2025 Tech Hub Live

Farm Foundation Hosts Farm Policy Forum

Cindy Zimmerman

While the Kamala Harris/Donald Trump debate took the spotlight this week, Farm Foundation hosted a forum on Monday that focused more specifically on the farm policy of each party’s candidate. Moderated by Kristina Peterson with The Wall Street Journal, The Agricultural Platforms of the Candidates for President of the United States featured Kip Tom, Farmers and Ranchers for Trump Coalition, …

Audio, Farm Foundation, Farm Policy

NK Offers 12 New Corn Hybrids for 2025

Cindy Zimmerman

With a decade of groundbreaking investments, NK is bringing stronger corn genetics and herbicide traits combined with enhanced testing to the farm faster than ever with the new 2025 NK Corn Hybrids. NK corn product manager Matt Dolch was at the recent Farm Progress Show to talk about the new hybrids. “We have an excellent new lineup here for 2025. …

Agribusiness, Audio, Corn, Farm Progress Show, Seed, Syngenta

Ethanol Report From Farm Progress Show

Cindy Zimmerman

It was a beautiful week in Boone, Iowa for the Farm Progress Show, the nation’s largest outdoor ag show. It is a show that the Renewable Fuels Association always attends because it brings out farmers from all over the ethanol-producing part of the country to see what’s new in the industry. RFA displayed its custom Flex Fuel Plug-in Hybrid Electric …

Audio, Ethanol, Farm Progress Show, RFA

Syngenta Offers Better Yield as the Better Deal

Cindy Zimmerman

Syngenta’s theme at the Farm Progress Show last week was Better Yield is the Better Deal, which technical development lead Dean Grossnickle explains is putting the right products on that acre to maximize yield, maximize performance and maximize that return on investment. “So it all starts with that weed control platform, putting down a product that is going to the …

Agribusiness, AgWired Precision, Audio, Crop Protection, Farm Progress Show, Fungicide, Herbicide, Syngenta

GHX 2.0 with Cropwise AI Offers Answers

Cindy Zimmerman

At Farm Progress Show last week, Golden Harvest/GHX celebrated the launch of the GHX™ 2.0 app with new Cropwise™ AI, which gives users the ability to ask and get answers to the toughest product and agronomic questions while simplifying the way they manage data, according to Justin Welch, Syngenta Seeds, Head of Decision Ag. “Two years ago we were here …

AgWired Precision, AI, Audio, Golden Harvest, Seed, Syngenta

Alliance Seeks to Control Weeds, Not Farming

Cindy Zimmerman

The Modern Ag Alliance, led by Bayer, was launched earlier this year to advocate for farmers’ access to safe and effective pesticides. The coalition of over 85 agricultural groups supports science-based regulation and labeling of crop protection tools that are essential for food production and sustainability and their rallying cry is “Control Weeds Not Farming.” Bayer sponsored a panel at …

Agribusiness, AgWired Precision, Audio, Bayer, Corn, Crop Protection, Farm Progress Show

Future is Bright for Syngenta Seeds

Cindy Zimmerman

The head of North America Seeds for Syngenta is pleased with the latest innovations in their brand offerings and looking forward to future advancements. “We’re really looking forward to 2025 and 2026 being a really innovative year set of years for Syngenta,” said Erik Boeck during an interview at Farm Progress Show this week. “We introduced a new worm stack …

Audio, Farm Progress Show, Seed, Syngenta

Syngenta Excited For New SCN Seed Treatment

Cindy Zimmerman

At Farm Progress Show this week, Syngenta was promoting its highly anticipated seed treatment for soybeans and cotton using TYMIRIUM® technology, called Victrato. With approval by EPA for registration anticipated by the 2025 growing season, the new seed treatment will introduce targeted technology to stop nematodes, Sudden Death Syndrome, and Cotton Root Rot without harming beneficial organisms. “Its wheelhouse is …

AgWired Precision, Audio, Cotton, Farm Progress Show, Soybean, Syngenta, Technology

Ayrstone® Announces Higher-speed AyrMesh® HubDuo

Cindy Zimmerman

Ayrstone® announces availability of a new higher-speed AyrMesh® Hub – the AyrMesh® HubDuo. Thousands of farmers and ranchers across the United States and Canada have already discovered how easy it is to have an outdoor WiFi network on their property with Ayrstone AyrMesh products. The new AyrMesh HubDuo is the first Hub to use dual-band technology to deliver very high-speed …

AgWired Animal, AgWired Precision, Audio, Internet, Precision Agriculture