At the same time downstream seed treatments have helped build new product and service portfolios for ag retailers, there’s another growing opportunity. The list of products to be applied in the seed ...

Brevant Seeds, Johnston Iowa, has introduced 47 new corn and soybean products for the 2026 growing season, with shipments ...

A new seed treatment designed to keep birds away from freshly planted fields has received regulatory approval. Arkion life Science LLC. recently gained approval for its Avipel bird repellent from the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nearly every foraging honey bee in the state of Indiana will encounter neonicotinoids during corn planting season, and the common seed treatments produced no improvement in crop ...

JACKSON, Minn. — A small company is in its third sales season, selling old-fashioned corn seeds in a new way. Mitch Rowe, 37, (rhymes with “now”) is CEO of Sure-Flex Hybrids LLC, a company he started ...

Add one more to that list: corn and soybeans. Iowa farmers plant about 10 million acres of soybeans, alongside 13 million to 14 million acres of corn. Soybeans are considered the perfect complementary ...

Idaho contrasts with its neighbors when it comes to sweet corn. Seed is the state’s sweet corn niche. Some 66% of the world’s supply of sweet corn starts with seeds developed in Canyon County, Idaho, ...

Corn (Zea mays), or maize, as it is called in many parts of the world, is one of the most diverse treasures bestowed upon us by our farming ancestors. Over the centuries Mesoamerican farmers, ...

Brittle corn stalks border a backyard garden in Flagstaff, Ariz., on a windswept mesa surrounded by ponderosa pine trees. They look dried-up and ordinary, but the garden's owner, Carol Fritzinger, ...