NE Cattlemen's Classic - NEW REVISED SCHEDULE- Thurs - Saturday 2013- Due to major winter snowstorm
Here is the revised schedule of events for Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the NE Cattlemen's Classic. Sunday's schedule stays the same.
Thursday, February 21st
2:00 pm: All Limousin, Balancer/Gelbvieh, Shorthorn in the barn
2:00 pm: Angus Show - ring 1
2:00 pm: Simmental Show - ring 2
3:30 pm: Charolais Show - ring 1
Friday, February 22nd
9:00 am: All Maine Anjou and Chimaines/ Chiangus in barn
10:00 am: Limousin Show
10:15 am: Shorthorn Show & Shorthorn Plus Show
11:30 am: Balancer/Gelbvieh Show
12:00 pm: Angus Sale
1:30 pm: Limousin Sale
Followed immediately by:
Balancer/Gelbvieh Sale
Shorthorn Sale
Shorthorn Plus Sale
Simmental Sale
Charolais Sale
5:00 p.m. Cattlemen’s Social at Dupont
5:00 pm: Classic Burger Bash
6:00 p.m. Cattlemen’s Antique Sale
6:30 pm: Replacement Heifer Pen of 5 Sale
Saturday, February 23rd - FFA Day at the Classic
FFA Day moved from Thursday to Saturday
7:30 am: Classic Judging Registration
8:00 am -3:00 pm: Junior Show Check-In
10:00 am: Maine Anjou/MaineTainer Show
11:00 am: Chimaine/Chiangus Show
1:00 pm: Maine Anjou/MaineTainer Sale
2:00 pm: Chimaine/Chiangus Sale
Followed immediately by:
Royal Ice Sale & Pen of 3 Heifer Sale
Fancy Pen of 3 Judging
Prospect Steer Sale - NEW
3:00 pm: Judging Contest Awards
4:00 pm: Junior Showmanship-Blow-n-Go
We will stop showmanship at 6:30 pm & resume following Supreme Row Judging if needed.
5:00 p.m. Social for cattlemen of ages at Principall Display
6:00 pm: Royal Dinner - all cattlemen welcome
7:00 pm: Supreme Row Judging
UNL Extension Offers Crop Scout Training in March
Crop scouts will learn how to better manage corn and soybean pests during a University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Crop Scout Training for Pest Managers program March 13.
The training provides in-depth and detailed information from university specialists.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., and the workshop is from 9 a.m-5 p.m. at the university's Agricultural Research and Development Center near Mead.
Cost is $125. Fees include lunch, refreshment breaks, workshop materials and instruction manual. Registrants should preregister to reserve their seat and to ensure workshop materials are available the day of the training session. Updated reference materials are included in this year's take- home instruction manual.
Topics include: how corn and soybean plants grow and develop; soybean and corn insect management; insect quiz; identifying weeds – plant morphology; using a key to identify weed seedlings; crop diseases and quiz; and nutrient deficiencies.
Certified Crop Advisor continuing education credits are available with 4 in pest management, 1 in crop management and .5 in fertility/nutrient management.
For more information or to register, contact UNL Extension at 402-624-8030, 800-529-8030, email Keith Glewen at kglewen1@unl.edu, or online at http://ardc.unl.edu/training.shtml.
UNL Research Reveals More Clues About How Plants Fight Disease
By studying how a disease-causing bacterium attacks plants, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have made important discoveries about how plants defend themselves against invaders. The information is helping them improve agricultural crops' armor against a broad range of diseases.
Plant pathologist James Alfano, graduate student Anna Joe and co-authors recently reported their findings in the European Molecular Biology Organization Journal. The work builds on Alfano's earlier discovery of a component in plant immunity that was reported in Nature, the international weekly journal of science, in 2007.
"It's exciting," said Alfano, a member of UNL's Center for Plant Science Innovation. "My work has always been about trying to make plants better at tolerating biotic stress. This paper is getting very close."
For Alfano, the trail to improve crops began with a bacterial pathogen. Pseudomonas syringae disables a plant's immune response by using a syringe-like mechanism to inject virulence proteins into plant cells, which helps the pathogen infect its host. He identified HopU1 as one of the bacterium's toxic proteins that suppresses immunity.
Following this lead, Alfano and colleagues studied how HopU1 operates. They found that it modifies RNA-binding proteins, a type of protein important in the process of turning a plant's DNA code into proteins. RNA-binding proteins were not previously known to be part of the immune system.
