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Precision Ag News 12/30
Even in an unpredictable year, the innovative Agrisure® traits portfolio delivered strong in-field performance across the Midwest. The portfolio offers numerous proven solutions for growers striving to protect their corn’s genetic yield potential from common pests. Agrisure Duracade trait stacks feature novel, alternate modes of action to help preserve trait durability and delay insect adaptation for long-term field health, yielding …
John Deere Introduces New Combines
Farmers can choose from two new John Deere combines as they look toward harvest in 2021. The company is introducing the X9 1000 and X9 1100 combines, as well as new front end products. Harvesting Product Manager Matt Badding compared the new X9 1100 combine to the current S790 model. “When we’re talking about high yielding, high moisture corn, we …
Industry Ag News 12/29
The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services hosted a virtual event to announce the release of Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025. The latest edition of the guidelines was built upon Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2015-2020, with updates grounded in the scientific reviews of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, along with comments received from the public and …
Animal Ag News 12/28
The nation’s largest union for meatpacking workers and the association representing meat producers joined forces to urge all 50 U.S. governors to urgently prioritize COVID-19 vaccination for frontline meat and poultry workers across the United States, in accordance with official Centers for Disease Control guidance. In a new joint letter to governors, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union …
Thank God It’s Christmas
This year our Christmas message comes from a relatively unknown but very appropriate Christmas song by Queen called Thank God It’s Christmas. These lyrics have never been so true: “Oh my friends it’s been a long hard year – But now it’s Christmas, Thank God it’s Christmas.” We here at ZimmComm are especially grateful to God this Christmas after this …
Merry Christmas 2020 & Happy New Year from NCGA
The National Corn Growers Association has a video for you as we get ready for Christmas and the New Year.
Season’s Greetings from Alltech
We wish you and your family a healthy, happy holiday season. Please enjoy this musical gift, featuring winners of the Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition performing Christmas classics. May the new year bring you peace, joy and all that makes your heart sing! Click here for some world class holiday music. Since 2006, the Alltech Celebration of Song, along with Dr. …
Holiday Greetings from IFAJ
Here are a couple of excerpts from International Federation of Agricultural Journalists President, Lena Johansson. She shares the news that the Denmark IFAJ Congress 2021 will be virtual like this year and we all hope we can meet in person in 2022! Here’s the caption from the photo: “Winter in Sweden: Rudolph with friends, no doubt on their way to …
Precision Ag News 12/23
John Deere has entered into an allied distribution agreement with Smart Guided Systems to sell and support its Smart-Apply Intelligent Control System through the John Deere dealer channel in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. For much of the past century, the invasive pink bollworm wreaked havoc in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico – inflicting tens of millions of …