Miloud Araba is the head of technical services for the Enogen group at Syngenta. This week he spoke at the Corn Utilization Technology Conference, talking about the enzyme technology that creates corn grown for ethanol. Araba says that Enogen is working with its longtime partner, Quad County Corn Processors to introduce Cellerate, a new process technology designed to enable dry grind …
John Deere to Offer Nutrient Application Products
John Deere dealers in North America will now sell and support the nutrient application products 360 Y-DROP and 360 UNDERCOVER. The announcement came this week after an agreement between Deere & Company and 360 Yield Center. “This innovative application technology from 360 Yield Center,” says John May, president, agricultural solutions and chief information officer, John Deere, “helps to improve timing …
Forbes Media Hosts AgTech Summit
Forbes Media will be hosting its second AgTech Summit on July 13-14, 2016 in Salinas Valley California. More than 500 of the brightest and most entrepreneurial minds will be attending this two-day, invitation-only event, hoping to tackle some of agriculture’s greatest challenges. The event is expected to bring about lively debate and offer great networking opportunities. It will also be …
Potatoes USA Inspires International Chefs
Potatoes USA brought 21 chefs from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines on a reverse trade mission (RTM) to the U.S. to learn about U.S. potatoes and products, as well as new and creative ways to put them on menus back home. The RTM began with potato training in …
GreenStone Farm Credit Teams With Ag Incubator
GreenStone Farm Credit Services recently announced that the community and agricultural lender has made a $25,000 contribution to the Great Lakes Ag-Tech Business Incubator, a non-profit organization that focuses on helping farmers and entrepreneurs rapidly commercialize their ag-technology machinery, equipment or software innovations. The Incubator will utilize the financial contribution by providing business startup services to clients. GreenStone will also …
Nebraska Woos Biobased Companies
Nebraska is ramping up its bio-based partnerships and wooing new companies to move to the state. According to a recent Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED), bioscience companies employ more than 16,000 people in the state with the industry growing at a faster pace than the national average. For instance, several global and national companies are already located in Nebraska, …
R+K Shakes Up Staff
Rhea + Kaiser (R+K) has promoted a team member in the Public Relations (PR) department and added three new staffers. Amy McEvoy moves to the position of Account Director-Public Relations/Associate Public Relations Director. She will now be responsible for offering strategic direction and overseeing all PR for the Bayer account, in addition to PR and digital staff management and agency responsibilities. …
Bayer and Planetary Resources Intend to Collaborate
Bayer has signed memorandum of understanding with aerospace technology company Planetary Resources. The document says Bayer intends to purchase data from Planetary Resources for the purpose of creating new agricultural products and improving existing ones. Using the combined technologies from the two companies, farmers can time their irrigation systems much better to save water, receive planting date recommendations and re-planting advice, …
John Deere Upgrades Precision Options
John Deere is offering precision growers a few new tools for their toolbox. The company has just announced the introduction of two new AutoTrac guidance products to its lineup. These products were designed to help row crop producers and ag service providers navigate fields more accurately when spraying during post emergence. The AutoTrac Vision assists the operator with the use of …
2017 Looks Promising at John Deere
The growing season for 2017 will bring about some promising new additions to John Deere‘s product line up. Available next spring is the new MaxEmerge 5e row units for a variety of Deere planters, including the mini-hopper and DB planters. MaxEmerge 5e row units will improve seeding population accuracy when it operating on a curve– up to 20 percent improvement in …