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Dekalb excited for addition of VT4PRO™ to portfolio in 2024

Dekalb excited for addition of VT4PRO™ to portfolio in 2024

Planters are getting ready to hit the fields all over the country, and farmers who aren’t in the field yet are chomping at the bit to get going. A few weeks remain in the Cornbelt before we get started in earnest. While farmers are excited to get going, the team at Dekalb is also excited to see what the new year holds in American fields. Jamie Horton is the Brand Manager at Dekalb, and she talks about the additional products that are going to be finding their way into fields across the country...

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Quickshot enhances growth and performance to maximize crop potential

Quickshot enhances growth and performance to maximize crop potential

A new crop year means that many companies have introduced new products into the marketplace. Helena Agri-Enterprises launched a new crop nutrition product called Quickshot at this year’s Commodity Classic in Houston, Texas. Jason Gregory, brand manager for Coron and...

Navigating to Farm Progress Show in 2024 just got easier

Navigating to Farm Progress Show in 2024 just got easier

Each year the Farm Progress Show changes locations from Decatur Illinois to the show site in Boone Iowa, with Illinois hosting in odd-numbered years and Iowa in even-numbered years. The Farm Progress Show returns to Boone this August and will be held Tuesday August...

Celebrating Agriculture in Eastern Iowa

Celebrating Agriculture in Eastern Iowa

The vital role all involved in eastern Iowa agriculture play in regard to creating an affordable, safe and reliable food supply and driving local economies on display recently at the Jones County Beef Banquet. Each year for the past 85 years, the Eastern Iowa...

NPPC applauds USDA purchase of more pork for nutrition programs

NPPC applauds USDA purchase of more pork for nutrition programs

Using funds from its Commodity Credit Corporation, the Department of Agriculture is purchasing an additional 33.5 million pounds of pork — worth more than $78.6 million — for distribution to various food nutrition and assistance programs. Earlier this year, USDA...

FMC Adastrio™ Fungicide offers three modes of action

FMC Adastrio™ Fungicide offers three modes of action

Crop protection is a bigger business than the crops themselves. We are dependent on nothing more throughout the growing season. We worry about yield robbers like pests and weeds. Those other life forms survive by targeting our crops, and therefore our profits. And...

Iowa Pork makes donation for “Sack Hunger” campaign

Iowa Pork makes donation for “Sack Hunger” campaign

On Tuesday, March 19th, the first day of spring and National Ag Day, the Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) donated 4,200 pounds of ground pork to the Food Bank of Iowa in Des Moines. This donation was made in conjunction with the “Sack Hunger” partnership with...

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U.S. Export Sales Report (3-21-24)

U.S. Export Sales Report (3-21-24)

Another status quo report for export sales this week, and seeing a neutral report was nice in the face of some heightened volatility throughout the day of its release. Allendale commodity broker Greg McBride gave a breakdown of the numbers. Soybeans in particular were...