Golden Harvest® Xperience Gives Farmers a Plan
At Farm Progress Show last week, Golden Harvest representatives were giving farmers a taste of GHX, the Golden Harvest® Xperience.
“It’s our digital platform that helps farmers place products on the best acre possible, gives them management tips and also agronomic insights throughout the year,” said Golden Harvest Marketing Head Eddie Kahle. “So it uses some AI to help understand what diseases pests might come in at different times a year, alerts the seed advisor and the farmer of the issues, and proposes possible solutions.”
Kahle says AI is giving farmers a new way to get ahead of yield-robbing problems. “So in the past, we scout the field, we see a pest, and then we spray or we change a management technique. With AI, what we’re doing is taking weather patterns and different environmental factors and trying to predict what pests will introduce themselves at different times of the year so that we can be ahead of the curve rather than being reactive like we are in the past.”
Learn more in this interview.
FPS26 Eddie Kahle, Golden Harvest 5:19
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The Passing of Ray Gaesser
Ray Gaesser at 2018 Bayer AgVocacy Forum
Ray was an advocate for conservation and strong trade relationships and was well known in the agricultural community. An outpouring of sympathy was posted on his Facebook page Saturday within minutes of the first news of his passing. Media outlets DTN and Agri-Pulse paid tribute in stories about him and reaction to his passing.
Like many in the farm media, we interviewed Ray on several occasions over the years. Here is one from back in March 2018 at Commodity Classic when he received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Soybean Association and was running for Iowa agriculture secretary.
Listen to that interview here: Interview with Ray Gaesser, Iowa farmer
Mass of Christian Burial for Ray Gaesser, 73, of the Corning/Lenox area will be held Saturday, September 19, 2026, at 10:00 AM at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Lenox. Visitation will be held Friday, September 18, 2026 at St Patrick’s Catholic Church Parish Center from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed towards Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund OR The Ray Gaesser Choir Scholarship Fund.
President Trump Reinforces Commitment to Ranchers
Flanked by beef producers from around the country, President Donald Trump signed Executive Orders on Friday and USDA made additional announcements supporting America’s ranchers and protecting our nation’s cattle herd.
The orders and announcements include efforts to allow on-farm meat processing, stricter enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act, protecting herds from gray wolves, and studying implementation of mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (MCOOL). Much of what is outlined in the EOs is in the form of studies and reports to be done, or requires additional action at the state or federal level, such as MCOOL, which was authorized in the 2002 and 2008 farm bills but was challenged by Canada and Mexico when it was finally implemented and ultimately ended in 2015. When President Trump was asked about implementing labeling, he said, “I understand Congress has something to do with that one, so we’re putting it in front of Congress right away. It should be no problem.”
Among those who joined President Trump in the White House for the announcement were American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall, R-CALF USA President Dave Hyde, ranchers Jim Mundorf, Casey Murph, and Amanda Radke, and former NFL Hall of Famer and first generation Wisconsin rancher Joe Thomas.
“I had the important opportunity today to speak with President Trump after the Oval Office event to let him know that the plan to increase beef imports is hurting farm families,” said Duvall in a statement after the Oval Office event. “I shared with him that we have witnessed significant price drops for cattle across the country. It has caused a setback to rebuilding the U.S. herd. We’ll continue to urge the administration to reverse the decision to increase imports before cattle prices fall further.”
President Trump was asked what countries were importing beef under the recently announced plan. “It’s coming from Argentina, it’s coming from Brazil, it’s coming from a couple of other places, we have our inspectors down, it’s very clean, it’s very good,” said Trump. “And we’re doing it in a very limited fashion because our ranchers can handle it. But our ranchers really needed a little bit of help. And our ranchers want the prices to be down too. They want to see the prices come down.”
“Since 1980, we’ve lost 600,000 ranchers in this country,” said Sec. Rollins. “We cannot continue freedom in America without those who feed and fuel us. And so today, this signal to our ranchers, the signal to rural America, but really the signal to the world is that American ranching and American farmers are back.”
Amanda Radke, a sixth generation rancher from South Dakota who was at the Oval Office event, said the president’s actions are a great start to restoring confidence for the nation’s cattle ranchers to retain heifers and rebuild the herd. “These actions aren’t an overnight fix to the broken system that American beef cattle producers have had to operate under for so many years, but it’s a historic step in the right direction that we should all celebrate,” Radke said on her social media accounts.
Listen to the President and others at the signing.
President Trump and beef producers 28:27
Alltech and EnviroLogix to Provide Mycotoxin Results on RAPIREAD™
Animal health and nutrition leader Alltech has partnered with mycotoxin detection technology company EnviroLogix to make EnviroLogix mycotoxin results available within the Alltech® RAPIREAD™ mycotoxin testing program.
The integration provides a seamless connection between the EnviroLogix QuickScan system and RAPIREAD, with test results automatically transferred into the RAPIREAD platform — no separate RAPIREAD app or Data Sync Tool required. Customers can test using their familiar EnviroLogix workflow and access results alongside RAPIREAD risk-analysis tools in one connected platform, making it easier to interpret mycotoxin results in the context of feed quality, animal health and nutritional decision-making.
Mycotoxin testing is most valuable when results are easy to access, interpret and apply. By bringing diagnostic results, historical data, expert interpretation and consistent reporting into one platform through this integration, the Alltech Services Portal helps the feed and livestock industry move beyond individual test results to better understand trends over time. This connected view supports more informed feed, quality control and nutritional decisions, helping to identify risks earlier, communicate results more consistently and take action with greater confidence.