In the current journal article, Alfano's team and scientists at the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, U.K., report that they have identified how one of the RNA binding proteins targeted by HopU1, glycine-rich protein 7, or GRP7, acts in the plant's immune system. They discovered that GRP7 helps makes receptor proteins, which sit on plant cell walls and act as a surveillance system detect pathogens. By knocking out GRP7, the pathogen reduces the number of receptor proteins and, therefore, is more likely to go undetected long enough to infect its host.
In addition to helping elucidate how this bacteria attacks plants, identifying GRP7's involvement in innate immunity gave the researchers a potential tool to help boost immunity in plants. They genetically modified Arabidopsis, a well-studied plant, to make more GRP7 and found that the change enhanced the plant's ability to fend off pathogens, presumably by boosting the number of receptor proteins.
They also found that the immunity boost is effective against many other pathogens, including many viruses and fungi, as well as bacteria.
"It's actually a really good thing when you find something that's more broadly important for a number of diseases," Alfano said. "It really increases its potential value." It's particularly important for Midwestern agricultural crops, which are generally more susceptible to fungi and insects than bacteria.
Researchers now are testing whether proteins like GRP7 can enhance immunity in soybeans.
Next, they will test for strengthened immunity in other agricultural crops and against a wider range of pathogens. They also continue studying the molecular pathways involving GRP7 to better understand and find new ways to improve innate immunity in plants.
Because GRP7 also is found in animals, including humans, Alfano's research may lead to improvements in human health as well.
His co-authors are: Anna Joe from the UNL Center for Plant Science Innovation and the School of Biological Sciences; Byeong-ryool Jeong from the UNL Center for Plant Science Innovation and the Department of Plant Pathology; Valerie Nicaise, Freddy Boutrot, Isa Westedt and Cyril Zipfel from the Sainsbury Laboratory; and Dorothee Staiger from the University of Bielefeld, Germany
Grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Nebraska Soybean Board help fund this research.
EPA Releases Producer Information to Activist Groups
Early this week the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) was notified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the agency had been collecting information from states on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). This information was requested by extremist groups, including Earth Justice, the Pew Charitable Trust and the Natural Resources Defense Council through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and granted to them.
“When we reviewed the information submitted by the states and released by EPA, we were alarmed at the detail of the information provided on hard working family farmers and ranchers, family operations including my own,” said NCBA Past President J.D. Alexander, a cattle feeder from Pilger, Neb. “It is beyond comprehension to me that with threats to my family from harassment atop bio-security concerns, that EPA would gather this information only to release it to these groups. This information details my family’s home address and geographic coordinates; the only thing it doesn’t do is chauffeur these extremists to my house. For some operations, even telephone numbers and deceased relatives are listed.”
In January 2012, EPA proposed the Clean Water Act Section 308 CAFO Reporting rule to collect information from CAFOs and make it publicly available and readily searchable through their website. Cattlemen and women along with the Department of Homeland Security expressed concerns that this was not only a serious overreach of EPA’s authority and would create a road map for activists to harass individual families, but that the proposal would aid and abet terrorism and provide a very real threat to the nation’s food security. EPA later withdrew the 308 rule on these grounds, but NCBA has learned that the agency still intends to use this gathered data to create a national searchable database of livestock operations. EPA’s current action proves that our nation says it is concerned with national security, but does not care about personal small business security, said Alexander.
“Cattle producers won this issue with EPA’s decision to withdraw the rule and with the withdrawal we had hoped precautions would be taken by the agency to protect such information. Instead of protecting this information, EPA was compiling it in a nice package for these groups, all on the federal dole,” said Alexander. “Moreover, EPA knew, or had reason to know, this information would be readily accessible to all groups wishing to harm agriculture, through a simple and quick FOIA request. My question is, with government overspending and rumors from United States Department of Agriculture Secretary Vilsack threatening to shut down meat inspection to control spending, why is EPA using valuable government resources to do the dirty work of extremists, activists and terrorists?”
The information released by EPA covers CAFOs in more than 30 states, including many family farmers and ranchers who feed less than 1,000 head and are not subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act.
EPA Releases Confidential Farm Data
The National Pork Producers Council is extremely troubled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s release earlier this month to several activist groups of personal information on U.S. hog farmers and on other livestock and poultry farmers and, possibly, business-confidential data on their farms.
