- The Partnership for Ag Resource Management, a nonprofit project, has been working with agricultural retailers for almost a decade to increase sales of products and services that retain nutrients on fields and out of waterways. For the first time this year, the annual survey report incorporated the economic savings of these loss reductions per practice. View the full report for details.
- Agricultural Research Service scientists and their colleagues have discovered a gene that can be used to develop varieties of wheat that will be more resistant to Fusarium Head Blight, a disease that is a major threat both overseas and to the nation’s $10 billion annual wheat crop.
- Growers and applicators who will be planting and spraying Enlist E3™ soybeans in 2020 can join an informational webinar from Corteva Agriscience. Available webinar options (the same content is repeated in each webinar): Friday, April 17 from 8 to 9 a.m. CDT or Monday, May 4 from 8 to 9 a.m. CDT.
- A soil health webinar series has launched as part of the Soil Health Institute’s Healthy Soils for Sustainable Cotton project. New episodes will be offered weekly from now until mid-May on the Institute’s YouTube Channel and Soil Health Training webpage.
- WaterBit, the agricultural technology company specializing in automated precision irrigation, announced that Tony Alvarez has been named the company’s new chief executive officer. Alvarez is an accomplished C-level executive in the IoT and semiconductor spaces. Most recently, he was CEO of Altierre, which specializes in IoT for retail stores.
- IntelinAir is pleased to announce its partnership with the Wabash Heartland Innovation Network (WHIN), whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of IoT technologies in the Wabash Heartland region, support world-class research and education in agriculture and manufacturing technologies, and ultimately to establish the Wabash Heartland as the global epicenter of digital agriculture and next-generation manufacturing.
- The National Association of Conservation Districts sent a letter to Congress requesting additional funding and legislative support for the nation’s nearly 3,000 conservation districts in the next stimulus bills.
- BASF announced it will offer xarvio™ FIELD MANAGER free of charge to farmers in the U.S. and Canada for the 2020 season.
- Crop Enhancement Inc., an innovator of sustainable agrochemical products that protect or enhance crop yields, has raised an $8M Series B financing round led by Spruce Capital Partners/MLS. The funding will be used to support strategic partnership development with agrochemical companies and regional distributors, broaden field trial targets in high-value fruit and vegetable segments, and advance regulatory efforts in the United States, European Union, Brazil, and Central America.
