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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Cargill Buys Iowa Corn Ethanol Plant
Privately held food producer Cargill has purchased Tate & Lyle’s corn wet mill ethanol plant located in Fort Dodge, IA. The plant has the…
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U.S. AgBank, CoBank Move Forward On Merger Plans
U.S. AgBank and CoBank, two of the five banks in the Farm Credit System, announced today that they have submitted their merger application to…
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Bayer CropScience To Acquire Seed Company
Bayer CropScience has entered into an agreement to purchase Hornbeck Seed Co. Inc. (HBK), a privately-held company headquartered in DeWitt, AR. Hornbeck is a…
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Retired Monsanto Executive Passes Away
Niswonger-Reynolds Funeral Home, Bend, OR, obituary: Jerry Lee Neff of Jackson Creek Ranch passed away March 11 from heart complications and a urosepsis infection.…
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Ford Tough
For visitors to the crop fields of West Central Minnesota, many might not believe their eyes. There, still working the application circuit is at…
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8 Spreaders For 2011 Season
This season manufacturers are making units more flexible, efficient and productive than ever.
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Monsanto’s GM Alfalfa Headed Back To Court
The lengthy legal battle over genetically modified alfalfa will go yet another round. On Friday, the Center for Food Safety, a group critical of…
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Attacking Waterhemp Resistance
Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. When fighting herbicide-resistant weeds, offensive moves could mean robust crop and herbicide mode of action rotations.…
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Lessons From The Past: ALS Resistance
The start of 2011 marked two decades since the first ALS-resistant weeds — kochia and Russian thistle — were documented in Montana. “The first…
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Monsanto, BASF To Advance Dicamba Tolerant Cropping System
BASF and Monsanto Co. have formed a new agreement to collaborate on the advancement of dicamba tolerant cropping systems. The companies have granted reciprocal…
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