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Prices continue to rise at auction sales

2014 rebate roundup
Corporate pricing programs on your spring inputs change every year. Here’s our annual listing of the major companies’ latest offerings
Pricing programs for 2013
Who’s got the best deal on farm chemicals for 2013? It’s hard to compare prices until you understand each company’s programming. Gerald Pilger rounds up the details
Company prices on competing products can be difficult to compare until you now the details behind the pricing packages. These are the reward and rebate programs offered by the major pesticide manufacturers for the 2013 growing season. Arysta LifeScience Arysta LifeScience offered growers an Early Purchase Offer on Everest 2.0. Farmers who purchased an Everest […] Read morePre-seed burn-off herbicides
Make sure you’re following good chemical rotations. Know your active ingredients before you plan your pre-seed burn-offs
Time and again farmers are warned about the dangers of the development of herbicide resistance. They are told over and over not to use the same product repeatedly and to rotate chemical groups. Yet glyphosate, arguably modern agriculture’s most important herbicide, is still used every year on many farms, and by some farmers multiple times […] Read moreFungicides and plant health
2012 rebate and reward programs
Group 1 active ingredients
Controlling chickweed and cleavers
Four Rules For Nozzle Selection
Extract More Value From Ergot-Infested Grain
Grainews is written for farmers and often by farmers. It is about putting theory into practice on the farm. Each issue also features Cattleman’s Corner for cow-calf producers and farmers with mixed cattle and grain operations.