“Ultimately, good nitrogen management is about adapting, both to your field’s characteristics and to the season’s unpredictability,” says Bill Long, Pioneer field agronomist.
The University of Minnesota Extension details some of the key herbicides to watch for in the season ahead, featuring products from AMVAC, BASF, Bayer, Corteva, FMC, and Syngenta.
Only a handful of such products were on the show floor several years ago, but at the 2025 show in Denver there were dozens of firms — including offerings from major crop protection players.
Efficiency is the name of the game for Shawn Olsen, who farms 4,500 acres with his dad, David, brother, Kelly and son, Carter, and runs a custom strip-till business that covers up to 25,000 acres in east central South Dakota.
Thanks to advances in corn hybrid genetics, nitrogen stabilizers and crop protection products, corn-on-corn acres are a popular choice amongst farmers.
Corteva's Enversa herbicide received EPA approval in December 2023 and is expected to be available for use on soybeans, cotton, corn, sorghum, peanuts and sugar beets in the 2025 growing season.
Corteva Agriscience and John Deere announced a partnership to make it easier for farmers to access Corteva’s agronomic recommendations through the John Deere Operations Center.
The acquisition brings DLF a platform of alfalfa genetics, an industry-leading brand portfolio and expanded market access, in addition to tying together the company’s alfalfa breeding efforts.
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Francois and Samantha Naude detail their unique closing wheel from FigTri Steel Products & Engineering, designed for the South African climate where compaction can be a real issue in the arid environment.
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