Area farmers have a new option when it comes to purchasing fertilizer for their crops. The company has three sales people for seeds and Fujan for chemicals. Carlstrom Drive in Fremont, has sold corn and soybean seed for about 1 1/2 years. Now we sell and supply ag chemicals for local farmers, said Randy Fujan, sales manager. Tech Partners 11,000-square-foot warehouse contains thousands of bags of corn and soybean seed, herbicide and more. The chemical sales are going to grow. He said Tech...

The combined company will have more than 200 employees. Weyforth-Haas is strong in brand strategy and public relations, and Bennett Kuhn is particularly strong in direct response marketing. We want to assure our customers that they can feel completely safe feeding any of the Iams and Eukanuba products now on store shelves, both wet and dry. What we can do together is really provide a complete package for marketing that companies are looking for, said Haas. Each agency will maintain...

The latest fertilizer tender, opened last week on Tuesday, March 27 was yet another failure in attracting interested bidders, as has become the trend for tenders opened over the last three months. With this harvest year projected to have the highest agricultural productivity rates, this trend has alarmed the Oromia Region Rural and Agriculture Development Bureau (ORRADB), which is attempting to import the urgently needed 25,000tn of Urea fertilizer through the Lome-Adama Cooperatives...

Land-grant institutions, theres one in every state, are the glue that holds the infrastructure of modern agriculture together. I heard from a number of former colleagues in academia, mostly commiserating about how bad things were for agriculture at land-grant universities. Finding new ways to use old products, non-partisan evaluation of future products, now that chemical companies see a market potential, adapting old production practices like tillage, and a myriad of other production...

With the cost of fertilizer quickly exceeding the potential increase in production realized from most perennial grass pastures, managers should carefully evaluate the point of diminishing returns in these systems, SDSU Extension Range Livestock Production Specialist Eric Mousel said. With the cost of fertilizer quickly exceeding the potential increase in production realized from most perennial grass pastures, managers should carefully evaluate the point of diminishing returns in these...

Have there been times when you come across someone that seems to be wearing an entire bottle of cologne or perfume and you have the same reaction? Or have you walked into your favorite restaurant that has just reopened after renovation with new carpet and paint and again it hits you? Have there been times when you come across someone that seems to be wearing an entire bottle of cologne or perfume and you have the same reaction? Or have you walked into your favorite restaurant that has just...