Farmers Business Network: ‘Crazy, Stupid’ . . . to Ignore By Eric Sfiligoj|November 6, 2017 As I write this column, our group has just returned from our annual gathering of industry experts. Known […]
CropLife Retail Week: Farm Bill Expired: ARA CEO Breaks Down What’s Next for Ag Retail By Eric Sfiligoj|October 9, 2026
CAST Names Former USDA Chief Economist Dr. Joseph Glauber 2026 Recipient of the CAST Lifetime Achievement Award By Council for Agricultural Science and Technology|October 8, 2026
The 2017 CropLife 100 Preview By Eric Sfiligoj|November 6, 2017 Every year about this time, as autumn begins to give way to winter and the harvest numbers start […]
Precision Agriculture: Visualizing the Future By Paul Schrimpf|November 3, 2017 I wrote this article the morning after the completion of the second annual PrecisionAg Vision Conference from my […]
2017 CropLife 100: Some Good, More Bad By Eric Sfiligoj|October 30, 2017 A few weeks ago, I reported that the majority of ag retailers in the 2017 CropLife 100 survey […]
BASF Enters Seed with Bayer Purchase By Eric Sfiligoj|October 23, 2017 For BASF, Friday, October 13, 2017, turned into a lucky day of sorts. After spending many months on […]
CropLife 100 Ag Retailers: Feeling Better About 2018 By Eric Sfiligoj|October 16, 2017 As fall speeds along, the harvest is steadily moving forward. In addition, here at the CropLife magazine offices, […]
Ag Retailers Need to Commit to Excellence in Wake of FBN Threat By Paul Schrimpf|October 3, 2017 It can be a little bit dangerous when you rely on informal reader surveys and polls to help […]
The New State of Ag Retail Distribution By Eric Sfiligoj|October 2, 2017 Virtually everyone who watches the ag retail marketplace on a regular basis agrees that it is undergoing a […]
Explaining Agriculture to Consumers Using Emotions, Not Science By Eric Sfiligoj|October 2, 2017 According to book author Michele Payn, Principal at Cause Matters Corp., the U.S. agricultural industry has a serious […]
The Economic Outlook for Agriculture: Somewhere Between Good and Bad By Eric Sfiligoj|September 25, 2017 With all the uncertainty surrounding the ag economic today, several analysts have struggled to predict exactly where the […]
The Crop Protection/Seed Industry Update on Mergers By Eric Sfiligoj|September 18, 2017 The past few years, the agricultural industry has been undergoing a wave of consolidation, on virtually every level. […]
Major Companies Are Spreading Ag’s Good News By Eric Sfiligoj|September 11, 2017 The various companies that do business in the agricultural industry all work towards a common goal – helping […]
InfoAg 2017: A ‘Glass Half-Full Mentality’ By Paul Schrimpf|September 1, 2017 I first met Jeremy Wilson of CropIMS in Illinois back in the early 2000s. I was desperately searching […]
The Dicamba Dispute: The Fickle Finger-Pointing of Fate By Eric Sfiligoj|September 1, 2017 In life, whenever something doesn’t go according to plan or mistakes are made, the end result inevitably turns […]
Setting Records at MAGIE 2017 By Eric Sfiligoj|August 28, 2017 For the past 36 years now, numerous ag retailers and their suppliers have made it a regular practice […]
MAGIE 2017: The Year of New Products By Eric Sfiligoj|August 21, 2017 By their nature, Midwest AG Industries Expositions (MAGIEs) tend to have unofficial themes associated with them. For example, […]
The Top 10 Crop Protection Companies, Post-Mega Mergers By Eric Sfiligoj|August 14, 2017 Everyone loves a good Top 10 list. In fact, some prominent celebrities such as David Letterman spent much […]
A Message to Ag Retailers: Do Tell Your Good Stories By Eric Sfiligoj|July 26, 2017 As the daughter of a peanut farmer, Krysta Harden, Chief Sustainability Officer for DuPont Crop Protection, understands the […]
The 2017 Ambassadors of Respect Come from Around the Globe By Eric Sfiligoj|July 24, 2017 After a week of fun, enjoying food, sights, and company information, DuPont Crop Protection representatives and their Environmental […]
