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2026 Commodity Classic highlights

03/05/2026

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The Upshift C Plus session featuring a farmer panel drew a huge crowd.

It was standing room only as attendees packed a session about taking cost out using Upshift® C Plus to kick off the 2026 Commodity Classic with Meristem Crop Performance®. From there, a constant flow of dealers, farmers and those interested in learning more about Meristem came through the booth on the trade show floor.

“The turnout at Commodity Classic was incredible,” said Mitch Eviston, Meristem founder and CEO. “From the session with Upshift C Plus, to the traffic we saw at the trade show and attendance at our hospitality event, it was clear at Commodity Classic that farmers are very interested in Meristem’s take cost out message and the ways our products produce more bushels for less. The response we saw was also a testament to the performance of these products in 2025. It’s time to build on the success we saw in Texas by ripping cost out of production for farmers across the country in 2026.”

Commodity Classic welcomed over 12,000 attendees in San Antonio. Here are some of the highlights.

Meristem founder and CEO Mitch Eviston did an interview with Tyne Morgan and the U.S. Farm Report.
Meristem founder and CEO Mitch Eviston did an interview with Tyne Morgan and U.S. Farm Report.

Watch the U.S. Farm Report video clip with Eviston here here.

Click here for the interview with Bennett Musselman about MaxStax™ on naked soybeans.

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Bennett Musselman from Pickaway County, Ohio, did an interview with Ty Higgins from Ohio Ag Net about Meristem product performance on his farm.

Click here for a video interview Izaak Rathke did with John Dobberstein, Senior Editor of No-Till Farmer, Strip-Till Farmer, and Cover Crop Strategies.

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Izaak Rathke talked with with John Dobberstein about how Meristem products work with no-till.
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Melanie Burk, Meristem Senior Sales Director, talked about Upshift C Plus with Chip Flory on AgriTalk.
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Meristem President and Chief Marketing Officer Rob McClelland talked with Chip Flory on AgriTalk about patented Bio-Capsule Technology.

Click here for a write up by Dustin Hoffmann with Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network, who talked with Shane Brockhoff about Upshift C Plus.

Dustin Hoffmann and Shane
Dustin Hoffmann with Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network interviewed Meristem Area Director Shane Brockhoff about taking cost out of production in 2026.

Click here for an interview with Rita Frazer with RFD Radio Network and Peter Rousonelos about increasing farm profitability with Meristem.

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Peter Rousonelos, Meristem Senior Vice President of Business Development, talked profitability with Rita Frazer, RFD Radio Network.

Click here for the video interview with Nathan Louiso and Ty Higgins with Ohio Ag Net.

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Nathan Louiso, Meristem Vice President of Business Development, covered Meristem products and ROI with Ty Higgins, Ohio Ag Net.

Click here for the article with Shane Brockhoff with Ag Update. Click here for the video.

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Brockhoff also did an interview with Ag Update talking about taking cost out with the Meristem system, including MaxStax™ and Upshift C Plus.

Click here for the Ohio Ag Net Podcast featuring Doug Coe with Relentless Ag.

Ty and Doug Coe
Ohio Ag Net’s Ty Higgins talked with Doug Coe with Relentless Ag about the performance of patented Bio-Capsule Technology.

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