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Operator Of The Year: Heartland’s Best
By all accounts, Kyle Jones, a custom applicator with Heartland Coop in Slater, IA, is not your typical worker. In…
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Seed Plant Opening Delayed
The opening of a $100 million seed corn plant near Independence. IA, will be delayed for about a year. According…
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The Long And Short Of It
As we were compiling the final pages of our annual Retail Outlook issue, retail managers were still anticipating end-of-year orders…
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Monsanto, Valent Enhance Soybean Efforts
New for 2009, Valent U.S.A. Corp. and Monsanto Co. announced an enhanced Roundup Rewards offering to help your grower-customers maintain…
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Calibration Service Offered
Retailers concerned about calibrating a data logger or chart recorders can now get a free consultation. Those using data loggers…
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NPK Pricing: A Prevailing Concern
In mid-December, the CropLife eNews Retail Chatterbox question asked which of the following topics — fertilizer prices, seed costs, crop…
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Cullers Gets 100+ Yields In All Bean Fields
Kip Cullers of K&K Farms in Purdy, MO, impressed the agricultural world the previous two years by smashing soybean production…
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Reflections On 2008 — Syngenta’s View
From a weed control standpoint, the 2008 planting season is something that many growers would like to forget. With the…
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Seed.Pro Streamlines Bulk Seed Processing
The new Seed.Pro 400-bushel bulk seed delivery system helps streamline planting with an innovative weather-tight design that allows bulk seed…
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Vilsack Named Ag Secretary Nominee
President-elect Barack Obama has selected Tom Vilsack, former Iowa governor, as his choice for agriculture secretary. "Iowa is the ethanol…
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Biofuels Mandate Tough To Meet
Reuters reports that the U.S. government’s top energy forecasting agency annual forecast has mixed news about the country’s ability to…
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Command Central For Financial Help
An innovative, university research-based Web site has new resources to help Americans — including you, your co-workers, your growers, and…
