Managing Bollworms with Prevathon® Insect Control

AgWired Precision, Audio, Cotton, Farm & Gin Show, FMC, Insecticides, Video

Research conducted at Texas A&M University has shown wide-spread bollworm/earworm resistance to the majority cotton and corn Bt technologies and that cotton bollworms have developed resistance to pyrethroids to some degree in most of Texas. One of the insecticides recommended for growers to manage cotton bollworm populations is FMC Prevathon. At the recent Mid-South Farm and Gin Show, we talked … Read More

FMC Authority® Supreme Tackles Resistant Weeds

AgWired Precision, Audio, Commodity Classic, Farm & Gin Show, FMC, Herbicide, Video, weed management

Resistant weeds is a wide spread concern around the country and new FMC Authority® Supreme is helping farmers from the Midwest to the Mid-South take on the challenge. “Authority Supreme was a new product for 2018, we had a limited launch, limited quantities,” said FMC technical service manager Matthew Wiggins at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show last week in … Read More

Where’s the Content?

AgWired Animal, AgWired Energy, AgWired Precision, AMVAC, BASF, Bayer, Commodity Classic, Farm & Gin Show, FMC

ZimmComm had a crazy week of content creation – from Destin, Florida and the BASF Stoneville Legacy Club, to the Bayer AgVocacy Forum, the BASF Science Behind, and Commodity Classic in Orlando, and the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show in Memphis. If you are looking for it all, it’s being posted on the virtual newsroom for agriculture AgNewsWire. Sometimes we … Read More

Fungicide Use Differs Based on Geography

AgWired Precision, Audio, Farm & Gin Show, FMC, Fungicide

With another growing season approaching, growers all over the country will have to make decisions about using fungicides. And no two years are alike, with varying environmental conditions and stress factors that can lead to an increase in pathogens being present. “The first line of defense is choosing a good hybrid or variety that is going to be tolerant to … Read More

FMC Introduces New Tool to Combat Resistant Weeds

Agribusiness, AgWired Precision, Audio, Commodity Classic, Farm & Gin Show, FMC, Herbicide

FMC Agricultural Solutions introduces a new tool to combat resistant weeds, Authority® Supreme herbicide. And just in time for the 2018 growing season. The U.S. EPA and Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency have granted registration in soybeans, sunflowers and dry field peas. Authority Supreme herbicide provides two effective sites of action to combat some of the toughest resistant weeds. The … Read More

FMC Command® 3ME is #1 for Rice Growers

Cindy ZimmermanAudio, Farm & Gin Show, FMC, Rice, Weed control

Command® 3ME herbicide remains the South’s number one preemergence solution for protecting rice production from annual grasses despite recent entries into the market, according to FMC tech service rep Don Johnson in Mississippi. “We’ve been on the marketplace for rice growers in the Delta region for 16 years now,” said Johnson during an interview at the 2017 Farm and Gin … Read More