Dec 16, 2025
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In 2025, moisture was extremely prevalent in some areas, and with it, disease pressure. Across the lower corn belt from St. Louis to central Ohio, heavy rains came in the early season, impacting planting timing, while the central upper Midwest received excessive moisture mid-seas...
Nov 25, 2025
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With the strong disease pressures we saw in 2025, it’s a good idea to consider now how you’ll handle those potential threats in the upcoming season. Your crops (and your wallet) will benefit from a proactive approach to disease management. Here are six tips to plan ah...
Oct 28, 2025
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Your crop has its maximum potential before the seed ever hits the soil. Every day after planting, biotic and abiotic stresses can chip away at that seed’s yield potential. That’s why investing in an effective seed treatment is so important. Seed treatments help protec...
Sep 08, 2025
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On August 20, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final Herbicide Strategy, calling it an “unprecedented step” toward protecting more than 900 federally endangered and threatened species from the potential impacts of herbicide use.
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Sep 01, 2025
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Today’s agronomic landscape demands more from every application. Weed pressures are increasing with more than 250 weed species now resistant to at least one herbicide mode or site of action.1 Tank mixes are becoming increasingly complex, and increased weather variability is...
Aug 14, 2025
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Last season, southern rust was easy to find in cornfields across much of the Midwest. Unfortunately for farmers, all the elements of the disease triangle aligned in 2025. There were plenty of host crops when southern rust spores blew in, and warm humid conditions increased the su...