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Volac acquires silage additive company ECOSYL Products

August 15, 2012

Dairy nutrition company Volac has acquired ECOSYL Products Ltd, the U.K.-based silage additive market leader with subsidiaries in the U.S. and Canada. The deal includes the North-Yorkshire-based company’s laboratory and manufacturing facilities. The acquisition will strengthen Volac’s position in the international silage additive marketplace and complements the existing Volac offering, which includes Megalac and milk replacers.
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Hopper burn symptoms on alfalfa

Yellow, stunted alfalfa may not be entirely due to drought

August 14, 2012
Fred Springborn
Livestock producers concerned about the availability of hay and haylage this year need to scout and potentially treat alfalfa fields for potato leafhoppers. Potato leafhoppers damage alfalfa plants by piercing the leaf surface with its stylet and sucking out plant juices. As it probes, potato leafhoppers injects a salivary toxin that affects plant cells and disrupts vascular tissue.
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New salinity-tolerant forage crops

August 14, 2012
Donald Miller

Salinity is a growing problem on farmland in many parts of the western U.S., ranging from the Dakotas to the arid Southwest. The increase in salinity in these regions is adversely affecting crop productivity and in some cases making portions of fields unprofitable or unfarmable.



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Think twice before baling soybeans

August 7, 2012

Soybeans were introduced on Missouri farms as a hay crop, not an oilseed crop. That started back in the dry years of the 1930s.

This year, cow-herd owners short on feed are asking about baling soybeans that won’t make a bean crop. “Before you do anything, call your crop insurance agent,” says Rob Kallenbach, University of Missouri Extension forage specialist. “Determine the crop-indemnity payment before cutting soybeans for hay.”
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Loveland Products, Inc., and AMS announce strategic partnership

August 7, 2012

Loveland Products, Inc., a provider of high performance crop input products, and Advanced Microbial Solutions, LLC (AMS), an agricultural technology company delivering biochemical solutions for efficient and sustainable plant nutrition, have signed a strategic partnership agreement. The agreement gives Loveland exclusive, worldwide distribution rights to existing AMS technology, as well as access to an integrated pipeline of new product and technology opportunities.
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Monsanto wins patent case against DuPont, DuPont plans to appeal

August 7, 2012

Last week Monsanto Company won a patent infringement trial in the U.S. District Court against DuPont Pioneer, formally Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. The trial centered on DuPont's use of Monsanto's patented Roundup Ready technology.

The federal jury found that DuPont and DuPont Pioneer had willfully infringed Monsanto's patented Roundup Ready technology when it tried to patch the problems with DuPont's own Optimum GAT (OGAT) technology.
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Purdue scientists working to make drought-resistant crops

August 1, 2012

Purdue University scientists are working in several areas in the hope that future dry spells don't have the same effects on crops as this year's drought.

Mitch Tuinstra, a professor and Wickersham Chair in agronomy, is studying tropical varieties of corn to understand which genes allow the plants to survive in hot, dry weather. The objective is to find ways to integrate those genes into corn that is bred to produce high yields in the Midwest.


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IPNI's new Crop Nutrient Deficiency Photo Library app

July 30, 2012

A new mobile device app called Crop Nutrient Deficiency Photo Library has been released by the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI).

“This is our first venture into mobile apps, and we think this offering will generate a lot of interest by crop advisers, consultants, farmers, students, and anyone wanting help in identifying nutrient deficiency symptoms in common crops,” said Terry Roberts, president of IPNI.
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