EPA in early February released raw data from farms in 30 states, including, in some instances, farmers’ home addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses as well as information on employees of operations, to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Earth Justice and the Pew Charitable Trusts under Freedom of Information Act requests the groups filed.
“The release of data containing personal and confidential information is extremely troubling; we feel betrayed,” said NPPC President R.C. Hunt, a hog farmer from Wilson, N.C. “We are very concerned for farmers and with the ability of those opposed to modern livestock and poultry farms to manipulate that data to advance their extremist agenda.”
EPA gathered the information despite being forced last year to drop a proposed reporting rule for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) because of concerns about the privacy and biosecurity of family farms. The regulation was the result of a 2010 “sweetheart” deal the agency entered with environmental groups, including NRDC. The deal was struck while EPA and livestock and poultry producers were in the middle of a lawsuit brought by NPPC over EPA’s 2008 CAFO rule, which required large livestock and poultry operations that propose to or that might discharge into waterways to obtain Clean Water Act (CWA) permits. A federal appeals court ruled that the CWA requires permits only for farms that actually discharge.
In dropping the reporting rule, EPA indicated it still wanted to collect data on CAFOs to “more effectively carry out its CAFO permitting programs on a national level and ensure that CAFOs are implementing practices to protect water quality and human health.” But the agency gathered the data from state water agencies without informing them about its intention to share the information with outside groups, including through a searchable national database. NPPC is reviewing the files that EPA released to better understand the scope and content of the data.
“What’s ironic,” Hunt said, “is that, in the name of transparency, EPA released information in secret and violated the privacy rights of farmers across the country.”
Vilsack on OIE Recommends US' BSE Risk Status Be Upgraded
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement about notification received today from the Scientific Commission for the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) recommending that the United States' risk classification for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) be upgraded to negligible risk:
"I am very pleased with this decision and recommendation by the OIE's Scientific Commission. This is a significant achievement for the United States, American beef producers and businesses, and federal and state partners who work in coordination to maintain a system of three interlocking safeguards against BSE that protect our public and animal health. Being classified as negligible risk for BSE by the OIE will also greatly support our efforts to increase exports of U.S. beef and beef products. In recommending that the United States receive negligible risk classification, the Commission stated that the risk assessments submitted for their evaluation were robust and comprehensive, and that both our surveillance for, and safeguards against, BSE are strong. U.S. beef and beef products are of the highest quality, wholesome and produced to the highest safety standards in the world. The United States continues to press for normalization of beef trade with several nations in a manner that is based on science and consistent with international standards. U.S. food and agricultural exporters and consumers worldwide benefit when countries adopt international standards."
BACKGROUND
Last year, the United States submitted an application and supporting information to the OIE's Scientific Commission to upgrade the United States' risk classification from controlled to negligible. The Commission, in turn, conducted a thorough review before recommending that the risk classification for the United States be upgraded to negligible. Before the OIE's annual General Assembly meeting in Paris, France, in May 2013, delegate countries will have the opportunity to review the Commission's recommendation. The United States expects that formal adoption of negligible risk status for the United States will occur at the General Assembly meeting in May, when it is considered.
The OIE determines a country's risk status based on actions the country has taken to manage the risk of the disease. These actions include instituting a strong ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban, strictly controlling imports of animals and animal products from countries at risk for the disease, and conducting appropriate surveillance.
The OIE Code, which is based on the latest science and current knowledge concerning BSE, provides guidelines for the safe trade of animals and products based on the country's risk status and the risk presented by the specific item being traded. Negligible risk is the lowest risk level under the OIE Code. Countries defined as negligible risk have conducted extensive surveillance and testing in domestic cattle to demonstrate a minimal risk for BSE.
The OIE administers and governs the foundational international standards on animal health as well as trade in livestock and animal products. With a total of 178 Member Countries, including the United States, the OIE is recognized as a reference organization by the World Trade Organization (WTO), the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. The official recognition of disease status by OIE of Member Countries is of great significance for international trade and constitutes one of the most important links between the OIE and WTO.
The United States has a longstanding system of three interlocking safeguards against BSE that protects public and animal health in the United States, the most important of which is the removal of specified risk materials from all animals presented for slaughter. The second safeguard is a strong feed ban that protects cattle from the disease. The third safeguard is our ongoing BSE surveillance program that allows USDA to detect the disease if it exists at very low levels in the U.S. cattle population.
