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A swing into the black

From Editor Karen McMahon

WHEN THE bin doors finally close on this odd crop season, farmers can finally look ahead to a potentially less expensive year. Experts have predicted...


Adjuvants

New life for old chemistries

Jan 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Mark Moore

Dicamba, One of the most popular broadleaf herbicides, has been used by growers for effective weed control in corn. But in 2013, dicamba-resistant soybeans...

NEW ADJUVANT

Jan 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Growers may purchase a new adjuvant to use with glyphosate and other postemergent herbicides requiring a methylated seed oil. Destiny HC from Agriliance...

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Fertilizer

A swing into the black

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, From Editor Karen McMahon

WHEN THE bin doors finally close on this odd crop season, farmers can finally look ahead to a potentially less expensive year. Experts have predicted...

Precise fertilizer control

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

A NEW FERTILIZER control valve will enable the precise control of liquid fertilizer on new planters equipped with air-actuated clutches. The new, smaller...

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Fungicides

ASR resistance

Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Lynn Grooms

Researchers from USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Brazil's Embrapa Soja have identified a cluster of genes that confer resistance to the...

Fungicide soybean seed treatment

May 1, 2009 12:00 PM

For A second season, Bayer CropScience has included a biological fungicide in its Trilex 6000 soybean system. Called Yield Shield, this biological fungicide...

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Herbicides

Price cut for Roundup

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Mark Moore

MONSANTO IS cutting the price on its Roundup brand agricultural herbicides. We will be reducing the price of Roundup PowerMax and Roundup WeatherMax by...

LibertyLink trait in 100 brands

Oct 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Karen McMahon

SOYBEAN GROWERS have another option for handling weed-resistance problems in their 2010 soybean crop. The LibertyLink-resistant trait is now widely available...

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Insecticides

Corn pest control

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, Forrest Laws

THE NEW Agrisure Viptera trait featuring a new mode of action for lepidopteran corn pest control is waiting for final regulatory approval. Syngenta Seeds...

Refuge reduced

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM, By Lynn Grooms

THE NUMBER of refuge acres required for crops from multi-stacked seeds is decreasing thanks to new technology from seed companies. The first big drop...

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Seed Treatments

Experimental seed treatment

Nov 1, 2009 12:00 PM

THE EPA recently granted Valent BioSciences an experimental-use permit for using abscisic acid (S-ABA) as a seed treatment. Valent discovered that S-ABA...

Farmindustrynews.com

Sep 1, 2009 12:00 PM

FIN TV New inventions ease farm tasks Farm Industry News traveled to the Minnesota Inventors Congress this summer to find the latest ideas and inventions...

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