Business of buyingNarrow-row corn head design droppedNarrow-row corn disciple/inventor Marion Calmer made news almost two years ago when Case Corporation bought the manufacturing... Who owns nature?By: Dale B. McDonald Thirteen years ago, Farm Industry News compiled an editorial series, hailed as a landmark, on the coming products of biotechnology. Today, many of those... Business of buyingCat enters Big Red countryCaterpillar's high-tech acre eater, the Lexion series of combines, will now carry the label "assembled in Nebraska." Although... Cloning plantsEventually corn may reproduce itself without loss in hybrid vigor.Diligent research and biotechnology have again scored another amazing feat. Researchers... Switch on crop protectionBy: Lynn Grooms New seed research aims to turn traits - such as cold tolerance or pollination timing - on and off when needed.We are all accustomed to flipping a switch... Business of buyingBy: Karen McMahon Seed piracy to fund scholarshipsRoyalty payments received from farmers who unlawfully saved and replanted or sold Roundup Ready soybeans will be used... This is a pesticide?By: Karen McMahon A debate is raging over whether biotechnology crops such as Bt corn should be labeled as plant pesticides, as directed by the EPA. What will consumers... Cloning plantsEventually corn may reproduce itself without loss in hybrid vigor.Diligent research and biotechnology have again scored another amazing feat. Researchers... Farmers' "take" on trait seedBy: Jodie Wehrspann Heralded as the path to profit and cleaner fields, genetically enhanced seed has swept the market in only three years. But what do farmers really think... New corn improves manureBy: Lynn Grooms Low-phytate corn may be a remedy for animal waste concernsPoultry and swine producers in environmentally sensitive areas around the world know the headaches... Unload silage fast With these products, upright silos can be unloaded faster.By: Jodie Wehrspann Consolidation in the dairy industry has led to fewer producers and larger herd sizes. Problem is, the upright silos you've used for years to store high-moisture... Triple-, quad-stack hybridsNew hybrids can prevent damage from bugs, disease and herbicides.Garst Seed Company has upped the ante in the seed trait game by being the first seed... Which Bt to buy?By: Jodie Wehrspann AgrEvo expects anywhere between 1 and 1.2 million U.S. corn acres to be planted to its new StarLink Bt corn hybrids that control European corn borer (ECB),... When companies converge What does "from dirt to dinner plate" mean to growers?By: Lynn Grooms "From dirt to dinner," "plow to plate" - these phrases have been used to describe the new joint ventures or collaborations between seed biotechnology... New traits of seed buyingBy: Jodie Wehrspann Genetic engineering will change the way you buy seed.Changes are coming in the way you buy seed. That's because the seed itself is changing. Through genetic... |
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