Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. Acquires Tiger-Sul
Tessenderlo Group announced that its subsidiary, Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc., has acquired Tiger-Sul, a North American focused provider of sulfur-based fertilizer products, from Platte River Equity. The acquisition closed in November 2024.
The acquisition strengthens TKI’s specialty...
LandScan Secures Digital Twin Patent
A groundbreaking patent, granted to LandScan, marks the first of its kind in the agriculture sector, involving the use of digital twin technology to revolutionize site characterization and precision farming practices.
The advent of digital twin...
Extension specialists offer guidance on Brake herbicide in peanut.
Brake herbicide received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for use in peanut in 2023. Each state agriculture department must also approve the label.
University of Georgia Extension weed specialist Eric...
Spray drones, the science of sustainability and the digital agriculture market are some of the hot topics in precision agriculture.
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You open an app and snap a picture of a weed. The app helps you identify...
2022 U.S. Peanut Crop
Peanut production is forecast at 5.85 million pounds or 2.9 million tons in 2022, down 6% from the previous estimate and down 8% from 2021. USDA made this prediction in September.
Planted area at 1.46 million acres...
Collaboration To Evaluate Targeted Spray Technology
AGCO recently announced a collaboration with Robert Bosch GmbH, BASF Digital Farming and Raven Industries Inc. with the objective of evaluating targeted spraying technology. The goal is to make applications more effective and efficient...
The Seam, which provides food and agribusiness software and commodity trading products, recently entered into multi-year agreements for its cloud-based peanut management platform with Coastal Growers and Tifton Peanut Co.
Coastal Growers, a farmer-owned cooperative, is building a new 400,000-square-foot,...
The Environmental Protection Agency has registered AZterknot fungicide from Vive Crop Protection for use on a wide array of crops, including corn, cotton, peanuts, rice and soybeans.
It is a premix of a traditional fungicide, azoxystrobin, and a biological, an...
AGCO Corp. marks its 30th anniversary by receiving eight AE50 Awards from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers for 2021. Each year, 50 products are chosen by an international panel of industry experts as the most outstanding...
Peanut growers have a new defense against white mold with Excalia fungicide from Valent U.S.A. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted federal registration of Excalia, which offers white mold control even under heavy pressure, to help growers prevent the...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently registered Vantacor insect control from FMC Corp. for use on an array of crops including soybeans, corn, cotton, peanuts, potatoes, sweet corn, sugarcane and onions. Vantacor is a highly concentrated formulation of Rynaxypyr...
FMC Launches Elevest Insecticide
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently granted FMC Corp. registration for Elevest insect control in a broad range of crops including peanuts, soybeans, sweet corn, cotton and potatoes. The new insecticide combines full rates of Rynaxypyr...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently registered Elevest insecticide from FMC Corp. for use on several crops, including cotton, soybeans, sweet corn, peanut and potatoes. The product is a premix of the full rate of Rynaxypyr — the brand...
New Postemergence Herbicide
FMC has expanded the label of Anthem Flex herbicide to include at-cracking and postemergence applications in peanuts. Anthem Flex herbicide provides long residual control of grasses and small-seeded broadleaf weeds with burndown activity on emerged broadleaf weeds....
Soil Health Partnership
Heliae Agriculture is partnering with the R.W. Griffin family of companies to drive soil health in Georgia and North Florida. R.W. Griffin, one of the largest fertilizer retailers in Georgia, has become an official distributor for the...
