Tag: crop protection

By Michelle Hummel, ASA Senior Director of Industry & Stakeholder Relations 2025 Ag Voices of the Future class meets with USDA staff. This summer a group of college students will head to Washington, D.C., as the 10th class...
By Tracy Snider, ASA Executive Director of Industry & State Relations As with any new technology, the bright shiny object tends to get the most attention. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is becoming a bigger part of agriculture. From...

Rainfall is your No. 1 yield-limiting factor. Why guess at it?

It’s been another one of those springs, cold and wet. It was cold for sure but how wet depends are where you are. Temperature data...

Precision Ag News 6/9

Switch Bioworks, a biotechnology company focused on sustainable fertilizer, announced the launch of field trials of its novel microbial fertilizer, with authorization from the...

Diseases cost North American corn growers 11 figures in four years

In just four years, a combination of 37 different pathogens reduced the profits of Ontario and U.S. corn growers by US$13.8 billion. That’s according to...

Cereal aphid, leaf beetle and armyworm activity picks up in Ontario fields

Some consultants and scouts have started to notice some cereal pest activity in fields this week. Some fields have cereal leaf beetle larvae starting up,...

European precision spot-sprayer company extends production to U.S.

CORRECTED, June 2, 2026 — A Swiss company in the growing precision crop spraying space has opened a new factory in Kansas for U.S....

Mississauga firm’s crop fungicide tech promises improved rainfastness

Farmers can now pick up some nanotech to help protect wheat, corn and soy crops against certain diseases. Phobos FC 360 – a Group 3...

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