- Increased corn rootworm (CRW) pressure is projected to persist in corn crops throughout the Central and Northwest Midwest in 2021. But according to Wyffels Hybrids®, growers can take steps to predict the risk of significant rootworm feeding and protect their crops. The best way to predict rootworm risk the following year is to monitor corn rootworm beetle activity during the growing season, reports Wyffels’ Mitch Heisler, Product Marketing Manager, and Dr. Brent Tharp, Technical Product Manager. AMVAC® offers growers plenty of choices for corn rootworm protection to accommodate a variety of equipment and agronomic needs next year.
- Late Friday, December 4, Kinze and Ag Leader were notified that John Deere filed a lawsuit alleging patent infringement related to True Speed/SureSpeed technology. Kinze and Ag Leader deny all allegations of infringement. This legal action has absolutely no effect on the availability of current Kinze and Ag Leader products.
- House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota announced the introduction of H.R. 8843, which makes an additional 25 million acres available over the next five years for general signup under the Conservation Reserve Program. Instead of a cap, the bill establishes a minimum floor of 50 million CRP acres nationwide.
- GROWMARK recently expanded its partnership with Solinftec to change the way they do business on a broad scale. Solinftec is a Brazilian company with 13 years’ experience developing digital ag solutions for the largest agricultural operations in the world on more than 22 million acres of row crops, sugarcane, coffee and citrus.
- Advanced Biological Marketing® announces a new and novel seed treatment for the row crop industry, AmpliMax™. Based on a metabolite from its Trichoderma line of products, AmpliMax is a biorational seed treatment with SabrEx® metabolite, yeast extract and humates providing outstanding and consistent results in the field. The new product has gone through extensive testing over the years and will be available for use on a wide range of plants including, but not limited to, row crops and cereals.
- Heliae® Agriculture announced the collaboration with WinField® United Canada, an agriculture leader focused on long-term sustainability. This partnership will bring new value to ag retailers through assisting farmers’ transition to regenerative agriculture practices.
- Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC announced its acquisition of the assets of Probe Schedule, LLC to provide its customers with one of the most technologically innovative irrigation water management systems in the world.
- BASF is introducing Renestra insecticide for the 2021 growing season. Consisting of both a pyrethroid and the unique Inscalis® insecticide active ingredients, Renestra insecticide provides knockdown and residual control of a broad-spectrum of soybean pests, including resistant and non-resistant aphids, as well as a variety of other feeding insects.
