For the third year in a row, BASF has helped kick off the Commodity Classic with its “Science Behind” symposium. This year the symposium focused on Kixor™ herbicide, which BASF is introducing this year. Helping to explain the science behind Kixor was Bryan Young, professor of Weed Science and Agronomy at Southern Illinois University who talked about why new chemistries …
Looking Ahead To A Classic Time in Texas
In just over a week corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers will be getting together in Grapevine, TX for Commodity Classic and you’ll find Cindy and myself there once again. I hope you’ve got your reservations in since this looks to be a big one. Actually, it’ll be just like “family” as an expected 4,500+ growers and their families and …
New BASF Leadership
BASF Corporation this week announced the appointment of Markus Heldt as President, Crop Protection, BASF. Heldt, who held the position of Group Vice President, North America for the past three years, will relocate to the company’s global headquarters in Limburgerhof, Germany. Heldt is pictured here (right) with Michael Heinz, the man he is succeeding as president of crop protection, during …
Headline Receives Plant Health Label
BASF announced today that Headline® fungicide is the first fungicide to have EPA approved Plant Health claims on its label. State approvals are currently pending. “We believe this is a new precedent for the agricultural community,” said Nevin McDougall, Group Vice President, North America, BASF. “Agriculture must rely on innovative products such as Headline to meet the increasing global demand …
Headline Voted Best No-Till Product of 2008
The readers of No-Till Farmer magazine voted on the products that performed best in their no-till operations in 2008 – and the “No-Till Product of the Year” winner is – Headline fungicide from BASF. No-till products in 11 specific categories were also selected as the best of their field for 2008. Each of the products and their manufacturers were honored …
BASF and Monsanto Working Together on Weed Control
BASF and Monsanto Company have joined forces to accelerate the development of next-generation of dicamba-based weed control chemistry products. The partnership will be working to develop crops that are resistant to both Roundup® agricultural herbicides and dicamba to deliver significant on-farm benefits to growers. According to Monsanto Global Chemistry lead Sean Gardner, “Combining a second type of herbicide resistance with …
Representing Aerial Applicators
After following along on AgWired last week you may have a better understanding of the National Agricultural Aviation Association but after listening to this week’s ZimmCast you’ll have an even better one. That’s because I interviewed NAAA Executive Director, Andrew Moore and he tells us all about it. Andrew has a farm background which fits in very nicely with the …
Planes For Pilots
What better thing to give away in your booth than a balsa wood glider, especially if you’re exhibiting at the Ag Aviators convention? That’s one of the items BASF had in their booth and they were very popular. This young guy was definitely in to it and I just had to share the photo with you. It’s one of many …
NAAA Trade Show Walk Through
My work at my first ever National Agricultural Aviation Association convention is now completed although I’ll be featuring an interview with Andrew Moore, Executive Director, in next Monday’s ZimmCast. I really enjoyed the meeting and learned a lot about a segment of agribusiness that I wasn’t very familiar with. The dry Las Vegas air and smoky casino we’re located in …
Cropdusters.biz Babes
For some reason the Cropdusters.biz booth was one of the busier booths at the NAAA trade show. Chelsi Rae, Carrie and Dainela were working in the booth with founder David Duch, (not pictured). David is an ag pilot himself and he says that he started Cropdusters.biz to make many of the novelty items connected with the business available. Apparently the …