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Sunday, September 6, 2015
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View of Farm Progress Show from Agco elevated platform. Decatur, IL. September 3, 2015.
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View of Farm Progress Show from Agco elevated platform. Decatur, IL. September 3, 2015.
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View of Farm Progress Show from Agco elevated platform. The Farm Progress Show (September 1-3, 2015) attracted visitors from all over the country and from many foreign countries.
Saturday, September 5, 2015
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Very large tractor with rubber tracks. Farm Progress Show, Decatur, IL. September 3, 2015.
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Thursday, January 8, 2015
Monsanto and FMC Agricultural Solutions Expand Relationship To Benefit Corn, Cotton And Soybean Farmers
From Monsanto:
Monsanto and FMC Agricultural Solutions Expand Relationship To Benefit Corn, Cotton And Soybean Farmers
Monsanto’s Roundup Ready PLUS® Relationship With FMC To Include Hero® Insecticide
Tuesday January 6, 2015
Dateline:
St. Louis
"The relationship with FMC Agricultural Solutions helps us ensure that growers have an additional tool for crop management that allows their crops to thrive"
ST. LOUIS (Jan. 2, 2015) — Monsanto Company announced today an agreement to extend the relationship with FMC Agricultural Solutions which will benefit corn, cotton and soybean growers through Roundup Ready PLUS® Crop Management Solutions. This agreement broadens the Roundup Ready PLUS Crop Management Solutions relationship to include Hero® insecticide.
Monsanto’s Roundup Ready PLUS platform empowers farmers to maximize the performance of their Roundup Ready® crops through local research-supported crop management recommendations. Monsanto’s relationship with FMC began in the fall of 2010 with the inception of Roundup Ready PLUS Weed Management Solutions. For the 2015 growing season, Roundup Ready PLUS® Weed Management Solutions has evolved beyond weed management to become Roundup Ready PLUS Crop Management Solutions. Today, Monsanto and its partners continue to develop effective, economical and sustainable approaches to controlling tough-to-control and glyphosate-resistant weeds, as well as insects and diseases.
FMC herbicides that will continue to be endorsed under the agreement include the Authority® brand of soybean pre-emergence residual herbicides: Authority® Assist, Authority® First, Authority® Maxx, Authority® MTZ and Authority® XL. Information on these products, as well as incentives, is available at www.roundupreadyPLUS.com.
Hero insecticide is a powerful combination of two pyrethroid-based insecticides with complimentary activity against 45 labeled insects that other products may miss. Some of those insects include kudzu bug, aphids and mites on soybeans, as well as brown marmorated stinkbug on soybeans and some corn hybrids.
Hero insecticide is an effective tank-mix partner with fungicides, post-herbicides and foliar fertilizers and offers a broad -spectrum and increased length of control on multi-pest complexes common in corn, soybeans and cotton, as well as more than 80 labeled crops.
“The relationship with FMC Agricultural Solutions helps us ensure that growers have an additional tool for crop management that allows their crops to thrive,” said Chris Reat, Roundup Ready PLUS marketing manager at Monsanto. “By enhancing the Roundup Ready PLUS platform with Hero® insecticide, we are ensuring corn, soybean and cotton growers have access to an excellent product for managing insects and protecting crop yield”.
“We look forward to extending the Roundup Ready PLUS portfolio to include insecticides for corn, soybean and cotton growers, and continuing this strong relationship with FMC so that we can continue to provide the highest industry standard solutions for growers’ bottom-line benefits,” Reat said.
About Monsanto Company
Monsanto is committed to bringing a broad range of solutions to help nourish our growing world. We produce seeds for fruits, vegetables and key crops – such as corn, soybeans, and cotton – that help farmers have better harvests while using water and other important resources more efficiently. We work to find sustainable solutions for soil health, help farmers use data to improve farming practices and conserve natural resources, and provide crop protection products to minimize damage from pests and disease. Through programs and partnerships, we collaborate with farmers, researchers, nonprofit organizations, universities and others to help tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. To learn more about Monsanto, our commitments and our more than 20,000 dedicated employees, please visit: discover.monsanto.com and monsanto.com. Follow our business on Twitter® attwitter.com/MonsantoCo, on the company blog, Beyond the Rows® at monsantoblog.com or subscribe to our News Release RSS Feed.
