Battle for Seed Share 

By: By Mark Moore

The Seed industry is a competitive business, but 2009 may have set the high-water mark on just how competitive the industry has become. Corn seed remains...

More seeds per acre 

By: By Lynn Grooms

What Would happen if you bumped up your average corn-seeding rate by 5,000 more seeds per acre? It might be worth testing, particularly if you have productive...

High-oleic-acid soybean oil trait 

Pioneer has chosen the brand name Plenish for its high-oleic-acid soybean oil trait in the next generation of its soybean products. The company expects...

ASR resistance 

By: 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...

Dow AgroSciences and Schillinger Seed sign licensing agreement 

By: By Mark Moore

The company recently announced a licensing, research and development agreement with Schillinger Seed for the commercialization of transgenic commodity seeds....

LibertyLink Soybeans for 2009 

Bayer CropScience has announced the commercial launch of LibertyLink soybeans for the 2009 growing season. The new trait will be available through more...

Weapons Against Weeds 

By: By Mark Moore

New Herbicides for corn and soybeans will be available this year, increasing growers' options for preemergence and postemergence control. Some new seed...

100-BU. BEANS 

By: By Lynn Grooms

Soybean King Kip Cullers surpassed the 100-bu./acre soybean yield mark with record harvests in 2007 (154 bu.) and 2006 (139 bu.). But when will soybean...

Farmindustrynews.com 

Closed system for insecticides Collaboration between Syngenta Crop Protection, John Deere and Raven Industries has produced a new closed system for handling...

LibertyLink soybeans 

Soybeans with the LibertyLink trait moved closer to commercial launch in the United States. China, the largest importer of U.S. soybeans, has granted...