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MINNETONKA, Minn. - Syngenta Seeds, Inc. has released 17 new NK brand soybean products, featuring more varieties with Syngenta's Aphid Management System (AMS). The new varieties, available in trial quantities for the 2011 growing season, provide growers...

The South Dakota Corn Growers Association (SDCGA) has re-elected Gary Duffy of Oldham to serve as its president for 2011. Also during the association's Feb. 24 board meeting in Pierre, Mark Gross of Bridgewater was re-elected vice president and Keith...

Federal regulators announced Friday that farmers can plant a corn genetically engineered for ethanol production as early as this spring. But as the corn and ethanol industries celebrated the decision, critics of genetically modified crops sounded...

Despite growing health concerns about atrazine, an agricultural weedkiller sprayed on farm fields across the Midwest, most drinking water is tested for the chemical only four times a year -- so rarely that worrisome spikes of the chemical likely go...

The most important question alfalfa growers deal with each year is whether an alfalfa stand is good enough to keep for one more year. While this process is best done in the fall, it often ends up being put off until spring. And the conditions this...

ST. CHARLES, Ill. - The Farm Progress Hay Expo marks its 25th birthday this year June 8 and 9 near Cannon Falls, Minn. The Expo will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day off of Highway 52 at the intersection of Goodhue County 9 and Goodhue County...

On Friday, April 1, an organization will be collecting food for local food banks along with showcasing the Halex interactive robot. The collection will be taken in the parking lot at Ken's SuperFair Foods, 2105 Sixth Ave. SE, Aberdeen from 1 to 5 p.m....

MINNETONKA, Minn. - Syngenta in North America announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted registration approval for the Agrisure Viptera 3220 trait stack, which offers corn growers dual modes of action against above-ground...

Despite growing health concerns about atrazine, an agricultural weed killer sprayed on farm fields across the Midwest, most drinking water is tested for the chemical only four times a year — so rarely that worrisome spikes of the chemical often go...

Lori Guerriero was on her knees cooing at and cajoling 14-month-old Alexis Garcia, the son of a friend, to smile at her while she tried to take his picture. Alexis was much more interested in me, though, a stranger with his own camera trying to capture...

The 59th incarnation of the Berlinale film festival was the usual teeming salmagundi of preening celebs, caterwauling paparazzi and geekily bespectacled industry hangers-on conspicuously toting red swag bags. But in Kulinarisches Kino, a little adjunct to...