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Variable-rate review
By John Pocock
GLOBAL POSITIONING systems (GPS) and variable-rate technology (VRT) have been available to ag retailers and their farmer-customers for more than a decade...
Products
Remote monitoring
VALMONT Irrigation has added another product to its line of remote irrigation monitoring equipment. The new cams Tracker SP works with the cams Select...
Company merger
CROMPTON Corporation and Great Lakes Chemical Corporation recently completed an all-stock merger to create Chemtura Corporation, the fourth largest publicly...
New products from Garst
GARST SEED Company, based in Slater, IA, offers 31 new corn hybrids and 18 new soybean varieties for 2006. Nine of the new hybrids contain Agrisure traits,...
Technology
Cherry-picked software solutions
By David Hest
WHEN MIDLAND Co-op Inc. and Impact Cooperative Inc. became partners in 2002, the partnership, called Midland-Impact LLP, faced the challenge of integrating...
Marketing system
BUYING AND selling agricultural chemicals can be an easier process thanks to a new Web-based service from AgChemAccess, an independent international agrochemical...
State-of-the-art facility
SYNGENTA SEEDS recently celebrated renovations to its Phillips, NE, corn production facility. The $4.7 million project increases the plant's seed-conditioning...
The adjuvant advantage
MORE THAN 4,000 adjuvants are on the market today to help improve a herbicide's performance. Bryan Young, associate professor of weed science at Southern...
Know-How
Ways to manage health-care costs
By Lynn Grooms
AS INSURANCE rates have risen over the last few years, ag retailers have looked for more cost-effective ways to offer high-quality benefits for their...
Invaluable service
By Lynn Grooms
WHY SHOULD ag retailers sell services? The resulting customer interaction is invaluable and helps create long-term ties that are difficult for competitors...
Natural disaster preparation
By Lynn Grooms
LAST YEAR'S hurricanes and flooding made many stop and think about what they would do if they, too, were hit by such a natural disaster. Not long after...
Q&A
By Lynn Grooms
THE CROPLIFE Ambassador Network (CAN) is the educational outreach program of the Mid America CropLife Association (MACA). Brian Miller, environmental/auditing...
Articles
Less chemistry, more biotechnology
By Rhonda Brooks
BY NOW, it's no surprise to most agricultural retailers that few new herbicides are entering the corn and soybean marketplace. Because new product development...
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