About FMC Corporation
FMC Corporation is a diversified chemical company serving agricultural, industrial and consumer markets globally for more than a century with innovative solutions, applications and quality products. In 2013, FMC had annual sales of approximately $3.9 billion. The company employs approximately 6,000 people throughout the world and operates its businesses in three segments: FMC Agricultural Solutions, FMC Health and Nutrition, and FMC Minerals. For more information, visit www.FMC.com.
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Always read and follow label directions. Hero is a restricted use pesticide. Authority herbicides and Hero insecticide are not registered for sale or use in California but Hero EW is registered in California. FMC, Authority and Hero are trademarks of FMC Corporation. © 2014 FMC Corporation. All rights reserved.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Catfish Farmers Fight Fish Glut and High Feed Prices
The following is
an excerpt from an article in
The New York Times
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Catfish Farmers Fight Fish Glut and High Feed Prices
By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr.
WASHINGTON — In the federal government’s efforts to help farmers and ranchers survive this year’s devastating drought, perhaps the most surprising step has been a dose of support for struggling producers of catfish.
It’s not that their ponds, shimmering across some of the poorest counties from Alabama to Arkansas, were drying up, although the catfish industry has been shriveling for 10 years.
Rather, catfish assistance came as part of a $170 million federal purchase of pork, chicken, lamb and fish announced in early August, all intended to prop up farmers hit by skyrocketing prices of feed like corn and soybeans.
The Agriculture Department, in addition to its routine purchases for school lunches and food banks, would buy an extra $10 million of catfish, the administration announced.
That would be more catfish than the government bought all last year, and enough to put a significant dent in a glut of catfish that has left fish farmers squeezed this year between rising feed costs and falling prices for the fish.
Whether it is enough to head off the continuing collapse of the industry is another question, catfish specialists say.
“I think we are seeing a change before our very eyes, quicker than we ever dreamed,” said Roger Barlow, executive vice president of the Catfish Farmers of America. “We have never had as high a feed cost and at the same time seen our pond-bank price go down,” Mr. Barlow said.
A $10 million purchase, at recent prices paid by the government, would be more than three million pounds of frozen catfish.
“That’s not a lot, but it can’t help but help,” said Craig Tucker, a catfish expert and former director of the Thad Cochran National Warmwater Aquaculture Center of Mississippi State University, in Stoneville.
For more, visit www.nytimes.com.
Friday, February 10, 2012
EPA Orders Louisiana Poultry Farms to Stop Discharging
News release from EPA Region 6:
EPA Orders Louisiana Poultry Farms to Stop Discharging
(DALLAS – February 10, 2012) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued cease and desist administrative orders to two chicken broiler facilities in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, for discharging chicken litter into a tributary of the Dugdemona River.
The Mike Reeves 1 and Beaver Creek Farm chicken broiler facilities are concentrated animal feeding operations located approximately four miles east of Arcadia on the south side of U.S. Highway 80, Lincoln Parish. The broiler facilities have been ordered to immediately stop all discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States.
“We expect poultry farms to put food on our tables, not waste into our rivers,” said EPA Regional Administrator Al Armendariz. “Owners and operators of animal feeding operations have a responsibility to comply with the law.”
On January 24 and 25, 2012, the EPA inspected the facilities and found unauthorized discharges of pollutants from chicken litter storage piles to an unnamed tributary of the Dugdemona River.
As a result of the inspection, the owners and operators of the Mike Reeves 1 and Beaver Creek Farm chicken broiler facilities have been ordered to immediately take action to stop all discharges of pollutants from their facilities’ chicken litter storage piles. Within 30 days they must submit to EPA and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) a certified summary, including photographs, that document the unauthorized discharges have been stopped.
More about activities in EPA Region 6 is available at http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/region6.html
EPA audio file is available at http://www.epa.gov/region6/6xa/podcast/feb2012.html
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