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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Team Ethanol Races To First Victory
The Camping World Grand Prix at The Glen is the first IndyCar Series win for Team Ethanol. Ryan Hunter-Reay took the No. 17 Rahal…
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Biotech Rules In U.S.
American growers have adopted genetically engineered (GE) crops widely since their introduction in 1996, especially corn hybrids and soybean and cotton varieties, according to…
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Beans In ’08: Good Time To Be Late
A soybean crop planted after floodwaters recede still has a chance to make a profitable yield, says an Extension agronomist. “Farmers who plant in…
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Focus On Manure Benefits
Are your growers looking for ways to reduce their fertilizer costs? Of course they are, and one way is to incorporate manure in their…
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Power Off The Cob
One Minnesota ethanol company plans to shell out funds to make the switch from natural gas as its energy source to corn cobs. …
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Flood Relief Bill Approved
Good news for Midwest retailers and their grower-customers: A new supplemental spending bill that includes $2.65 billion for Midwestern flood relief has been signed…
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Bogus Products Cause Concern In EU
The use of fake or illegal substances to treat crops is growing throughout Europe at an alarming rate, according to agriculture experts, putting people’s…
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Keep NH3 On Tracks
Ag retailers can help in the fight to keep anhydrous ammonia (NH3) rail shipments. The railroads are mandated by the U.S. Congress in…
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Corn Changing Ag Landscape
Demand for biofuels, grain, and farm land is driving a revolution in American agriculture, a Purdue agricultural economist says. Purdue’s Wallace Tyner says the…
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Ethanol Co-Products Eyed As Fillers In Plastics
Two university researchers are looking at dried distillers grains as a possible component in plastics, according to Science Daily. "A co-product of ethanol production…
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