The 2013 Farm Progress Show is underway in Decatur, Illinois. It was my pleasure to sit down and chat with Matt Jungmann, Show Manager and talk about the what’s up here this year, including the new air conditioned media tent sponsored by BASF, and that there are no field demonstrations thanks to the cooler temperatures experienced earlier this summer. …
BASF DPM is a Gator
Dr. Brianne Reeves with BASF Crop Protection has a DPM from the University of Florida – that would be a plant doctor, not a foot doctor. We interviewed the lovely and talented Dr. Reeves a couple of times this year but I never knew she was a fellow Gator until last week when she talked to the Southern Media Symposium …
BASF Southern Crop Protection
BASF technical experts Luke Bozeman and Dr. Gary Fellows shared the latest in BASF crop solutions for southern growers at the Southern Ag Media Symposium last week at RTP headquarters. Gary talked about BASF fungicides and how they can help combat disease problems in southern crops, like target spot in cotton which was just identified a few years ago in …
BASF and the Southern Acre
To paraphrase Spiderman, with great research dollars comes great responsibility – something that the Crop Protection division of BASF, The Chemical Company, takes very seriously. “Our division is one of many divisions of BASF and one of the smaller divisions, but we have continuously gotten the highest amount of R&D dollars for our work,” says Ulf Groeger, BASF Crop Protection …
BASF Hosts SWSS Weed Contest
BASF had the honor of hosting the 34th annual Southern Weed Science Society Weed Contest this year at headquarters in North Carolina. “It’s where new and prospective weed scientists working on their Masters or PhDs with various universities are here for a contest,” said BASF’s Dr. Dan Westberg. That contest included everything from weed and herbicide identification, to problem solving …
Answering Consumer Questions about GMOs
The agricultural biotechnology companies that develop genetically modified seeds (GMO) have united to launch a broad, new initiative to provide accurate information and answer the toughest questions about GMOs and how our food is grown. GMO Answers is produced by the members of The Council for Biotechnology Information, which includes BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences LLC, DuPont, Monsanto Company and …
Visiting BASF at RTP
I was so excited this week to be able to visit the U.S. headquarters of BASF Ag Products in Research Triangle Park, NC for the first time. The occasion was the BASF Southern Media Symposium, which also coincided with the Southern Weed Science Society‘s annual contest for college students majoring in weed science, hosted by BASF this year. I learned …
New Online Resource About GMOs
The agricultural biotechnology companies that develop genetically modified seeds (GMO) are coming together to launch a broad, new initiative to provide accurate information and answer the toughest questions about GMOs and how our food is grown. GMO Answers is a new conversation, public Q&A, and central online resource for information on GMOs, their background, use in agriculture, and research and …
BASF at Peanut Growers Conference
BASF has always been a big supporter of the Southern Peanut Growers Conference and so has Becker Underwood – but this year the two were a single team together. “With the acquisition of Becker Underwood, VAULT as a peanut inoculant is a very important product we’re looking forward to launching from the BASF platform,” said southeast BASF rep Chris Maurer …
BASF Growing Today for Tomorrow Video
One of our most popular ZimmCast’s ever was an interview we did in 2010 with BASF’s Paul Rea about the company’s really cool video “One Hungry Planet,” which has been seen by over 100,000 people. Now BASF has done it again with another cool video “Growing Today for Tomorrow” which illustrates how today’s farmers are producing more food with less …