CropLife.com: Top 10 Stories from 2018

By CropLife Staff|December 31, 2018

What a year’s it’s been for ag retailers. In 2018, dicamba and Monsanto dominated headline news. Meanwhile, e-commerce continued to pressure retailers from all sides. And the lastest technology — from application equipment to new crop inputs — gave retailers even more solutions for their customers.

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10 | E-commerce in Ag Retail: Big New Trend or Flash in the Pan?
May 21: Does all of this interest in e-commerce signal a big new trend, or, will e-commerce become yet another ‘flash in the pan’ poised to do little more than temporarily distract us from more important matters?
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9 | Monsanto Previews Current, Future Pipeline Offerings
March 15: The crop protection/seed company has multiple new products in the works, for all major crops.
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8 | Dicamba Discussion Dominates IFCA
January 19: The Illinois Fertilizer & Chemical Association annual meeting featured plenty of talk around dicamba’s issues during 2017.
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7 | Rebate Requirement Reveals the Dark Side of FieldView
January 8: FieldView’s paid offering, FieldView Plus, is becoming more deeply ingrained in the already complex-as-a-Rubik’s Cube rebate game.
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6 | CropLife Magazine Unveils Annual Ranking of Top 100 U.S. Ag Retailers
December 3: CropLife magazine publishes its annual CropLife 100, a listing of the largest U.S. ag retailers ranked by sales.
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5 | Farm Progress 2018 Photo Gallery
August 30: A photo gallery of some of our favorite shots from the 2018 Farm Progress Show in Boone, IA.
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4 | Photos: Inside Look at ERA Winner Helena Agri-Enterprises (Dillsboro)
November 26: View photo highlights from CropLife IRON's visit to Environmental Respect Award winner Helena Agri-Enterprises Dillsboro (IN).
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3 | Nachurs: Liquid Fertilizer Technology on Full Display
August 9: The CropLife team learns more about the latest technology at Nachurs Alpine Solutions during a visit to the company's production plant in Marion, OH.
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2 | Good-Bye, Monsanto
April 16: CropLife editor Eric Sfiligoj asks whether Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto will likely mean the end of the company name, which would be much to the chagrin of anti-agriculture activists.
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1 | 10 Fertilizer Spreaders for 2018
March 7: Here is a sampling of some of the fertilizer spreaders ag retailers were using during this past growing season.

The slideshow above shows the 10 most-read CropLife.com stories in 2018 in terms of unique pageviews, unveiled in descending order.

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