The BioAg Alliance, a collaboration between Novozymes and Monsanto to improve crop harvests through naturally-occurring microbes, announced results from its 2015 field trial program. Those results included a corn inoculant product, which increased yields by an average of 4 bushels per acre in U.S. field tests. The product is based on a fungus found in soil and researchers from the … Read More
Plant Breeder Gets Career Award at #ASTACSS
A giant in the plant breeding and genetics world was honored by the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) and the National Council of Commercial Plant Breeders (NCCPB) during the CSS 2015 and Seed Expo last week in Chicago. Donn Cummings retired from Monsanto after 30 years as a corn plant breeder, spending the last eight years of his career developing … Read More
Monsanto Moving to Carbon Neutral Crop Production
Monsanto Company is addressing global climate change with plans to make their operation carbon neutral by 2021. The company has plans that target their seed and crop operations as well as best practice and data sharing with farmers. “Climate change is one of the biggest issues we face in agriculture, as well as one of the most pressing challenges facing … Read More
Details from Climate Corp on Deere Partnership
The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, has signed new agreements for Deere and Company to acquire the Precision Planting LLC equipment business and to “enable exclusive near real-time data connectivity between certain John Deere farm equipment and the Climate FieldView™ platform.” The agreements represent the industry’s first and only near “real-time in-cab wireless connection to John Deere equipment … Read More
John Deere To Acquire Precision Planting and More
This morning John Deere announced that the company has acquired Precision Planting from the Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto. Also included in the announcement is an exclusive agreement with Climate Corporation for near real-time data connectivity between certain John Deere equipment and Climate Corporation’s FieldView Platform. Making the announcement at the Develop with Deere conference in Kansas City this … Read More
KWS, Monsanto Aim To Improve Sugarbeet Technology
This week Monsanto and KWS announced they will be extending their partnership to focus on helping U.S. and Canadian sugarbeet growers manage tough-to-control weeds. The new technology will aim to deliver tolerance to three different herbicides — glyphosate, glufosinate and dicamba — and is expected to be commercially available in the middle of the next decade, pending regulatory approvals. “We … Read More
DEKALB Corn Logo Commemorated
The famous “winged ear” logo of DEKALB® corn first made its debut eighty years ago and has become of the most widely-recongized symbols in agriculture. The symbol was launched in 1935 with the slogan, “DeKalb Quality Hybrids Will Be Your Mortgage Lifter.” Now the logo will be commemorated with placement of an Illinois state historical marker at Memorial Park in DeKalb, … Read More
Roundup Ready 2 Xtend Set for 2016 Launch
Monsanto Company‘s Roundup Ready 2 Xtend Soybeans are still on target for a 2016 release. Ben Kampelman, US Dicamba Marketing Manager for Monsanto, sat down with AgWired at the 2015 Farm Progress Show to discuss the company’s new product. His takeaway focused on the three important benefits Roundup Read 2 Xtend soybeans will offer farmers: flexibility, weed control, and the … Read More
FMC and Monsanto Expand Agreement for Growers
FMC Agricultural Solutions and Monsanto last week announced the expansion of an agreement of participation in the Roundup Ready PLUS® Crop Management Solutions platform. The exclusive agreement includes FMC’s Authority® brand sulfentrazone herbicides, and adds FMC’s Capture® LFR® insecticide as a soil-applied insecticide for corn and Hero® insecticide. “We believe growers should make use of the best technologies available,” said … Read More
Corn Growers, Monsanto Award Grant for Bt Corn Study
The National Corn Growers Association and the Monsanto Insect Management Knowledge Program are funding a study into Bt corn. This NCGA news release says Dr. Felicia Wu from Michigan State University received a grant for the proposal titled “An Agent Based Model of Insect Adaptation to Transgenic Insecticidal Corn.” NCGA believes farmers should have as many options as possible to … Read More