Alltech Buys Ranch-Way Feed; New Safflower Plants Has Global Food Market Smiling

Alltech through Hubbard Feeds, has acquired Ranch-Way Feeds a leading animal nutrition company that has done business in the Western United States for more than 60 years. The company markets its animal nutrition products and programs through an extensive dealer network in the Rocky Mountain region. The acquisition includes The Feed Bin, Ranch-Way Feeds’ retail store in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. and DuPont Pioneer have successfully grown safflower plants that offer high levels of arachidonic acid (ARA). This is good news for the global food market, since the specialty oil is both a high-value and a nutritional product.ARA is an omega-6 fatty acid that, along with certain omega-3 fatty acids, plays a critical role in neural and visual development of infants. It is one of the most abundant fatty acids in the brain, and neurological health is reliant upon sufficient levels of ARA.and the growing season for 2017 will bring about some promising new additions to John Deere‘s product line up. They will introduce the the new MaxEmerge 5e row units next Spring for a variety of Deere planters, including the mini-hopper and DB planters. The new MaxEmerge units will improve seeding population accuracy when it operating on a curve–, along with eliminating a potential yield loss due to inaccuracies.