Briefing Room

  • Monsanto to purchase Precision Planting, Inc.

    • Precision Planting has a long history of innovations that optimize planter performance and increase yield potential, including the new FieldView technology, which offers an application designed to monitor all critical aspects of planter performance and crop data analysis.
  • Syngenta unites vegetable seed under one brand

    • The transition to one brand is intended to leverage the power of the Syngenta brand as an R&D innovator and leader in breeding, and eliminate market confusion from multiple brands.
  • Monsanto poised to deliver dozen new soybean traits

    • Advances resulting from the company’s new product soybean pipeline support Monsanto’s goal of helping farmers double crop yields by 2030 to meet growing world demand.
  • Pioneer expanding agronomy staff, resources

    Twenty additional agronomy experts across the United States will be hired to further strengthen Pioneer's agronomic services and corn and soybean product advancement efforts.
  • Early fungicide application protects soybean yields

    Topguard, a fungicide that provides the longest lasting disease control of any fungicide registered for soybeans, protects against Cercospora leaf blight and strobilurin-resistant frogeye leaf spot.
  • DeKalb announces new corn products for 2013

    • To help protect the high yield potential of DeKalb genetics, the 2013 lineup features a selection of products with the latest Genuity trait technologies that offer advanced insect protection, including: DeKalb Genuity SmartStax RIB Complete and DeKalb Genuity VT Double PRO RIB Complete blended corn products, with the convenience and simplicity of single-bag refuge management and DeKalb Genuity VT Triple PRO corn.
  • Dow, Syngenta announce corn hybrid agreement

    • This agreement will make high-performing trait stacks, beginning with the Agrisure Viptera 3220 and Agrisure 3122 trait stacks, more widely available to U.S. and Canadian corn growers.
  • Kansas rancher named America’s Farmers Mom of the Year

    • Debbie Lyons-Blythe says she is proud to accept the award in recognition of farm moms everywhere who work long hours for little recognition.
  • Tracks boost productivity of New Holland’s T9 Series tractors

    • Producers using this track option will increase traction and reduce soil compaction and slippage, which translates into less surface damage and a smoother ride.
  • MANA launches ABBA Ultra 0.3 miticide/insecticide

    • Labeled for use on cotton, tree nuts, grapes, citrus, pome fruits, strawberries and select vegetable crops, ABBA Ultra’s modern formulation with low VOC emissions potential delivers long-lasting control against a wide spectrum of mite species and insects including the Two-spotted spider mite, Pacific mite, European red mite, Willamette spider mite, Red mite, Western grapeleaf skeletonizer, Variegated leafhopper, leafminers, leafhoppers and thrips.  

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