Bayer is gearing up to make a significant impact on pollinator health in 2016 by planting more forage and spreading the word about the importance of pollinators with the debut of the Feed a Bee song and video. The video features Beatrice Blum and her animated friends who spread wildflowers to beautify their world and help pollinators and is designed … Read More
Planting Decisions Can Still Include #LibertyLink
Spring has sprung and planting has already begun in some areas, but there’s still time to include Bayer Liberty® and LibertyLink® soybeans this crop year. At the recent Bayer AgVocacy Forum, we talked with Al Luke, Bayer U.S. strategic business lead for row crops, about the LibertyLink system. “We’ve had great uptake this year, we think our sales will be … Read More
LibertyLink Shows Yield Advantage in Field Tests
For the second year in a row, field tests show LibertyLink soybeans yield better than Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans. A collaboration between multiple university researchers and cooperators planted side-by-side field trials across various soil types. The trials were designed to measure a yield comparison of both herbicide systems. “We wanted growers to be able to look at the two … Read More
Growers, Beekeepers Work to Take CARE of Bees
Bayer’s CARE Program has been promoting bee health and communication between growers and beekeepers for four years now. This program was created to educate both groups about the importance of working together, especially during planting season, to protect the vital pollinating work bees do. Feeding, clothing and providing fuel to the world is an important work, and it wouldn’t be … Read More
Bayer Features Science #AgVocate Panel
Science is scary for some people, but not for the three brilliant young men who shared the stage at last week’s Bayer AgVocacy Forum in New Orleans. Dr. Josiah Zayner (left) is CEO of the Open Discovery Institute (ODIN), which was created to support small scale science and technology research. Charles Baron (middle) is co-founder of the Farmer Business Network … Read More
FFA Chapters Win With #LibertyLink #RealYield Game
The biggest winners in the 2015 Bayer LibertyLink® Real Yield game were state FFA chapters around the country who get to share $50,000. Twenty-eight state FFA organizations participated in the challenge to promote the online Real Yield Game to growers within their states. The donation value was determined by the number of growers from respective states who played the game … Read More
Big Winner in Bayer #LibertyLink #RealYield Game
Congratulations to Rick Juchems, Iowa farmer, who is the big winner in the Bayer LibertyLink Real Yield Game. Rick has won a year’s lease on a John Deere 8320R tractor. He’s a corn and soybean farmer doing mostly no-till with 100% cover crops. Rick also custom feeds hogs too. To say that he was excited about winning this tractor for … Read More
Bayer Honors Farmers at #AgVocacy Forum
Last week Bayer recognized their 2016 winners at the AgVocacy Forum in New Orleans. Tyler Wegmeyer of Wegmeyer Farms in Virginia was honored with the Young Famer Sustainability Award. The Produce Innovation Award was given to Amy Machamer and Hurd Orchards from New York. “We are proud to recognize two farmers who are committed to modern, sustainable agriculture and focused on … Read More
EPA Moves to Cancel Flubendiamide
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week issued a notice of intent to cancel all flubendiamide products “that pose a risk to aquatic invertebrates that are important to the health of aquatic environments.” Flubendiamide is an insecticide marketed commercially by Bayer under the trade name Belt, and also by Nichino America as Tourismo and Vetica. Both companies rejected a recent … Read More
Bayer Promotes Bee Health in NOLA
Bayer Bee Care teamed up with the Orleans Parish 4-H chapter Tuesday to break ground on a pollinator patch in the teaching garden at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, planting pollinator-friendly plants to increase forage and educate the next generation of bee advocates about the importance of pollinators. “We’re thrilled to work with Bayer to inspire a new generation of bee … Read More