The Scoop Podcast

Brandon Van Middendorp with LaCrosse Seed shares everything ag retailers need to know about selling cover crops.

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President of the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association Jean Payne shares while the state had more than 700 dicamba complaints in 2019, she’s thinking it will be less than 100 in 2020. Payne shares how a focus on pesticide stewardship—despite of the curveballs of COIVD-19 and the 9th circuit court’s June 4 ruling—led to this successful turnaround. And she shares her thoughts on the future of this herbicide technology.

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Richard Gupton, Senior Vice President of Public Policy at ARA, shares the latest from Washington DC–from trade, to transportation, to dicamba.

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Richard Gupton from the Agricultural Retailers Association joins the podcast to explain the latest regulations and perhaps more importantly exemptions as they apply to ag retailers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gupton shares measures that deal with potential driver shortages, relief from Hours of Service, and how to manage around state licensing offices being closed. He also shared a positive step with newly released OSHA guidance on respirators.

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With a footprint that roughly spans from Indianapolis to Louisville to Cincinnati, Premier Companies was named the ARA Retailer of the Year. And its CEO, Harold Cooper, recently joined Clinton Griffiths on AgriTalk Radio. 

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Galynn Beer, senior sales manager at AgroLiquid says he's really encouraging ag retailers to take on a consultative role with farmers as they're making crop fertility decisions for this 2020 crop year.

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Richard Gupton, Senior Vice President of Public Policy at ARA joins us on the podcast to talk about the recent Fly In and ARA policy priorities in 2020.

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With more than 35 years of experience working in the ag retail and application equipment sector, Arnie Sinclair is now leading the one-year-old Heartland AG Systems, which resulted from a merger of AG Systems Inc. and Heartland Ag–both of which had long legacies of serving ag retailers. Today, Heartland AG Systems is an application equipment dealer and manufacturer with a footprint across 10 states: Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. On the AgPro podcast, Sinclair shares how the application machinery market has changed and how serving ag retailers with application needs continues to change.

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On a panel at the 2019 ARA Conference and Expo, Alexander Reichert, Co-Founder and CEO, AgVend;
Dave Thomas, Executive Vice President, Helena Agri-Enterprises LLC; and John Demerly, CEO, CommoditAg continue to share their insights in the future of ag retail. The discussion includes how they see farmers embrace technology, who is engaging in e-commerce with ag inputs, and what the relationship with farmers looks like in the future.

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Join three industry leaders as they share the key drivers for change in ag retail. This podcast featured audio from a panel moderated by AgPro's Margy Eckelkamp at the 2019 ARA Conference and Expo. On the panel were: Alexander Reichert, Co-Founder and CEO, AgVend;
Dave Thomas, Executive Vice President, Helena Agri-Enterprises LLC; John Demerly, CEO, CommoditAg.

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