Raven Industries, Inc. announced a collaboration with Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. to bring a new multi-hybrid planter control system to Kinze's world-leading product offering.

Doug Miller, vice president of Midwest Bio-Tech, helps you understanding soil biological activity and how it impacts plant germination and emergence, so that you can measure and make decisions that can improve your crop stands and yields. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]

The last Monsanto-owned patent for the original Roundup Ready trait in soybeans will expire in 2014, and the last applicable third-party patent will expire in early 2015.

About 30% of the major global cereal crops - rice, wheat and corn - may have reached their maximum possible yields in farmers' fields, according to UNL research. These findings raise concerns about efforts to increase food production to meet growing global populations.

If we could predict or know that the planting season during 2014 would be like it was in 2012 (the dry spring), then we would say don't treat your seed at all. But if the season is like this past year, wet, the combinations of seed treatments did a much better job and at the higher rates. There have been lots of questions over the past few days on what fungicides to apply; what rates to use; and are insecticides always necessary. Here we try to parse it all out for you.

FBSciences Inc. announces the key active ingredient in their technology platform has been granted U.S. EPA registration for use as a Plant Growth Regulator (PGR). Complex Polymeric Polyhydroxy Acids (CPPA) is a broad-spectrum PGR for use on field and greenhouse crops.

With the global population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, the world's farmers are going to need to produce a lot more food but without using much more farmland, as the vast majority of the world's arable land is already being used for agriculture.

University researchers recently updated and published their “Handy Bt Trait Table� that provides information for transgenic hybrids.

The 2013 U.S. corn crop will be a bin-busting 30% bigger than last year's drought-afflicited harvest, but U.S. corn consumption will surge by 17%, the U.S. government said on Friday, forecasting less corn at the end of the marketing year than people in the industry had expected.

As you observe the diagrams on the next page of our numerous root digs which depict what was happening below ground the last week of July, you will see what much cooler soils, some soil compaction and lack of precision fertilizer placement to the root development.