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CF Industries Seeks To Buy Terra Industries
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. has proposed to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Terra Industries Inc., in a transaction that would create…
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New Wheat Herbicide Approved
New Audit herbicide provides numerous convenient and effective tank-mix options for postemergence broadspectrum broadleaf weed control with high value “spiked performance” for spring and…
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Avicta Evicts Corn Pest
Avicta seed treatment from Syngenta tackles a new corn pest — the nematode. Nematodes have been a pest in cotton and soybeans and increasingly are becoming…
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Agrium Adding Back N Production
Agrium Inc. is making some production moves because of a recent improvement in urea demand. Agrium is in the process of restarting its Fort…
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Fretting Focused On Fertilizer
Fertilizer costs and sales are very much top-of-mind these days for you and your grower-customers. In fact, most of the chatter on the CropLife…
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Audit Ordered For Checkoff Program
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer has officially recommended that USDA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) conduct an audit and, as appropriate, investigation of…
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Balance Flexx Uses Recharge Power
A new corn herbicide, Balance Flexx from Bayer CropScience, provides broadspectrum control, application flexibility, and crop safety. EPA has approved Balance Flexx herbicide, which…
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Lorsban Further Advanced
Lorsban Advanced insecticide from Dow AgroSciences has been approved by EPA. It will replace another product from the manufacturer. The insecticide will replace Lorsban-4E…
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Drought-Tolerant Gene Clears Hurdle
As growers around the world search for innovative new technologies to help them produce more with fewer resources, Monsanto Co. announced Jan. 8 that…
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Pioneer Releases 2009 Hybrids
New genetics and localized testing improve Pioneer Hi-Bred’s corn product lineup. The DuPont business is releasing 96 new Pioneer brand corn products to growers…
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