Missouri Governor Jay Nixon traveled down to the southwest corner of the state to congratulate world champion soybean producer Kip Cullers who broke his previous record yet again with 160.6 bushels per acre on his 2010 test fields. “Agriculture is the backbone of Missouri’s economy, and growers like Kip Cullers are the reason why,” said Governor Nixon. “Missouri farmers feed, …
New Registrations for BASF Products
BASF Crop Protection recently received a couple of new registrations. Stamina® F3 HL fungicide seed treatment has received EPA registration for commercial seed treatment use on wheat and barley. Stamina F3 HL is applied at the rate of 1 oz. per 100 lbs. of seed and contains no color, allowing seed-treating companies the ability to add their own color. Available …
New BASF Top Plots Video
My good buddy Kip Cullers of Purdy, MO is the latest star of the BASF Top Plots video series. Known in farming circles as a “soybean celebrity,” Cullers has established world records for soybean production at 139 bushels per acre in 2006 and 154 bushels per acre in 2007. He’s also placed numerous times in the National Corn Growers Association …
Busy BASF
Playing catch-up here on news from the past week out of BASF Crop Protection First, the company recently released “Top Plots: Episode 2” starring award-winning corn and soybean farmer Gary Porter of Mercer, Missouri. In the video, Porter shares how he began farming with his father in the 1970’s in an area not known for deep fertile crop ground – …
BASF Survey Identifies Grower Concerns
What causes farmers the most headaches? That’s what BASF Crop Protection set out to determine in a survey they recently completed and released at the Ag Media Summit in St. Paul earlier this week. More than 600 corn, hay, soybean and wheat growers from 44 states participated in the survey, which questioned them about their concerns about the future and …
BASF Launches Top Plots Video Series
BASF has launched a video series called Top Plots on YouTube. What do you think? BASF announces launch of “Top Plots” vlog featuring growers around the country telling stories of life on the farm. Episode 1: In this first installment of the Top Plots Video Series, watch as David Hartz shares: – This history of his family farm. – His …
Soybean Superstar Speaks at BASF Seminar
You can never get enough of the always entertaining World Soybean Yield Champion Kip Cullers. During the BASF Science Behind Soybeans seminar at the 2010 Commodity Classic on Wednesday, Kip talked about the recent trip he took to Brazil and what he learned there. “The reason I went to Brazil is because, if you want to learn something, you got …
2009 FinOvation Awards
Once again this year I had the pleasure of attending the Farm Industry News (FIN) FinOvation Awards banquet at the National Farm Machinery Show. FinOvation awards go to the most innovative products coming to the market, based on Farm Industry News readers’ interest Among the award winners this year was New Holland’s BB9000 Series large square balers. New Holland’s Bob …
Zimfo Bytes
Syngenta announced that its genetically modified corn traits MIR162 and Bt11xGA21 are now fully approved for cultivation in Brazil. Van Beek Natural Science, L.L.C. has hired Steve Schumacher as a Territory Sales Manager for Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New York, and western Pennsylvania. When faced with the challenge of preparing for next year’s crop, weed control planning done now can …