NCBA Statement on OIE Classification of U.S. as "Negligible" Risk for BSE
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President-Elect Bob McCan, a cattleman from Victoria, Texas, made the following statement about notification received today from the Scientific Commission for the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) recommending that the United States' risk classification for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) be upgraded to negligible risk:
“This announcement by OIE’s Scientific Commission is great news for U.S. cattle producers. The U.S. beef industry has worked with government officials and scientists to implement multiple interlocking safeguards to prevent BSE from taking hold in our country. The most important of these safeguards is the removal of specified risk materials – or the parts of an animal that could contain the BSE agent should an animal have the disease – from all animals presented for slaughter in the United States. Being classified as negligible risk for BSE by the OIE is proof that these safeguards are working and protecting the public and animal health against BSE."
“The safety of our cattle and our beef is the top priority for American beef producers. Recognition by OIE that our cattle and our beef are of the highest and safest quality is important in promoting U.S. beef in our growing export markets. We applaud USDA for working with the international scientific community and industry leaders on this issue.”
Drought Impacts U.S. Soybean Quality Results
According to a recent soy-checkoff-funded study, the overall oil levels in last year's U.S. soybean crop increased over the previous year, while average protein fell. United Soybean Board Customer Focus Action Team Chair Sharon Covert says U.S. soy's biggest users pay attention to those results.
"The oil and protein levels in our soybeans are very important to our customers," says Covert, a soybean farmer from Tiskilwa, Ill. "We should take every possible course of action to improve our soy oil and meal, which will help us protect and expand our markets."
The results of the soy checkoff's annual U.S. Soybean Quality Survey found the oil level in the overall U.S. soybean crop rose by 0.3 point to 18.5 percent last year. And protein dropped a half-point to 34.3 percent. But for a crop baked by drought conditions for much of the year, that's pretty good, says the scientist in charge of the research.
Seth Naeve, Ph.D., who conducts the study, says the drought likely had a hand in holding protein levels down.
"Weather has a dramatic impact on soybean quality," says Naeve, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota. "Last year, the drought affected different regions differently, so we weren't exactly sure how quality would play out. Overall, I think we're happy that quality was as good as it was."
Beginning with the 2013 crop, the checkoff will be implementing a new program to monitor weather conditions in soybean test plots and correlate that information with quality outcomes and variety performance. This work will complement the Soybean Quality Survey.
The checkoff uses the survey to give buyers a preview of protein and oil levels. Naeve says he recently joined the U.S. Soybean Export Council in presenting the results to buyers in Asia, who want to know what U.S. farmers are doing to improve quality long-term.
Animal agriculture consumes nearly 98 percent of U.S. soy meal, feeding the protein-rich meal to poultry, swine, fish and other animals. The food industry, which uses nearly 70 percent of soy oil, depends on an abundant supply of healthy and functional oil to use as frying oil or as an ingredient in many food products.
Naeve says variety selection is a farmer's best tool to improve soybean quality - even during a drought.
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Update
While trade talks between the United States and European Union have yet to begin, the National Corn Growers Association, along with many other agricultural trade associations and members of Congress, are working to ensure U.S. agricultural interests receive proper attention in any final agreement. For NCGA members, the most obvious challenge is approval of corn and corn products derived through biotechnology. The EU is a market that holds great potential, however, that potential is often overshadowed by delays in approvals and regulatory decisions dictated by political pressure and not science-based evaluations.
"Completing a comprehensive trade agreement with the European Union has gained national attention, and we want to reassure farmers that NCGA is raising the concerns of America's corn farmers with our trade negotiators," said NCGA Trade Policy and Biotechnology Action Team Chair Jim Zimmerman. "Improving our country's trade ties with the EU can mean more jobs and economic opportunities here at home. We are encouraged that our negotiators want to take advantage of this historic opportunity to expand markets for U.S. farmers and ranchers and to tear down barriers which currently impede our agricultural exports."
On February 12 during his State of the Union address, President Obama announced that his Administration plans to notify Congress of its intent to launch negations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union. This decision aims to improve the economic relationship between the United States and European Union and add to the more than 13 million American and European jobs already supported by transatlantic trade.
While agricultural trade associations had a positive reaction, they cautioned that the EU's long-standing sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to agriculture exports must be addressed. Obama administration officials have pledged that they will work to eliminate the European Union's trade barriers on meat and genetically engineered crops before a U.S.-EU trade agreement is completed. On February 13, administration officials indicated that negotiations will have no upfront exclusions and will attempt to achieve a comprehensive deal across all sectors over the course of the next 18 months.
