Paul Schrimpf
Paul Schrimpf is Director of Marketing and Communications at AgGateway and served as an editor at Farm Chemicals/CropLife from 1998 to 2022.
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A Dandelion Break
This is by far the most bizarre set of circumstances I’ve seen going into a new year in my decade of covering this industry.…
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Ship Shape
The high tide raises all boats, and that was certainly true for the good ship “Ag Technology” on the seas of agriculture in 2008.…
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A Tie That Binds
Eric Sfiligoj and I spent a lot of time preparing and talking about what might happen at our PACE® Advisory Council Meeting last month.…
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Leading With Service
The past two years have seen a dramatic increase of cooperative mergers in the Midwest, as once fierce competitors find benefit in merging to…
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2008: An Ag Odyssey
Well, another season is almost behind us. In agriculture, there’s really no such thing as a “typical” year, but if there was ever a…
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Effingham-Clay: Rethinking Everything
If you’ve given consideration to the idea that the traditional approach to retail management is something that is broken and needs to be fixed,…
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Big Idea; Logistics
I have to admit it … I’ve never really been the idea guy. Being the “idea guy” is a dangerous place to live. To…
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Taking The Helm
Post-patent crop protection manufacturers went for a roller coaster ride in 2008. Increases in crop protection product demand worldwide, coupled with China’s shift in…
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Solid Year For Tech
By most accounts, 2007 was an interesting year for agricultural technology. Surveys of retail technology adoption that CropLife® conducted in July and September this…
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Invisible Force
Not long ago, a technology known as radio frequency identification, or RFID, burst onto the scene as the ultimate answer to accurate inventory control.…
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