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AMVAC Expands Insecticide Portfolio
AMVAC Chemical Corp. has completed the acquisition of two insecticide product lines from Bayer CropScience, LLC. The first includes the…
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Rust Makes A Dent
Mississippi lost a tiny portion of its crop to soybean rust last year, but Tom Allen of Mississippi State says…
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Tomorrow’s Leaders
A wave is quickly approaching America’s workforce. Whether that wave impacts U.S. businesses like low tide at Myrtle Beach or…
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4 Economic Hurdles To Cellulosic-Based Biofuels
Apart from the basic problem of market size potential, there is a more fundamental problem in the development of cellulosic-based…
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iPad App Helps Scout For Soybean Aphids
Now is the time to scout for soybean aphids and a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension app can help do…
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Coppock: Nation Is Addicted To Deficit Spending
Government deficit spending is a central point of controversy in economics and politics, with many differing viewpoints. And while debate…
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Happy Birthday, MAGIE!
The summer trade show season is well underway. Across the country, hundreds of ag retailers and their grower-customers are attending…
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Brandt Names New Chief Marketing Officer
Brandt Consolidated, Inc. has named Karl Barnhart to its senior management team as Chief Marketing Officer. Barnhart will lead Brandt’s…
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Grant Helps Anhydrous Ammonia Facilities
EPA has awarded the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS) $30,000 to assist with outreach, education and implementation…
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Monsanto, Bayer CropScience Enter Seed Treatment Agreement
Soybean growers now have access to a biological mode of action to help protect their crop from nematodes — as…
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Leave Me A Loan
It seems as if the shadow of 2008 continues to loom large over the U.S. economy. Just as the general…
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DHS Proposes Ammonium Nitrate Security Program
More than 15 years after a fertilizer bomb was used to blow up a government building in Oklahoma City, killing…