by ad_min | Feb 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
Each year in Iowa, there are 2 to 3 million acres planted that have an expected negative return. That means the investment in inputs applied to those acres, roughly $1 billion, isn’t being returned. “That’s $1 billion of misallocated working capital,” says Dave Muth,...
by ad_min | Feb 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Online sales an unregulated danger to agriculture. Cash on the barrelhead, the trade raged for 50 days and nights. In 2015, European researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich used an online tracking platform to watch as plant species were sold...
by ad_min | Feb 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Online real estate listings such as Zillow.com and Realtor.com revolutionized the housing market this century. Today pick any residential address in the U.S. with those free online services and you’ll get rough estimates of the home’s current value, its...
by ad_min | Feb 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
Monsanto Co. has received Chinese import approval for Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans and has announced plans to commercially launch the trait in 2016. The genetically engineered (GE) trait technology allows soybeans to tolerate applications of dicamba and glyphosate...
by ad_min | Feb 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
DuPont Pioneer announced it has updated its Planting Rate Estimator tool ahead of the 2017 planting season. Version 3.0 allows users to compare three yield targets or three separate hybrids in one chart. The app taps into a “wide-ranging set of data from dozens of...