Pivot Bio Invests in the Future of Farm Families at FPS
Sec. Rollins and Pivot Bio CEO Chris Abbott
Pivot Bio CEO Chris Abbott announced a multi-million commitment to the the next generation of American agriculture through Pivot Pathways: A Generation Grant. Beginning with the 2027 growing season, eligible farmer customers can receive annual Generation Grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 per farm family to support a child, grandchild or someone connected to the future of the farm, with the opportunity to invest those funds through a Trump Account.
“This is a grant program that extends not just to our employees, where we will make Trump account donations for each of our employees’ children, but also for each of our customers,” said Abbott. “These are thousands of customers we reach every single year. And the Trump account program allowed us to do that.”
“President Trump’s vision is that our children will begin adulthood with an asset of their own and an opportunity to participate in America’s economic success,” said Rollins. “And today, a private American agricultural company is stepping forward to build on that vision with their own dollars. Pivot Bio is currently the only agricultural company to publicly announce a commitment tied to these accounts. And I hope, Chris, that you start a new trend of many, many ag companies that will do the same for their customers and for their employees. We are investing in America’s children, Pivot Bio is investing in America’s farm families and together we are investing in the future of American agriculture.”
Sec. Rollins later joined Abbott in presenting $3,000 to Evelyn, Hudson, and Hans Fenner, the children of Devon and Jonathan Fenner of Michigan – $1,000 for each child. “This is just the beginning,” Abbott promised. This is going to happen every year. So this is something we’re committed to investing in the next generation of agriculture.”
Listen to the presentation here:
FPS26 - Pivot Bio and Rollins 8:08
RFA Connects with Farmers at Farm Progress Show
RFA at the Farm Progress Show
“This is one of our favorite events of the year because it really gives us a chance to put our finger on the pulse of what farmers are talking about,” said RFA President and CEO Geoff Cooper. “We have some amazing conversations with farmers who come up and kind of tell us about what’s happening on their operations and the things that are keeping them up at night, answer a lot of their questions about what’s happening in the ethanol world and with policy and regulatory developments. But more than anything, it’s just a good way for us to make sure we’re connecting every year with farmers, who of course are tremendously important to what we do in the ethanol industry.”
Cooper says the farm economy is suffering right now, but ethanol continues to be a bright spot and farmers know it. “There was farming before ethanol and there’s been farming after ethanol and the two could not be more different,” said Cooper. “It has just been such a boon to these rural economies, these farming economies. It has helped to add value to commodities. It’s helped create jobs in these communities. It’s helped create new economic activity. in these communities across the country and farmers get that. They know that. They come up to our booth and tell us, thank you. Thank you guys for doing what you’re doing because ethanol has really saved the farm economy.”
To help the situation in farm country now, Cooper says we need the next new wave for ethanol. “And that next wave needs to be nationwide, year-round E15, continuing to grow our export demand, getting into new markets like maritime fuel and aviation, and just continuing to build and expand those markets,” he said. “Year-round E15 alone, if we were able to replace E10 nationwide, if every gallon of gasoline was E15, that’s another 6 billion gallons of ethanol demand…about 2.5 billion bushels of new corn demand.”
In this interview from Farm Progress Show, Cooper comments on EPA’s granting new small refinery waivers, California E15, record ethanol exports, and more.
FPS26 Geoff Cooper, RFA 13:17
Last Day of Farm Progress Show
Syngenta team at Farm Progress Show
NK Soybean Product Manager Jared Benson is excited to talk about Enlist E3® soybeans with Expance™ trait technology, due out in 2028-29 pending regulatory approval. “This platform we’re excited to bring forward (will have) the broadest active ingredients in HPP inhibitor control on the market,” said Benson. “So that’s going to have four modes of action, six different active ingredients, three different group 27 active ingredients on top of what we have today in the market.”
Benson explains that the name “Expance” is “alluding to the fact that we’re going to have more versatility, more flexibility for growers and how they want to tackle weeds on their farm.” The trait stack is intended to provide additional herbicide options for soybean weed-management programs, pending regulatory approvals and anticipated launch for the 2029 season.
Learn more in this interview and go by and see the team if you are at FPS today.
FPS26 Jared Benson, NK Soybean Product Manager 2:49
New Corn and Soybean Products at FPS
Farmers can learn more about the latest corn and soybean producers from Syngenta and Golden Harvest the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa this week.
Matt Dolch, Syngenta Corn Products Manager
“We look every year at advancing the very best products to bring into our Golden Harvest brand product portfolio,” said Dolch. “When we look at some of the needs that we’ve got across the industry, we certainly prioritize insect and pest pressure and then we also want to obviously increase yield potential in our corn hybrids and bring forward some of those agronomic solutions like enhanced root and stock strength, early seasons vigor and emergence, and then just broad adaptability so farmers can place those with ease out in their fields.”
Ryan Dunsbergen, Golden Harvest Soybean Product Manager
In addition, Dunsbergen says they are fighting soybean cyst nematodes with a Peking source of resistance. “So for 2027, we’re actually launching three brand new varieties that carry that Peking source of resistance for soybean cyst nematode,” he said, and two of those varieties are on display in the field at the show. “We’ve got GH2027E3S that carries that Peking source of resistance, as well as GH2777E3S. So I’ve started to lovingly refer to that as the 2777 soybean.”
Learn more in these interviews from FPS.
FPS26 Matt Dolch, Golden Harvest 2:18