A collaborative fundraising effort involving Stine Seed Company and the Iowa FFA Foundation is back for the third consecutive year.
The program gives farmers the opportunity to purchase Stine seed corn and donate 100 percent of the seed value back to the Iowa FFA Foundation.
We talked to Dan Hansen, donor development manager for the Iowa FFA Foundation.
Interest in Fontanelle Hybrids’ Aqua View project continues to grow. Nick Lammers heads up the effort for Fontanelle. He says Aqua View is the company’s commitment to continually provide growers in the irrigated area of Fontanelle’s footprint with ways to maximize the value of their seeds and traits, and at the same time, utilize limited water resources. Brownfield’s Ken Anderson visited with Lammers about where the project has been and where it’s going.
DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred has announced plans for a new research facility in Dallas Center, Iowa.
The company says the new 50-thousand square foot facility will help support corn breeding and product development, and corn and soybean product testing, for farmers in western and central Iowa, eastern Nebraska and northwest Missouri.
Construction of the new facility is scheduled to begin this month with completion anticipated in late spring 2012.
Pioneer has had a research location in Dallas Center since 2004. The company says it has outgrown its existing facility.
When we stopped by the Hoegemeyer Hybrids tent at Husker Harvest Days, general manager Stephan Becerra filled us in on what’s new at Hoegemeyer, including their new drought-tolerant corn hybrids and refuge in a bag.
Syngenta’s Agrisure Viptera corn is good to go for 2012. That’s one of the messages conveyed by Syngenta Mike Leetch during an interview with Brownfield at Husker Harvest Days. Leetch also discussed Syngenta’s new business strategy, Goss’s Wilt in corn, and what’s new in soybeans.
Leonard Luebker and Matt Teply are sales agronomists with LG Seeds. Luebker covers eastern Nebraska and northeast Kansas. Teply’s territory includes western Nebraska as well as north-central and northwest Kansas. At Husker Harvest Days, they gave us an update on current crop conditions and talked about the LG corn hybrids that growers should consider for 2012.
The Channel seed brand, launched two years ago, has grown to become the industry’s third largest corn seed brand and fourth largest soybean brand. According to Channel marketing manager Heather Gotto, Channel’s success is based on its unique “Seedsmanship” approach, which focuses on providing farmers with expert advice, customized service and industry-leading seed products, including an expanded lineup of Genuity corn trait products and Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans for 2012. Here’s our interview with Heather at Husker Harvest Days.
At the Precision Planting display at Husker Harvest Days, we talked to dealer service associate Justin Kauffman about their various tools for improving depth control, singulation, seed environment and yield—including the new eVac meter, a vacuum retrofit system for finger meter and Kinze EdgeVac planters.
DeKalb’s 100th Anniversary commemorative chopper was on display at Husker Harvest Days. DeKalb-Asgrow communications manager Jenna Oesch tells us what they have planned for the custom-built bike.
Independently-owned Stine Seed Company has some exciting new products in its seed pipeline, including soybeans with triple-stacked herbicide resistance. At Husker Harvest Days, we talked to Stine district manager Galen Schnack of Westphalia, Iowa.
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