Denali Makes Waste into 12 Billion Pounds of Feed and Fertilizer
Denali continued to lead the nation as a recycler of organics in 2024, transforming organic materials into 12 billion pounds of high-quality feed and fertilizer.
According to Denali’s newly released 2024 Sustainability Report, the recycled agriculture-grade products fed nearly 50,000 cattle and enriched more than 100,000 acres of farmland, which helped build resilience for American agriculture, supporting healthy soils, nourishing livestock, and reducing dependency on synthetic fertilizers.
Denali’s work delivered significant impact for farmers across the U.S., including:
● Nourishing more than 50,000 head of cattle by creating 360 million pounds of animal feed;
● Creating 9.6 billion pounds of natural fertilizer that supported more than 100,000 acres of farmland across the U.S. – equivalent to 75,757 football fields;
● Avoiding an estimated 750,000 MTCO₂ metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent through the total impact of creating 2.4 billion pounds of nutrient-rich compost, mulch, and soil amendments; and
● Significantly lowering fertilizer costs for farmers, which comprises 40% of a farmer’s total operating costs for growing corn, according to the National Corn Growers Association.
Denali works with grocers, food manufacturers, municipalities, and foodservice operators to collect organics that would otherwise be sent to the landfill and uses one of the largest mechanical depackaging technology networks in the country, to recover the most clean, recyclable organic material and convert it into agriculture-grade products.
To learn more and review Denali’s 2024 Sustainability Report, click HERE.
MAHA Report Focuses on Science and Research
The Make America Healthy Again Commission released its Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy on Tuesday with more than 120 initiatives to “advance gold-standard science, realign incentives, increase public awareness, and strengthen private-sector collaboration.”
“This strategy represents the most sweeping reform agenda in modern history—realigning our food and health systems, driving education, and unleashing science to protect America’s children and families,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “We are focusing narrowly on nutrition and metabolic health, food quality, cumulative exposures, gut microbiome, precision agriculture, and mental health.”
“America’s farmers and ranchers are at the heart of the solution..to fight chronic disease and protect future generations,” said Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. “USDA’s upcoming regenerative pilot program will address on-farm resource concerns, while also providing farmers with usable, outcomes-based conservation plans. We will also leverage existing funding from research agencies to produce applied science informing farmer decision-making on regenerative agriculture.”
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Zeldin said they will be working with USDA to advance precision agriculture and ensure the safe use of legal crop protection chemicals. “We are accelerating innovative and vetted crop protection products to enhance an American system of agriculture that is already the best in the world,” said Zeldin.
Listen to opening comments from Secretaries Kennedy and Rollins and Administrator Zeldin below:
MAHA Report on Children's Health (16:44)
Industry Ag News 9/8
Golden Harvest Offers New Corn and Soybean Varieties
Golden Harvest has 19 new soybean hybrids and nine new corn hybrids in store for 2026.
“We continue to offer trait choice so nine of those new products are going to be on the Enlist side and 10 of those products are going to be on the XtendFlex side,” said Soybean Product Manager Ryan Dunsbergen. “We’re bringing in these traits, we’re putting on our own proprietary genetics and we’re continuing to bring that to the market for the American farmer.”
Dunsbergen said new products will bring a great deal of versatility and can handle lots of stress. He said Golden Harvest is also proud of portfolio options that offer Peking soybean cyst nematode resistance.
FPS25 Interview with Ryan Dunsbergen, Golden Harvest (3:26)
In addition to the nine new corn hybrids in 2026, Corn Product Manager Rex Gray says looking further ahead, new Durastak corn trait technology that will be available in 2027 has shown a 50 percent increase in root node product and double the increase in root matter, leading to a 9.7 bushel advantage in areas with moderate to severe rootworm infestations.
“With that increased root protection, we’re really going to help growers protect that yield potential that each of those corn hybrids have,” said Gray.
Learn more in this interview from Farm Progress Show.
FPS25 Interview with Rex Gray, Golden Harvest (3:33)
Looking for Event Photos – New or Old?
Looking for photos from past events? Look no more. How about the Collections we’ve created for many events?
I frequently get requests from people who are looking for a specific photo and wonder if I would have it. It could be a picture of someone receiving an award. It could be photos for photo books they’re working on. It could be just wanting to see what they looked like way back then. It could be you need a photo for social media or publications. And we have lots of them since we go back to May of 2005. We have 196 different photo albums (a couple of personal ones snuck in there). You can search them in Flickr or just scroll through the 10 pages of them.
Currently the 266,149 photos have received a total of 50,609,564 views. I don’t know how many of them were downloaded but it’s quite a bit. And the price is right. You can always contact me if you need something and just can’t find it and I’ll do my best.
