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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Syngenta Considers Price Hike
Syngenta AG, the world’s biggest maker of agricultural chemicals, may raise the price of pesticides by 10 percent next year as record oil increases…
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No-Till Fuels Ethanol Value
Ethanol-based corn may be getting a bum rap, in light of the growing global food crisis, but the biofuel does have value, especially when…
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Brazil OKs Bt Corn
Brazil’s National Biosafety Committee (CNBS) has ratified a decision authorising sales of corn containing Syngenta’s Bt11 (Bacillus thuringiensis) trait for fall armyworm and sugarcane…
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Dow AgroSciences Bean Replant Supply Adequate
Dow AgroSciences and its seed company, Mycogen Seeds, might not be the first company you’d think of when your grower-customers are looking for replacement…
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Nozzle Tackles Tough Canopies
Dense foliage can inhibit proper spray coverage, so Lechler Inc. has designed its new IDK-T ceramic twin flat spray nozzle to enhance actual contact.…
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Floods Endanger 2008 Yields
The cost of this year’s Midwest flooding may end up rivaling that of the 1993 Midwest floods that caused more than $20 billion in…
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Precision Sessions Offered For Users
The 9th International Conference on Precision Agriculture (ICPA) will be held July 20-23 at the Hyatt Tech Center in Denver, CO. A series of…
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Replant Options Uncertain
Midwest U.S. growers with flooded fields may find that soils have been damaged too much to plant this year even if the waters recede…
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Speak Up On Gas Costs
The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) is urging retailers to weigh in on the latest natural gas issue. According to ARA, retailers have the opportunity…
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Earworms Have Sweet Tooth
Recent storms from the Gulf of Mexico have brought not only rains, but also corn earworm moths to Indiana, says a Purdue University expert,…
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