Hillco Technologies and John Deere have developed the Hillco Single Pass Round Bale System that offers continuous corn harvesting and round baling of stover with no stopping needed.

Farmers receive secure management of and easy access to an array of data-driven agronomic tools including Climate Pro by WinField — a new decision-support offering.

Nutra-Flo FlexEC technology and PureGrade EC are combination of products on the market that allow growers the ability to blend their choice of EC-based liquid insecticide and fungicide with starter fertilizer.

DuPont Pioneer is launching its new Encirca Yield services platform and enrolling growers today to help them improve timing, placement and management of critical inputs to enhance the overall productivity and profitability of every acre.

Corn has the potential to yield 500 bushels per acre. But according to the USDA, the average corn yield lands short at 158, and with an estimated 27% global population growth by 2050, the increasing demand will not be met.

Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. continues progress on the world's first electric multi-hybrid planter, with six planters having successfully been used for planting on test plots in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana this spring.

Midwestern BioAg Inc., Proteus Environmental Technologies and Grower's Secret Inc. (GSI) announce the completion of a strategic acquisition and investment in the future of Midwestern BioAg Inc.

InterSeeder Technologies, a new company affiliated with Penn State University, has launched commercial sales of InterSeeder, a multipurpose machine that simultaneously plants three rows of cover crops while spraying post-emergent herbicide and nitrogen fertilizer in single passes between four or six rows of knee-high corn.

HSPH says the study replicated a 2012 finding from the same research group that found a link between low doses of imidacloprid, a type of neonicotinoid insecticide, and Colony Collapse Disorder (CDD) — where bees abandon their hives over the winter and eventually die. It also found low doses of the neonicotinoid insecticide clothianidin had the same negative effect.

Verdesian Life Sciences, a plant health and nutrition company, announced that it has acquired Specialty Fertilizer Products (SFP), a Leawood, Kan.-based company focused on fertilizer efficiency products.