Following the State of the Union address, the U.S.-EU High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth released its report to the public. The final report includes a recommendation for chapters on SPS and TBT regulatory issues that go beyond World Trade Organization principles.
Fertilizer Prices Steady Overal
Retail fertilizer prices continued their pattern of relative steadiness the second week of February 2013, according to data collected by DTN. This is the 15th straight week retail prices have remained nearly unmoved. Half of the eight major fertilizers edged higher compared to last month, but these moves were fairly minor. Urea had average price of $576 per ton, 10-34-0 $610/ton, UAN28 $382/ton and UAN32 $435/ton. Four other fertilizers were lower compared to the second week of January, but again the move lower was extremely small. DAP had an average price of $622/ton, MAP $666/ton, potash $598/ton and anhydrous was at $862/ton.
On a price per pound of nitrogen basis, the average urea price was at $0.63/lb.N, anhydrous $0.53/lb.N, UAN28 $0.68/lb.N and UAN32 $0.68/lb.N.
Two of the eight major fertilizers are still showing a price increase compared to one year earlier, DTN's survey found. Anhydrous is now 11% higher, while urea is 4% higher compared to last year. Five fertilizers are single digits lower in price compared to February 2012. UAN28 and UAN32 are both 1% less expensive, DAP is 5% lower, MAP is 6% lower and potash is 9% less expensive compared to last year. The remaining fertilizer is now down double digits from a year ago. 10-34-0 is 25% less expensive from a year earlier.
January Milk Production up 0.6 percent
Milk production in the 23 major States during January totaled 15.9 billion pounds, up 0.6 percent from January 2012. December revised production at 15.7 billion pounds, was up 1.7 percent from December 2011. The December revision represented a decrease of 5 million pounds or less than 0.1 percent from last month's preliminary production estimate.
Production per cow in the 23 major States averaged 1,871 pounds for January, 11 pounds above January 2012.
The number of milk cows on farms in the 23 major States was 8.50 million head, 2000 head less than January 2012, but 6,000 head more than December 2012.
Iowa Milk Production
Milk production in Iowa during January 2013 totaled 391 million pounds, up 2 percent from January 2012, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service – Milk Production report. The average number of milk cows during January, at 205,000 head, equaled the January 2012 average inventory. Production per cow averaged 1,905 pounds, up 2 percent from January 2012.
2012 Annual Milk Production up 2.1 Percent from 2011
The annual production of milk for the United States during 2012 was 200 billion pounds, 2.1 percent above 2011. Revisions to 2011 production decreased the annual total 81 million pounds. Revised 2012 production was up 40 million pounds from last month's publication.
Production per cow in the United States averaged 21,697 pounds for 2012, 361 pounds above 2011. The average annual rate of milk production per cow has increased 15.7 percent from 2003.
The average number of milk cows on farms in the United States during 2012 was 9.23 million head, up 0.4 percent from 2011. The average number of milk cows was revised up 2,000 head for 2012.
NCBA Spring Membership Drive Off to a Strong Start
The 113th Congress is in session and the House and Senate are already discussing many legislative issues that directly affect cattlemen and women including the farm bill, disaster assistance programs, border security and immigration reform and environmental regulations. As the country’s oldest and largest organization representing the cattle industry, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) has a strong presence in Washington, D.C. and a great opportunity to represent the forceful, unified voice of America’s beef producers.
According to NCBA Policy Division Chair Philip Ellis, a fifth-generation rancher from Chugwater, Wyo., NCBA is urging cattle producers to join in this fight. Ellis stated that NCBA’s strong membership base ensures the voices of cattle producers are heard loud and clear.
“This organization is producer-owned and member driven. It’s important that the policy priorities set by NCBA are geared toward sustaining this industry for future generations,” said Ellis. “Having our voices heard in Washington, D.C., on important issues such as border security and immigration, along with Clean Water Act legislation and the farm bill is crucial to the success of our industry.”
Ellis went on to add that now more than ever, the livestock industry is under fire from groups such as radical animal rights activists who are working to undermine advances in animal agriculture as they push their extremist agendas. He stated that even though NCBA already has a strong membership base and many legislative and regulatory victories under its belt, the organization can become even stronger by increasing its membership.
