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Southern States Cooperative was founded in 1923 as the Virginia Seed Service by 150 farmers in Richmond, Virginia to help develop seeds. It expanded to distribution of feed in 1925, fertilizer in 1926 and farm supplies and petroleum shortly after. At the time, farmers in Virginia were unable to buy seed guaranteed to grow in the Commonwealth ...
1975 - Purchases Lankhartt and Lockett companies (cotton seed business). 1977 - Pioneer acquires Microbial Products division to develop bacterial strains for inoculation into silage. 1978 - Hy-Line International is spun off. 1981 - Pioneer becomes the market-share leader in North America corn sales. 1982 - Annual sales pass the US$10 million mark.
Stine Seed Company was founded by Harry Stine's father in the 1950s as Stine Seed Farm. [1] In 1997, they entered into a large-scale collaboration with Monsanto, focusing on increasing corn and soybean yields. [2] In 2014, Forbes estimated that the company was worth almost US$3 billion, with estimated sales of over $1 billion and margins over ...
The U.S. Geological Survey has installed a live, interactive camera at Congaree River below Cayce. The camera lets viewers see current conditions in real time. The camera lets viewers see current ...
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As a result, DeKalb was the leader in U.S. hybrid seed corn sales from the mid-1930s until the mid-1970s (Crabb 1948. Roberts 1999). [2] In 1982 DeKalb formed a joint venture with Pfizer, called DeKalb-Pfizer Genetics, and in 1985 the name was changed to DeKalb Corporation. The seed business was spun off as DeKalb Genetics Corporation in 1988. [4]
More than 1,250 uniformed personnel from the United States and Canada volunteer on Christmas Eve to answer phone calls and emails that NORAD receives while its Santa tracker is live.
The largest collection of nursery and seed trade catalogs in the U.S. is held at the National Agricultural Library where the earliest catalogs date from the late 18th century, with most published from the 1890s to the present. [1] Seed companies produce a huge range of seeds from highly developed F1 hybrids to open pollinated wild species. They ...