Precision Ag News 9/5
with the launch of eight new hay tools for 2026 — led by the all-new ZR-2200 self-propelled baler, a next-generation solution built for speed, precision and operator comfort. With a focus on productivity, operator comfort and bale quality, Vermeer is releasing these products to reflect their ongoing commitment to listening to customers and delivering solutions that make a difference in the field.
CruiserMaxx Vibrance Elite Seed Treatment
Syngenta is offering a new cereal seedcare package that should be available for the 2026 growing season. The new CruiserMaxx Vibrance Elite Seed Treatment premix includes five fungicides and an insecticide, bringing two modes of action to combat early season cereal diseases.
“What’s really neat about this is that this will be our first introduction of Vayantis® into the cereal seedcare market, which is an elite pythium product for high pressure pythium areas,” said Bryn Hightower with Syngenta Seedcare.
Hightower said it’s a complete offering for early season insect and disease control, and farmers are excited about the ease of use as it takes away the need for custom mixes and offers one solution in one jug.
Syngenta displayed the product at the 2025 Farm Progress Show.
Syngenta Seedcare product lead Bryn Hightower – Cruiser Maxx Vibrance Elite
FPS25 Interview with Bryn Hightower, Syngenta Seedcare (3:15)
Syngenta Victrato® Seed Treatment Coming Soon
Syngenta is expecting registration of Victrato®, its long-awaited seed treatment for nematode and Sudden Death Syndrome control any day now.
“We should receive registration in September and we intend to launch Victrado in 2026 after we receive registration,” said Syngenta Seedcare Technical Product Lead Dale Ireland at last week’s Farm Progress Show. “Victrato is powered by TYMIRIUM® technology and this is the 11th season that I’ve had this out in the field on soybeans and what Victrato is going to do is deliver the highest level of nematode, Sudden death syndrome, red crown rot, and early season soy foliar disease protection that’s ever been offered from a seed treatment.”
Ireland says Victrato is setting a new level of protection. “The leading competitor in the soybean SDS space, we beat it 91% of the time by nearly 5 bushels under moderate to heavy SDS. And Victrato also beats Saltoro, which is one of our products, 87% of the time by about half that amount. So about 2 1/2 bushels different.”
Victrato® seed treatment will be approved for both soybeans and cotton against nematodes and key yield-robbing diseases, like Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) and Cotton Root Rot (CRR) respectively, as well as provide early-season suppression of foliar soybean diseases.
Learn more in this interview with Ireland.
FPS25 Interview with Dale Ireland, Syngenta Seedcare (3:36)
Land O’Lakes and Local Retailers Join to Fast Track Ag Tech
Land O’Lakes, Inc. today unveiled its participation with local ag retailers in AgRogue Growth Partners, a new initiative aimed at using the cooperative model to fast-track breakthrough technologies for agriculture.
As the Land O’Lakes cooperative system has a long history of driving adoption of the latest ag technologies, Land O’Lakes and a coalition of its retailer-owners will invest up to $7 million in each of 10 to 15 companies focused on improving crop inputs, ag data, supply chain processes, business models and more.
“We believe the key to jumpstarting the adoption of modern ag technologies lives in the partnership and trust between retailers and growers. This platform represents a focused strategy that builds on the strength of Land O’Lakes’ co-op model and our retail owners to assist Radicle Growth in finding, funding and scaling new innovation to help ensure our system remains at the leading edge of ag tech, and U.S. agriculture remains competitive on a global stage,” said Jason Trusley, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Land O’Lakes, Inc.
The new coalition plans to invest in and scale innovative technologies, business models and systems that drive on-farm impact, pool resources to access proprietary ag innovations beyond traditional channels, and accelerate early adoption by leveraging the trusted relationships between participating retailers and farmers.
“Right now, we’re seeing a wave of necessary innovation stall before it reaches the farm gate — often lacking the local trust and infrastructure needed to succeed,” said Brett Bruggeman, chief operating officer and executive vice president of ag business at Land O’Lakes, Inc. “As one of the largest farmer-and retailer-owned cooperatives in the U.S., we know our retail-owners are uniquely positioned to bridge that gap and get proven innovation into farmers’ hands faster.”
Retail partners include Keystone Cooperative (Indiana), Central Valley Ag (Nebraska), Farmers Cooperative – Dorchester (Nebraska), Farmward Cooperative (Minnesota), Alabama Farmers Cooperative (Alabama), and GreenPoint Ag (Alabama). The AgRogue Growth Partners will be managed by Radicle Growth, a leading ag tech investment firm, which will help identify and vet cutting-edge startups from around the world.