20 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW 

Organic food production cannot feed the world. OPINIONS ABOUT the potential for organic food production vary widely...

Safener solutions 

By: By Rhonda Brooks

THE DAYS when corn growers would tolerate a little crop injury from herbicides in return for excellent weed control are long gone. Increased production...

Weed-control shift 

By: Mark Moore

THE DELAYED 2009 corn and soybean harvest could have implications for weed-control programs this year. Producers in the Midwest raced to complete harvest,...

Diversity key to glyphosate issue 

By: by Forrest Laws

In the last 15 years, glyphosate has become one of the most widely used herbicides in the world, eclipsing even atrazine as the workhorse of chemical weed control in row crops and a myriad of other uses...

Crop preservers 

By: By Mark Moore

CROP PROTECTION companies continue to develop novel products to help farmers control the threats to their corn and soybean yields. Here are new herbicides,...

The 20 Top Products of 2009 

By: By Karen McMahon and Jodie Wehrspann

88 series combines by Case IH CASE REDESIGNED its 88 series Axial-Flow combines from the ground up. The new series replaces the Class V 2577 and Class...

Weed Wiper rolls on herbicide 

The GrassWorks Weed Wiper now comes in a 40-ft. model for the application of herbicides to weeds in a pasture or field...

SmartStax on track 

By: By Rhonda Brooks

WHAT'S SO smart about the new SmartStax biotech package? Plenty, if you like the idea of high corn yields, aboveground and belowground insect protection,...

Eight traits 

SMARTSTAX corn contains eight genetically modified traits that are combined or stacked: six for insect resistance and two for herbicide tolerance. There are some stacked GM trait crops on the market now...

Price cut for Roundup 

By: 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...