A new, high-quality pelleted gypsum fertilizer is now available from Beneficial Reuse Management (BRM). This product offers 17 percent sulfate sulfur and 21 percent calcium. “GYPSOIL BLENDABLE is a pH-neutral pellet that won’t acidify soils like some other sulfate sulfur sources, yet it is readily available to the crop,” says BRM’s Steve Musser who oversees the company’s pelletizing operations. GYPSOIL … Read More
TKI Opens Research and Innovation Farm
The Crop Vitality division at Tessenderlo Kerley Inc. (TKI) has opened the doors on a new research, development and innovation farm in Dinuba, California. This facility was created to develop innovative crop nutrients that will help growers meet the needs of today’s growers. The farm covers 107 acres and offers researchers the opportunity to replicate a variety of farming conditions and practices. It … Read More
John Deere Promises Improvements for 2017
The growing season for 2017 will bring about some promising new additions to John Deere‘s product line up. Available next spring is the new MaxEmerge 5e row units for a variety of Deere planters, including the mini-hopper and DB planters. MaxEmerge 5e row units will improve seeding population accuracy when it operating on a curve– up to 20 percent improvement in … Read More
.@FoodIntegrity Expands Into Canada
The Center for Food Integrity (CFI) is heading north. The new Canadian Centre for Food Integrity (CCFI) is a division of Food & Farm Care Canada, an organization that shares CFI’s mission of earning trust for today’s food system. “Canada faces many of the same challenges we do here, and with an increasingly interconnected global food system, expanding our North American … Read More
Vaughn Joins New Holland Team
Let’s welcome Francesca Vaughn to the agrimarketing community as the new Brand Marketing Communications Manager for New Holland North America. Francesca will be responsible for overall brand, product segment and channel marketing communications, in addition to management of creative agencies and vendors in North America. “We’re very excited for the level of expertise which Francesca brings to our organization”, said … Read More
John Deere Makes Precision Farming More Precise
John Deere is offering precision growers a few new toys tools for their toolbox. The company has just announced the introduction of two new AutoTrac guidance products to its lineup. These products were designed to help row crop producers and ag service providers navigate fields more accurately when spraying during post emergence. The AutoTrac Vision assists the operator with the use … Read More
USDA Begins 2016 Resource Management Survey
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will be talking to more than 10,000 farmers and ranchers to obtain data for the annual Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). This survey covers all areas of agriculture productions; farm financial well-being, chemical use, and many other farm characteristics. This year the survey will focus on corn production and organic and conventional … Read More
AFBF Pleased with Supreme Court Ruling
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling was handed down yesterday. The law of the land says landowners may challenge the federal government and the Army Corps of Engineers over improper regulations designed to protect water. Landowners have attempted many times to challenge Corps rulings known as jurisdictional determinations, but the government successfully argued that those determinations were not “final agency actions” … Read More
USDA Unveils Streamline Crop Reporting
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says that farmers and ranchers filing crop acreage reports will now be able to submit common information to be shared electronically with other Farm Service Agency locations or their insurance provider. This new process is part of the USDA Acreage Crop Reporting Streamlining Initiative (ACRSI). This interagency collaboration also includes participating private crop insurance agents and … Read More
Comment Period Opens on RFS
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal to cut corn ethanol in the Renewable Fuel Standard by nearly 200 million gallons. The comment period for this proposal is opened to the public, now through July 11. The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) urges farmers and consumers to submit a comment as soon as possible. The NCGA has created a webpage … Read More