Articles Tagged with ''Monsanto''

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No-Tillers Against Syngenta Sale

RESULTS OF A recently conducted No-Till Farmer survey indicate growers are not happy with the sale of Syngenta to a state-owned Chinese company. While most growers didn’t favor a Monsanto buyout of Syngenta last summer, they’d have preferred that deal.
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Crop Protection 2016

New Tools to Fight Off Weeds, Insects and Diseases

Manufacturers unveil insecticides, herbicides and fungicides — some in novel combinations and applications — to help protect yields and profits.
Faced with commodity prices that mirror cost-of-production figures and continued challenges from resistant weeds, no-tillers continue to seek out crop protectants that offer flexibility in application and dependable performance.
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With Deere's Recent Purchase of Precision Planting, No-Tillers Concerned About Keeping Cropping Data Confidential

When Monsanto purchased the Precision Planting operation from central Illinois farmer Gregg Sauder in 2012, No-Till Farmer editors asked readers about their concerns with sharing electronically generated on-farm crop data. While six out of every 10 growers surveyed at that time were concerned about sharing their cropping data with suppliers, these worries have become worse with Deere’s recent purchase of Precision Planting’s hardware and technology from Monsanto.
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