Matt Hopkins
Matt Hopkins is Senior Multi-Media Specialist 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.
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Economist: MF Global’s Collapse More Important To Farmers Than Farm Bill
The collapse of MF Global could be felt as much by lenders as by farmers and elevators which had placed hedges, but have lost…
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EPA Finalizes 2012 Renewable Fuel Standards
The U.S. EPA finalized the 2012 percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the department’s Renewable Fuel Standard program called RFS2.…
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Monsanto Sues Seed Companies For Royalties
Monsanto has filed a lawsuit in federal court district court in St. Louis, saying the companies — Agventure Inc., Doebler’s Pennsylvania Hybrids Inc., Hoegemeyer…
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Study: Atrazine Still An Economic Driver
According to a new economic study by Paul D. Mitchell, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,…
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Product Of The Year: A Patriotic Victory
For the past five years, CropLife IRON has sought the opinions of its readers to determine which product should be awarded the magazine’s highest…
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Using Seed Protection To Improve ROI
As seed has become one of a customer’s biggest investments each season, more soybean growers are doing everything they can to maintain their seed…
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Bayer CropScience Divests Key Fungicides To FMC
Bayer CropScience has divested certain fungicides to FMC Corp., Philadelphia, PA. The transaction includes Rovral (iprodione) and Sportak (prochloraz) brand families for worldwide agricultural…
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7 Revenue Trends Impacting Ag Retail’s Top 100
People love lists. From David Letterman to Schindler, we have long used them for urgent matters of comedy and beyond. Yet some of my…
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Study: Herbicide May Impact Resistant Crops
Purdue University researchers have discovered a fine-tuning mechanism involved in plant root growth that has them questioning whether a popular herbicide may have unintended…
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CHS To Acquire Soy Protein Firm
CHS Inc. has signed an agreement with Solbar Industries Ltd., a global leader in specialty soy proteins and soy isoflavones to acquire 100 percent…
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