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Fall Nitrogen Applications Needed For Iowa Nitrogen Initiative Trials
Editor's Note: AAI supports the Nitrogen Initiative and encourages members to participate
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Fall nitrogen applications will be made soon, and there’s an opportunity to better utilize variable rate application equipment. To ensure the Iowa Nitrogen Initiative (INI) captures data for all nitrogen application timings, INI is actively recruiting participants for the 2025 crop year to include fall nitrogen applications utilizing variable rate technology.
Trials are conducted on corn fields using a variable rate prescription to apply synthetic nitrogen. To participate, growers and applicators should have:
- Fields that will be planted to corn for the 2025 growing season (either corn-on-corn or corn following soybeans)
- Combine equipped with a well-calibrated yield monitor
- Ability to apply a variable rate nitrogen prescription
Trial participants will receive a personalized end-of-season report on the optimal nitrogen rate for each trial in the program based on as-applied nitrogen rates, yield maps, and management data. Multiple trials are encouraged by each grower, whether in the same field or multiple fields! The trial only occupies 5 to 10 acres in a field.
The grower, agronomist, and applicator are encouraged to communicate and help set the nitrogen rates to be tested (typically five rates). Zero rates are encouraged to help understand the role the soil plays in providing nitrogen in the zero-rate plot. Trials with a zero rate will receive $600 to cover any yield loss.
For full information:
Those wishing to enroll in the study or ask questions can contact Melissa Miller, Project Director, Iowa Nitrogen Initiative at 515.567.0607 or millerms@iastate.edu.
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Attendee Registration Opens Nov. 1 | |
Discount For Early Registrations - SAVE $75! | |
All attendee, exhibitor, and sponsor information can be found at
AgribizShowcase.com
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Questions?
If you have any questions or need any additional information, email agribizshowcase@agribiz.org, or call the AAI Main Office - 515.262.8323.
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Full Reimbursement Available to AAI Member Companies For ISU PCQI Training Class | |
The Agribusiness Association of Iowa will provide full reimbursement of class registration for member company employees who complete the Animal Food PCQI Training at Iowa State University. The reimbursement is made possible through grant funding provided to AAI for our members.
The in person portion of the class takes place on Nov. 20 in Ames, Iowa. Class is limited to 40 participants. Full class details and information are available on the registration site. AAI members can click below and enter code "AAI" when completing the registration.
ISU Animal Food PCQI Training Registration
Reimbursement is available only to member companies which have renewed dues for the 2025 membership year. Iowa State University will provide AAI with a list of qualifying participants once the course is complete.
Contact Ben Drescher at 515.509.0940 or bdresche@iastate.edu for class information and details. Contact Heath DeYoung, AAI Membership Director, for questions about reimbursement at 515.868.0311 or hdeyoung@agribiz.org.
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Thank You For Your Membership! | |
As a member of AAI, you support the industry that is Creating Opportunities In Ag. Thank you for your membership and your commitment to the success of agribusiness in Iowa.
The following companies have recently joined or renewed their membership for the 2025 Membership Year.
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- 21st Century Cooperative
- AgHub Midwest
- Ag Processing, Inc.
- Altus CXO
- Berkley Agribusiness
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- Farmers Co-op Elevator Co.
- River Valley Cooperative
- Soil Solutions LLC
- Twin State, Inc.
- Van Diest Supply Company
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Not currently a member? Send us an email so we can follow up with your company and help you get connected to AAI. | |
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Propane Stakeholders Meeting
Attended by: Julie Kenney, AAI CEO
DNR Stakeholder Meeting On Air Quality Permitting Fees
Attended by: Julie Kenney, AAI CEO
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology Award Ceremony
Attended by: Julie Kenney, AAI CEO
Cultivation Corridor Innovation Celebration
Attended by: Julie Kenney, AAI CEO
World Food Prize
Attended by: Julie Kenney, AAI CEO
Member and Industry Visits
Visit by: Heath DeYoung, AAI Membership Director
Visit by: Heath DeYoung, AAI Membership Director
Visit by: Heath DeYoung, AAI Membership Director
Visit by: Julie Kenney, AAI CEO
Visit by: Julie Kenney, AAI CEO
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November 1
Attendee Registration Opens -
Agribusiness Showcase & Conference
https://agribizshowcase.com
November 14
Agribusiness Career Day Committee Meeting
10:00 AM - Video Conference
December 4
AAI Legislative Committee Meeting
10:00 AM - AAI Main Office Board Room
December 12
AAI Board of Directors Meeting
10:00 AM - AAI Main Office Board Room
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The paraquat training module is now live on Syngenta’s website. It is available at:
Paraquat Training
Links from Gramoxone 2.0 and 3.0 pages have been updated along with the EPA paraquat page.
