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  • 2 days ago | thedailyscoop.com | Rhonda Brooks

    Farmers will have a new foliar fungicide, Corteva Forcivo, to include in their disease management plans for the 2026 season, pending registration from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Forcivo will feature three modes of action – flutriafol, azoxystrobin and fluindapyr – to address foliar diseases in corn and soybeans via overlapping preventive and curative activity.

  • 6 days ago | thedailyscoop.com | Rhonda Brooks

    As Aaron Gingerich walked across jade-green fields of newly emerged corn plants this spring, he had a hunch about the crop that stand evaluations would soon validate: his 2025 crop was off to a winning start. Mindful of high input costs and low commodity prices, Gingerich pondered his next decision in late May – whether to keep the yield goals he had penciled out for the crop last winter or move them higher, based on what he was seeing in the field.

  • 1 week ago | thedailyscoop.com | Rhonda Brooks

    It was bad enough Illinois farmers affected by the May 16 dust storm saw priceless topsoil blow off their fields and into the hinterlands. Adding insult to injury, many corn and soybean growers now face not only damaged or destroyed crops but will need to reapply fertilizer and herbicide products in some scenarios, says Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist.

  • 2 weeks ago | thedailyscoop.com | Rhonda Brooks

    Anxiety levels among some members of the agricultural community were off the proverbial charts going into the unveiling of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s report on Thursday. The concerns were well-founded, based on the body of work done by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as an environmental lawyer, over the past decade.

  • 2 weeks ago | thedailyscoop.com | Michelle Rook |Rhonda Brooks

    Agriculture might have had a collective “we told you so” moment on Thursday, given its swift response to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s report unveiled earlier that day. Many farm organizations say the 68-page document, Making Our Children Healthy Again Report, is filled with “fear-based rather than science-based information about pesticides,” positioning that will sow seeds of distrust with the American public.

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