Management
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EPA Proposes New Drift Labels
EPA has rolled out proposed guidance for new pesticide labeling — including for crop protection products — to reduce off-target spray and dust drift.…
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Business: Taking Stock
Retailers, like growers, are at some level slaves to factors they can’t control, most notably the weather. Given this reality, the retailer’s base business…
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Monsanto Seeks Supreme Court Review
Monsanto Co. asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision to ban the planting of genetically modified alfalfa until an environmental…
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Pesticide Case Facing Review
The American Farm Bureau Federation has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the high court to review a lower court ruling…
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Customers: Growers Cautiously Optimistic
The CropLife 100 dealers have shared their outlooks, but our editors also wanted to gauge what grower-customers are thinking. Short-term, Midwest growers are understandably…
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Market Overview: Recalibration Time
Hindsight is 20/20 goes the old saying, and today’s ag retailers are most definitely seeing things clearly. Considering everything that happened in the years…
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Service Blueprinting
Companies that outmaneuver their competitors by providing new or improved services to customers keep their service development process from being “ad hoc.” These customer-focused…
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Environmental Respect Awards: Turning 20
It was the late 1980s and the environmental movement was clamoring for more scrutiny and tough regulations. Agricultural retailers were feeling the heat from…
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Environmental Respect Awards: Times To Remember
The 2009 Environmental Respect Award winners gathered for a celebration in Washington, DC. View some photo highlights of the trip.
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The Great Transition
As I write this, I am still getting through the “information hangover” that always follows our PACE Advisory Council annual meeting. This was a…
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