05/05/2022

If you are thinking fertilizer prices will come down after just one wild season, you may want to plan a little further out, suggests Gary Schnitkey, ag economist with the University of Illinois. Schnitkey recently told Brownfield Ag News the war in Ukraine and other factors point to further upward price pressure on anhydrous ammonia […]

04/25/2022

The Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, described by its originators as a “nationwide measure of the health of the U.S. agricultural economy,” dipped to a reading of 113 in March, down 12 points from February and 36% lower than March 2021, marking the weakest farmer sentiment reading since May 2020, the early days of […]

04/20/2022

“V5+Bio is really the full-meal deal for boosting crop performance with an in-furrow starter…” In the face of rising input costs, leaders at Frenchman Valley Farmers Cooperative, Imperial, Neb., say they are redoubling efforts to provide innovative options for farmers seeking better ROI (return on investment). They recently unveiled two new products under the Platte […]

04/18/2022

Call it a train wreck of oligopolies with acres and acres of unintended consequences. CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF), a global manufacturer of hydrogen and nitrogen products, today informed customers it serves by Union Pacific rail lines that railroad-mandated shipping reductions would result in nitrogen fertilizer shipment delays during the spring application season, according […]

04/08/2022

Two more leading agronomic professionals have joined Meristem Crop Performance, one of the fastest-growing crop input suppliers in America. Izaak Rathke becomes Meristem’s director of large farm Business accounts and Jim Sitar becomes sales representative for the upper western Corn Belt. Rathke and Sitar both have deep experience in helping growers boost their profitability with […]

04/07/2022

After gaining his PhD in Agronomy and Soil Fertility from Kansas State, Chad Godsey spent seven years as a precision ag cropping system specialist for Oklahoma State University. This broad field experience, added to his early years on a farm near Wray, Colorado, brought a clear realization of a gap he saw between university research […]

03/24/2022

Live “FIGHT BACK” Demo on March 30, at 10am CDT Join the editors of Strip-Till Farmer , Chad Gripp of Gripp Custom Farming and Peter Rousonelos of Meristem on Wednesday, March 30, at 10 a.m. CDT, for a live product demonstration webinar, “It’s Time to FIGHT BACK with Meristem Crop Performance™️.” You’ll learn: Sign up now. This is […]

Ever since Dale Wehmeyer left the University of Missouri Foundation Seed program to start his family-owned business Wehmeyer Seed, the focus has been on producing, conditioning, and distributing high-quality seed and the knowledge of how to make the most of each one. “We’re independent, we’re family-owned, and we are grateful for the part we play […]

03/21/2022

The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will host a series of listening forums to hear from those who have experienced firsthand the effects of mergers and acquisitions. Food and Agriculture is one of four sectors slated for this kind of forum. Others are Health Care, Media and Entertainment and Technology. According to […]

03/17/2022

It was in the mid-1990s that Chad Gripp was faced with some tough choices: Was there a future for him in farming? “Most of our farm equipment was at least 20 years old,” he remembers. “And our farm wasn’t big enough to also support me when I would be graduating from Illinois State.” But Gripp […]