biggest problem with…
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The Path Ahead For Mergers & Acquisitions In Agriculture
Bayer AG’s proposed $66 billion takeover of Monsanto would create, by far, the industry giant capturing more than a quarter of the world’s seed…
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Climate Corp. CEO Talks Retailer Support For Digital Ag
CropLife Magazine’s sister publication, AgriBusiness Global, recently sat down with Mike Stern, CEO of The Climate Corp., following the Monsanto subsidiary’s acquisition of farm software…
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Great Service, Advanced Automation Set Seed Care Equipment Apart
If you ask Todd Grimes, Vice President of Sales and Marketing with USC LLC, what is driving the seed treatment equipment industry, it’s all…
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Pressure’s Up On Drift Reduction
The pressure was already on for the ag industry to reduce drift. Now, after what the South experienced over the summer — hundreds of…
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Biologicals Distribution: A Tough Nut To Crack
It wasn’t so long ago that you could sum up how the distribution chain felt about biologicals in a word: Distrust. Long tainted by…
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Biologicals M&A Boom Begins To Bear Fruit
There’s a widely held belief in the crop protection world that when multinationals dived into the biologicals space it legitimized the industry. “Companies that weren’t…
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