- There is no charge for the training and is open to everyone.
- There is an English and Spanish version for the training.
- There is a one time registration form requiring name, email address, state, and pesticide application license number.
- An automatic renewal email will be sent out to remind users when their three (3) year recertification renewal is due.
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The ABCs of ESA: Exploring the EPA’s Herbicide Strategy | |
Friday, November 15, 2024 | 1:00 PM CST
Webinar Registration (from Meister Media Worldwide)
Join an expert panel for an interactive discussion on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final Herbicide Strategy and its impact on farmers, ag retailers, and suppliers.
Learn about mitigation measures to reduce pesticide movement from treated fields, compliance and enforcement of the Herbicide Strategy, and the roles ag retailers and suppliers are playing to support farmer-customers.
Speakers
- Lara L. Sowinski, Group Editor, CropLife Media Group
- Eric Sfiligoj, Editor, CropLife and CropLife IRON
- Eileen Bernard, Adjuvant Manager, Nutrien Ag Solutions
- Kyle Kunkler, Director of Government Affairs, American Soybean Association
- Scott Addy, VP Brand Technology, Wilbur-Ellis
- Eric Spandl, Senior Research and Development Manager, WinField United
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Sustainable aviation fuel could emerge as the next opportunity for substantial growth in U.S. biofuels production, with proper market and regulatory incentives. Agricultural feedstocks are poised to play a leading role in the supply chain for domestic SAF production. However, any meaningful growth opportunities will be largely dependent on favorable policies and adequate incentives for farmers and the wider biofuels industry.
According to a new report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange, the anticipated guidance for the 45Z tax credit, also known as the Clean Fuel Production Credit, will be a determining factor for the extent of agriculture’s role in SAF production. Authorized in the Inflation Reduction Act, the 45Z tax credit is intended to encourage domestic production of clean transportation fuels. It replaces the 40B tax credit for SAF production and is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2025.
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Source: Successful Farming
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Ag bankers reported more than 40% growth in the volume of new operating loans during the summer compared to the third quarter of 2023, said the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. “For the first time in at least two decades, the volume of loans larger than $1 million eclipsed the volume of loans smaller than $1 million,” said the regional Fed, based on a survey of banks across the nation.
“Weak profit margins in the crop sector continued to weigh on the farm economy even as prospects in the cattle industry remained strong,” said the Kansas City Fed in an Ag Finance Update. “Farm operating debt has grown at a rapid pace alongside lower crop prices and persistently high production costs while lending activity for other types of loans has softened.”
Small and mid-sized lenders drove the increase in the number of loans and the size of loans. Interest rates on farm loans remained elevated but loans were made for shorter periods overall. The average duration of non-real-estate loans shortened by five months from the previous quarter.
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A fully implemented ban on genetically modified corn in Mexico could disproportionately affect that nation’s lower-income consumers, according to a recently published study by agricultural economists with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
It would also have a negative impact on American farmers. Over 90 percent of corn grown in the United States is genetically modified, and Mexico is the second-largest importer of U.S. corn after China. Eggs and poultry meat account for about half of protein intake, and tortillas provide 13 to 20 percent of caloric intake for Mexicans, according to articles and studies cited in the Division of Agriculture study titled, Potential response of Mexican consumers to a ban on genetically modified maize imports.
“More than half of the people we surveyed in Mexico were not even aware of the ban, and of those who did know about it and supported it, many of them changed their opinion when they saw how much prices could go up and how many jobs could be lost,” said Brandon McFadden, a lead author of the study and a professor of agricultural economics and agribusiness for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the research arm of the Division of Agriculture.
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Source: Progressive Farmer
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As global hunger continues to escalate, 13 World Food Prize laureates are voicing frustration that this crisis has been overlooked in U.S. elections.
The laureates issued a letter and held a press conference Wednesday at the World Food Prize's flagship event, the Borlaug Dialogue. The World Food Prize, established to honor Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Iowa wheat breeder Norman Borlaug, recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to reducing hunger. Each of the 13 laureates who signed the letter is either an expert or an advocate committed to fighting hunger.
"We felt it was important to note that there has been virtually no mention of hunger -- let alone world hunger -- in this campaign on both sides at different levels of the federal government," said David Beckmann, a 2010 laureate who received the World Food Prize for his work as a nutrition advocate at Bread for the World.
The number and percentage of people facing chronic hunger globally has risen from 581 million (7.5%) in 2019 to 733 million (9.1%) in 2023.
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