Based on the results from the trials, strip-till looks promising for soybean production in 30-inch rows in Michigan, but the practice should be restricted to fields having slopes less than 5% to reduce water-erosion potential in the rows.

Hemisphere GPS Inc. signed and closed a definitive agreement to sell the business assets associated with its non-agricultural operations to the Canadian subsidiary of Beijing UniStrong Science & Technology Co. Ltd. for cash of $14.96M. PI Financial Inc. acted as advisor on the transaction for Hemisphere GPS.

Ag Leader Technology, Inc. introduced the GPS 2500B RTK Base Station. This new GPS system can be used by farmers or their ag professional assisting them with such tasks as tiling.

Hypro continues to make spray tip selection simple by releasing a new mobile app that takes your application information and provides a customized list of spray tip recommendations.

Plants can adapt to extreme shifts in water availability, such as drought and flooding, but their ability to withstand these extreme patterns will be tested by future climate change, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their cooperators.

Dow AgroSciences today announced its commitment to further expand its launch activities with field and farmer-focused Enlist experiences for 2013. The company continues to execute on its launch strategy as it awaits final regulatory approvals for the Enlist system, its highly anticipated herbicide-tolerant trait technology.

In order to develop variable-rate prescriptions for crop inputs like seed and fertilizer, it is first necessary to delineate fields into regions of distinct yield potential (Butzen, et al., 2012), also known as management zones (MZ).

Congress should reform U.S. farm subsidies, and end a $5 billion a year "direct payment", as part of delivering an overdue overhaul of the farm program this year, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Monday.

After strip-tilling corn on soybeans for the first time 6 years ago, Newton, Iowa, farmer Will Cannon tried strip-tilling corn-on-corn in his second season and has continued ever since.

Severe drought conditions reduced soybean yields last year by an average of 6.2% from 2011. The implications of the 2012 drought may progress well into the 2013 growing season.