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Coalition Pushes For E85 Legislation
A broad coalition is encouraging U.S. House of Representatives leadership to advance E85 fuel infractructure legislation. In a first-of-a-kind effort,…
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Solid Year For Tech
By most accounts, 2007 was an interesting year for agricultural technology. Surveys of retail technology adoption that CropLife® conducted in…
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Testing Switchgrass, Sorghum For Biofuels
Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. will trial improved switchgrass cultivars and high-biomass sorghum hybrids with Range Fuels, Inc. to learn…
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The Phantom Menace
To be fair, I’m certain that every person reading this column thinks their dad is (or was) a bit odd…
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The Risky Business Of Fertilizer
With record plantings, 2008 was expected to be a boom time for fertilizer dealers. But not all realized the promise…
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Careful Controllers
View the latest technology offered with controllers from suppliers such as AGCO Global Technologies, Raven Industries, and Trimble. EZ-Boom 2010, Trimble…
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Invisible Force
Not long ago, a technology known as radio frequency identification, or RFID, burst onto the scene as the ultimate answer…
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An Innovative Legacy
Charlie Balmer, application pioneer and founder/president of Valmar Airflo Inc., died Sept. 14 after battling cancer. He left behind a…
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The Fight For Share
As corn acreage grew in 2007, custom applicators went along for the ride. According to data from the 2007 CropLife…
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Pioneer Simplifies Hybrid Naming System
Growers now will be able to quickly understand specific information about new corn hybrids from Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business,…
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Beck’s Releases Three New Soybeans
Beck’s Hybrids is offering three new Ignite herbicide-tolerant soybean varieties. Beck 284LL, Beck 334LL, and Beck 376LL soybeans can be…
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Saving Through Scouting
Dr. Arthur Lange, Trimble Navigation Agriculture division; Scott Shearer, University of Kentucky; and WITH the recent ethanol boom, many growers…