“NCBA achieves amazing success when we come together as a collective voice for our members and as an association representing thousands of cattlemen and women,” said Ellis. “I encourage participation of family farmers and ranchers in this process, both at the grassroots level and through affiliation with our organization in order to defend our industry against government regulations and policies which negatively affect producers and our nation’s agricultural economy.”
In an effort to foster productive relationships and further the priorities and goals of the cattle industry, NCBA is also partnering with its state affiliates to increase membership within state organizations at the grassroots level.
During this membership drive, NCBA is partnering with New Holland to reward states for their membership efforts. The state with the most new NCBA members before Mar. 31, 2013, will receive a one year lease on a New Holland baler or tractor. State affiliates that show an increase of NCBA membership by 15 percent or more will also be entered to win two additional one year leases. Winners will be announced at the 2013 NCBA Legislative Conference, Apr. 16-18 in Washington, D.C. For complete information on the campaign, member dues/benefits and recruitment incentives, visit www.beefusa.org or call 1-866-BEEF-USA.
CHS Inc. CEO Carl Casale to deliver keynote address at 2013 Soy & Grain Trade Summit
Carl Casale, president and chief executive officer of CHS Inc., a leading energy, grains and foods company, will deliver the keynote address at the 8th annual Soy & Grain Trade Summit, to be held in Minneapolis, Minn., on October 21-23, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency.
Casale will deliver his presentation, "Staying Relevant in a Rapidly Changing World" during the opening plenary session on October 22. He will discuss how a large organization such as CHS identifies and selects opportunities in the marketplace and how it is adapting its organizational structure and marshaling resources to pursue them. According to Casale, "The most important driver of our success will not be to implement a strategy developed in a vacuum but rather how well we execute a focused business strategy based on reality that addresses the needs of all our stakeholders."
As CEO of CHS, a Fortune 100 company owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the U.S with corporate offices in Inver, Minnesota, Casale is responsible for leading the organization during a period of rapid change in the global energy, grain and food ingredient supply chains.
Casale joined CHS as CEO in January 2011 following 26 years in the global agribusiness sector, most notably with Monsanto, Inc. as CFO. He has served on the board of the National 4-H Council and currently serves on the boards of the National Cooperative Refinery Association, Ventura Foods, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Greater Twin Cities United Way and the Minnesota Business Partnership.
"We are delighted to welcome Mr. Casale as our keynote speaker at this year's Summit," said Philippe de Laperouse, event chair and managing director at HighQuest Partners, the global agribusiness strategic advisory firm hosting the Soy & Grain Trade Summit. "His sharing of his perspective on trends and opportunities in the global agricultural marketplace and CHS' experience as a supplier of energy, crop nutrients, grain marketing services, livestock feed, food and food ingredients and more through its domestic and global operations will be invaluable to the attendees at the Summit."
Additionally, attendees will have access to networking with a rarely-assembled, cross-section of key representatives, from merchandisers to traders to shippers and end customers, providing unique opportunities to negotiate business face-to-face for oilseeds (soft seeds and tropical oils), feed grains and their derivative products. Learn more at www.soyandgraintrade.com.
MasterLock Adjuvant Optimizes Crop Protection Applications
Today’s farmers are constantly adapting their management practices to combat pests and get the maximum return from their fields. To help farmers enhance their disease and insect management programs, WinField developed MasterLock® adjuvant.
“Combating yield-limiting pests involves more than just selecting the right crop protection product,” said Bruce Senst, director, Winfield Adjuvants. “In order to get the most from their crop protection investments, farmers need to ensure the products they select are reaching the areas pests attack.”
New MasterLock® adjuvant combines the proven deposition, canopy penetration and drift reduction of InterLock® adjuvant with new DropTight™ spreader-sticker technology. More of the spray gets into the crop canopy and stay put for optimized pesticide performance. MasterLock® works effectively with fungicides and insecticides and may be used with herbicides and other crop protection products.
Simply put, MasterLock® adjuvant reduces the amount of fine particles that evaporate or drift away. That leaves more spray particles within the most effective size range for more consistent coverage and better canopy penetration. It can be used with both ground and aerial applications.
“Current management practices present a new wave of challenges for farmers,” said Senst. “For instance, planting continuous corn makes crops more susceptible to disease. Utilizing MasterLock® adjuvant to increase the efficacy of plant health products can help battle this issue.
In addition to controlling spray drift, the adjuvant features DropTight™ technology that helps enhance droplet adhesion for less bounce and better droplet spreading. This means improved droplet coverage, more pesticide uptake and optimized control.
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