We are excited to announce the 2025 conference is scheduled for March 10-11 in Altoona, IA (outside Des Moines). We are reaching out to companies and individuals for potential speakers and are framing the agenda. Doug is working on the website to launch registration earlier than ever, and we are shooting for a launch date no later than 28 August. Please watch your emails and the website for updates and announcements.

A proposed label for KHNP0090, a dicamba herbicide from Bayer formerly known as XtendiMax, would remove any over-the-top (OTT) application of the herbicide in soybeans and restrict its use to no later than June 12 in that crop.

As young farmers are embracing autnomous tractor (new technology), this will created new concerns for the farm & ranch insurance industry. Make sure to review coverage for this new technology if you're assigned a claim. If coverage is like the Telsa cars, the driver has to be paying attention to the road not their phone or ipad. Interested to see how this plans out going forward. Click for the full article.

The FDA has completed testing that shows the US milk supply is safe from the H5N1 virus. This should relieve some concerns for dairy farmers and their insurance companies. Click for the full article.

It that time of year, we are seeing an increased number of anhydrous tanks on the road and in the fields. This flammable gas can't be seen. It isimportant that handlers have checked the tanks for leaks prior to fillling, and they should be traveling down the road at a maximum speed of 24 MPH. Unfortunately, mistakes with hanlding anhydrous can be deadly. Click for the full article.

Feed bin catchs fire at Lenoir County Farm. Multiple fight departments work to get the fire put out. The question of what caused the fire has not been answered. To see the news clip, click here.

Grain bin explosion causes a 300,000 bushel soybean bin to collapse in Iowa. Click to read the full article

Corn planting is 6% complete across the U.S., a point behind last year but also one point ahead of the five-year-average pace.

Existing stocks provision applies to stocks of previously registerd pesticide products currently iin the US and packaged, labeled, and releases for shipment prior to February 6, 2024. This will allow the use of Dicamba for the 2024 season with limitations based on the state of application. Click to read the full story

US District Court of Arizona, in Tucson, vacates 2020 registrations by Monsanto (now Bayer) for XtendiMax, BASF Engenia, and Syngenta Tavium. This means that farmers will not be able to use these products this year.