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A Tough Year for Soybeans, Potentially a Record Year for Corn

Published November 6, 2025

This past spring featured a combination of very warm weather, a rapid cool-down, followed by heavy rains. Bayer Top Producer Account Manager Troy Sayler says those early-season conditions influenced the soybean crop at harvest time. "The beans were disappointing across…
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A New Role for Koscelny

Published October 30, 2025

Innovative Seed Solutions has named Jeff Koscelny as its CEO. Koscelny spent 15 years as the wheat commercial lead for Bayer Crop Science and WestBred. He has been working as a senior consultant since December. Previously, Koscelny was an agronomy…
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Safarian Leading Inari

Published October 30, 2025

Lisa Nunez Safarian is the new chief executive officer of the seed technology company Inari and CEO-partner of its founding company, Flagship Pioneering. Safarian was with Monsanto and Bayer for more than three decades, including time as the president of…
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Quality is Job #1

Published October 23, 2025

Countless quality checks are in place in the Bayer soybean seed processing facility in West Fargo. "We're looking for moisture, disease, mechanical damage or anything that will inhibit its ability to grow," said Site Lead Dan Sundberg. Each soybean goes…
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Schedule Ramps Up at Soybean Facility

Published October 23, 2025

The Bayer commercial soybean processing facility in West Fargo handles the equivalent of 100,000 acres of soybean seed each year across North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. This site moves through 2.8 million units or bags of soybean seed each year.…
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Excellent Quality Soybeans Moving Through Bayer West Fargo Plant

Published October 23, 2025

The Bayer Commercial Soybean Production facility in West Fargo began as a canola and sunflower plant owned by Interstate Seed. It was acquired by Monsanto in 2009 and converted to soybean seed processing. Now a Bayer company, the plant packages…
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New Mode of Action

Published July 31, 2025

Following applications in the United States, Canada and Brazil, Bayer has submitted regulatory paperwork for the first new mode of action for post-emergent weed control in over 30 years. This tool belongs to a new class of chemicals, providing lower…
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Lodging Issues Reported

Published July 30, 2025

July storms brought moisture and significant wind throughout the Red River Valley, damaging crops. Bayer Technical Product Manager Grant Mehring says the wheat around Fargo did take a hit from the storms. "For the last two weeks, I've seen a…
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Bayer-M2i Group Collaboration

Published July 14, 2025

Bayer has signed a development and distribution agreement with a French company called the M2i Group. The two companies have already been working together in Europe and some African countries. With the new agreement, that partnership will expand to the…
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