Veteran’s Carbon Holdings (VCH) announced it will distribute $1.1 billion in direct payments to U.S. farmers and landowners who bury organic carbon over the next nine years. Established in 2024, the newly launched Carbon Development Program provides farmers and landowners across the Midwest and Western United States with an innovative method to generate a great deal of money and substantial annual income, sequestering organic carbon in agricultural soils.
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is pleased to announce that industrial biotech luminaries Drs. Doug Cameron and Chris Guske will be judges for Consider Corn Challenge V. Cameron and Guske have been instrumental in discovery, development, scale-up, financing and on-going management of numerous biotech technologies. Their participation as judges brings decades of expertise in identifying and commercializing successful products to the Consider Corn Challenge V winner selection process.
As part of Bayer Crop Science efforts to deliver an even more personalized, insight-driven experience for farmers ahead of a decade of unprecedented innovation in seed and crop protection, Channel is unveiling several new initiatives to deliver more performance and value to the farmer. To provide an even deeper level of support and service, Channel will introduce a Sales Agronomist role in Summer 2025. Channel is also launching a new monthly Profit Planning series featuring subject matter experts who will tackle timely, relevant topics aimed at helping farmers optimize every acre.
Built on the same Axiom AI infrastructure and leveraging GROWERS’ proprietary transaction and loyalty data, the Predictive Insights Engine synthesizes years of historical behavior with current activity to generate actionable insights, including churn prediction, customer engagement scoring, and product adoption forecasting. These insights are now being integrated directly into the GROWERS Loyalty Platform, enabling sales teams, marketers, and executives to anticipate customer behavior and take proactive action.
Performance Nutrition, a specialty provider of innovative agricultural and turf fertilizers and crop protection products, announced today that it has expanded its Prudent line of urea phosphite-based fertilizers with the commercial launch of two new products. Both products are now available for purchase through Performance Nutrition’s distribution partners throughout the United States.
Pro Farm Group has received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) coveted Green Chemistry Challenge Award for Design of Safer and Degradable Chemicals.
The Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) Hall of Fame welcomed two remarkable individuals during the 2025 Conservation in Action Tour on May 7 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Dwayne Beck, Ph.D., and David Brandt (awarded posthumously) were the first farmers inducted into the CTIC Hall of Fame. Their lifetime of work has advanced conservation agriculture and inspired generations of producers to be more efficient, profitable, and sustainable.
Addressing the International Grains Council conference in London, CropLife International President and CEO Emily Rees called for global value-chain cooperation in the face of geopolitical volatility, focusing on the core role of plant-science technology as the driver to meeting future food productivity needs.
Sollum Technologies is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Optimal, a leader in AI greenhouse control. This collaboration integrates Sollum’s 100 percent dynamic LED lighting with Optimal’s AI climate and irrigation control platform, enabling growers to precisely execute their desired growing strategy under rapidly changing weather conditions.
Southern Illinois University (SIU) will serve as host for research presentations on Tuesday, June 17 at the SIU-Carbondale University Farms. They plan to focus on research funded by the Illinois Nutrient Research and Education Council (NREC).
