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Food Prize Symposium Focuses On Small Farmers

October 11, 2010

By Philip Brasher, DesMoinesRegister.com The world’s poorest farmers may start getting some of the attention and dollars that the U.S.…

October 11, 2010

If you regularly scan newspapers, TV news or the Internet, you know that one of the persistent problems facing the…

October 11, 2010

Initial yield data for Dow AgroSciences’ SmartStax hybrids shows positive performance of the trait technology. “Dow AgroSciences believes the best…

October 8, 2010

For the second year in a row, Syngenta was ranked among the top biotechnology and pharmaceutical employers according to a…

October 8, 2010

Illinois officials are urging farmers not to apply post-harvest fertilizer too early. The Illinois Department of Agriculture and the Illinois…

October 8, 2010

Máquinas Agrícolas Jacto S.A. and Raven Industries has formed a strategic partnership in which Raven will be Jacto’s precision ag…

October 8, 2010

A group of agricultural scientists reported in a recent issue of the Journal Science that corn that has been genetically…

October 8, 2010

by Dan Charles, NPR Fifty years of records from cornfields in five Midwestern states show that genetically modified corn has…

October 8, 2010

Soybeans engineered to be resistant to the herbicides dicamba and glyphosate performed well in field tests with weeds that have…

October 8, 2010

University of Wisconsin agronomist Joe Lauer says don’t forget the basics when it comes to ordering seed corn. He stresses…

October 6, 2010

Since returning from the annual Mid America CropLife Association meeting, I’m thinking about the generational divide. At the event, one…

October 6, 2010

For some in the agricultural community, Becker Underwood, Inc. of Ames, IA, is fairly well known. After all, the company…