Briefing Room

• Ridley believes that the newly formed Technology Center is another big step forward in its growth strategy to become the industry’s leader in delivering self-fed nutritional supplements for production livestock, wildlife and companion animals.

• The drive-through operation provides the ability to widen the wrapper for easy bale loading, outstanding stability and unmatched visibility of the wrapping process.

• Dow AgroSciences is the first company to provide the three-gene trait — two Cry proteins and a vegetative insecticidal protein (Vip3A) from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) —for enhanced, in-plant protection in cotton against a wide spectrum of key lepidopteran cotton insects, including cotton bollworm, budworm, armyworm, loopers and others.

• The Deltapine NPE program has become the cotton industry’s premiere field evaluation program, continuing its work with 200-plus farmers evaluating pre-commercial variety lines.