Seed Today

The Ride Between the Rows series takes a look at Beck's seed corn production in Mount Pleasant, IA. Read about what was happening as harvest wrapped up and more in the Fourth Quarter issue of Seed Today: https://shorturl.at/S9XUA

Merschman Seeds, LLC has entered into a dealer agreement with Meristem Crop Performance. In the new engagement, Merschman Seeds will now carry Meristem’s product portfolio of biologicals, plant growth regulators, micronutrients, adjuvants, and nitrogen inhibitors to crop producers across their service territory: https://shorturl.at/ODnQo

In a "Seeds of Innovation" article, BioLumic Founder and Chief Scientific Officer Jason Wargent, Ph.D writes about the untapped potential of AgTech’s world-changing ideas for the seed industry. Wargent says, "One of the great tenets of science is that the world-changing ideas we do not yet have in our hands today; we may invent tomorrow. In the history of seed trait innovation, nobody has embodied this ethos more so than Dr. Norman E. Borlaug." For more, go to https://shorturl.at/6evRS

The seed sector’s role in tackling climate change was in the?spotlight as the International Seed Federation (ISF) participated at COP29 Agriculture Day. ISF participated in side events to highlight the role of high-quality seeds and the seed industry in creating more sustainable food systems and share results from the Seed Resilience project: https://shorturl.at/7TKa5

Bayer, Orbia Netafim expand collaboration to advance digital farming?technology: https://shorturl.at/MFBRv

Corteva Agriscience announced a breakthrough in one of the world’s most important staple crops – wheat – a first-of-its kind, proprietary non-GMO hybrid technology. While other crops like corn have exponentially benefited from hybrid technology over the years, challenges with wheat production systems have presented barriers to consistently and cost-effectively leveraging such game-changing technology – ultimately limiting the ability to deliver meaningful yield improvements: https://shorturl.at/Gdanq

Wyffels Hybrids announces a new sales region in southeast Minnesota, adding 22 counties and more than two million corn acres to the Wyffels footprint.?Leading the new sales region, Wyffels Hybrids welcomes Austin Dodd as Region Manager: https://shorturl.at/imBsu

McDonald’s USA, Lopez Foods, and Syngenta North America announced a collaboration that aims to increase feed efficiency and help reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions released per pound of meat produced, as part of efforts to improve the sustainability of beef production. Enogen? corn is an in-seed innovation available exclusively from Syngenta, that has been shown to increase feed efficiency in cattle and thereby help reduce emissions intensity compared to other corn: https://shorturl.at/dya3V

Beck's Hybrids announced the groundbreaking of its new soybean processing facility in New Madrid, MO. The company says the state-of-the-art facility will help meet the growing demand for soybeans in the Mid-South region, expanding opportunities for local farmers and strengthening Beck’s commitment to serving the agricultural community: https://shorturl.at/auNUw

The Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center?announced a?naming rights partnership for the?Fairgrounds Coliseum.?Beginning today, it will be named the Corteva Coliseum, in partnership with?Indianapolis-based Corteva Agriscience. This new naming?rights agreement replaces the previous Indiana Farmers Coliseum: https://shorturl.at/3EE5h