Seed Treatment Articles

Dow/Syngenta cross-licensing agreement 

Dow AgroSciences and Syngenta now have access to each company's corn traits. Under a recent agreement between the two companies, Syngenta will receive...

In Defense of Wheat 

By: By Lynn Grooms

When a crop is worth more dollars per bushel, it pays to protect your investment and increase the potential of a higher return per acre. With wheat bringing...

New seed treatment 

By: Mark Moore

Bayer CropScience introduces Poncho 500, its newest seed-applied insecticide. Corn growers who use Poncho 500 can see an average 10-bu./acre increase...

Farmindustrynews.com 

ISOBUS for tractors, implements Tractors and implements are moving to a universal language called ISOBUS that lets equipment from different companies...

New Poncho seed treatment 

By: By Mark Moore

“Corn growers who use Poncho 500 can see an average 10-bu./acre increase in their yields over current fungicide ...

Better inoculants 

By: By Lynn Grooms

Over The long term, soybean inoculation appears to be profitable throughout the Midwest, says Jim Beuerlein, crop science professor, Ohio State University....

Products: Convenient soybean inoculants, Flexible soybean herbicide, New seed treatment 

Three new soybean inoculants for the 2008 growing season are available from Becker Underwood. The Vault inoculants are produced...

Inoculants in rotation 

By: BY WAYNE WENZEL

YOUR NEIGHBORS would probably look at you funny if you started throwing around terms like Bradyrhizobium japonicum. But say soybean inoculant and most...

Bayer buys bigger share of seed treatment biz 

Specialty chemical company Crompton Corporation has agreed to sell its 50% share of the Gustafson seed treatment business in North America to Bayer CropScience...

Business of buying department 

More seed treatments in use. MachineryLink rents tractors. eBay financing....

Strike Zone cuts drift 

Reduce drift when spraying and increase deposition with Helena's new Strike Zone MxD. The product contains Maximum Deposition Technology (MxD), a recent...

Crops department 

Auger fill system. EPA approves Starane. Seed protection, spray treatments....

Seed coatings get serious 

By: by Peg Zenk

Field tests demonstrate that protecting seed with a polymer wrap can lengthen your planting window and boost emergence.

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Crops department 

By: Wayne Wenzel

Sorghum seed treatment. New from Fontanelle. Poncho sales boom. Early plant protection. Dairyland Seed releases. Irrigation pipe by water type.

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21st century insecticides 

By: David Hest

With the anticipated approval of Monsanto's YieldGard Rootworm hybrids, the year 2003 may be the beginning of an era dominated by corn hybrids with built-in corn rootworm protection.

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Business of buying department 

ConAgra exits ag. U.S. built. Seed treatment purchase. Seed price deals.

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On Watch 

By: Wayne Wenzel

Terrorists could target pesticide applicators and farmers.

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Another layer of protection 

By: Joan Olson

Seed treatments guard valuable biotech seeds against diseases and insects.Seed treatment is one area of the crop protection business that continues to...

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