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Digital Planting Guide Introduced by Two Corteva Brands

Published March 5, 2021

Pioneer and Granular have created a proprietary digital planting guide. Granular Marketing Lead Ken O’Brien says this simple tool can accept data from over 20 different manufacturers."For the entire operation, the field-by-field level or the sub-field level, it allows the…

Activist Investor Cranks Up Pressure on Ag Companies

Published March 4, 2021

Starboard Value has increased its ownership stake in Elanco Animal Health and nominated three directors to the company’s board. This is the same investor group that nominated eight directors to the Corteva board in January and called for the removal…

Corteva Faces Challenge From Activist Investor

Published January 22, 2021

An activist investment firm, Starboard Value, is seeking to take control of Corteva and remove its CEO. Starboard has nominated eight candidates for Corteva’s 12-member board. In a letter, Starboard officials outlined its concerns with CEO James Collins’ management performance.…

Never Too Early to Start Planning for 2021

Published November 12, 2020

Farmers and agricultural businesses are gearing up for the 2021 planting season, which does include weed control strategies. Southern Minnesota-based Corteva Enlist technology specialist Steve Synder says there will be more soybean varieties with E3 traits next year. "They launched…

9th Circuit Court Rejects Request for a Rehearing on Dicamba Registration

Published August 18, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court is the only option left for Bayer, Corteva Agriscience and BASF to overturn the decision to vacate the registration of Xtendimax, FeXapan and Engenia. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request for a rehearing…

Ag Industry Represented on Administration Economic Recovery Panel

Published April 15, 2020

President Donald Trump is taking input from all sectors regarding a post-COVID-19 economy. For agriculture, Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Group includes American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall, Cargill CEO David MacLennan, Corteva CEO Jim Collins and Deere…

Corteva to Stop Producing Chlorpyrifos

Published February 7, 2020

Corteva says it plans to end production of the insecticide chlorpyrifos, the active ingredient in Lorsban, by the end of the year. Corteva says declining demand for the insecticide is the driver behind ending production.

The Sugarbeet Report

Published May 30, 2019

With most of the sugarbeet crop in the ground, Corteva Agriscience market development specialist Bridgette Readel says it's time to start thinking about weed control. Learn more in the Sugarbeet Report, made possible by SESVanderHave, Syngenta, Premium Ag Solutions, H&S…

New Company, More Choices

Published July 13, 2018

Corteva Customer Service Agronomist Bruce Due says the options created from the combination of the agriculture divisions of Dow and DuPont into Corteva will give farmers more choice. "This is one of the good things. We were hoping portfolios would be…

Denitrification is Associated with Heavy Spring Rains

Published June 28, 2018

Corteva Agriscience nitrogen management specialist Jake Wiltrout says the conversion from ammonium form of nitrogen to the nitrate form of nitrogen is influenced by temperatures. "If you just think generally about weather patterns, it typically warms up in the spring.…

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Digital Planting Guide Introduced by Two Corteva Brands

Activist Investor Cranks Up Pressure on Ag Companies

Corteva Faces Challenge From Activist Investor

Never Too Early to Start Planning for 2021

9th Circuit Court Rejects Request for a Rehearing on Dicamba Registration

Ag Industry Represented on Administration Economic Recovery Panel

Corteva to Stop Producing Chlorpyrifos

The Sugarbeet Report

New Company, More Choices

Denitrification is Associated with Heavy Spring Rains

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