Ag Media
CropLife is intended for what audience?
Ag retailers
Ag retailers have three main crop inputs they support: seed, chemistry, and _______.
Fertilizer - This makes up a large part of the ag retail business, 41% of sales in the case of some major retail outfits.
This piece of ag equipment leads the charge at harvest — helping to combine reaping, threshing and winnowing all in one machine.
Combine
This pop singer-songwriter, known for hits like “Espresso” and “Feather,” co-wrote her song “Manchild.”
Sabrina Carpenter
This CP manufacturer, based in Basel, Switzerland, is well known for their corn herbicide portfolio with products like Acuron, Dual, Atrazine, Halex GT, and Callisto
Syngenta
This media partner owns many publications, including AgWeb, AgDay, AgriTalk, Drovers, the Packer and Machinery Pete
Farm Journal
Of all plant nutrients, there are three that are most important. What three nutrients do ag retailers focus on?
N-P-K
Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium
Example: DAP (diammonium phosphate):18 - 46 - 0
This piece of equipment rides alongside the combine, collecting excess grain to keep the combine rolling
Grain cart
This song, from Taylor Swift's 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl, uses a classic Hollywood icon as a metaphor.
Elizabeth Taylor
This Germany-based CP manufacturer purchased Monsanto in 2018.
Bayer
This media partner is owned by People Inc. (formerly dotdash Meredith)
Hint: It shares the same initials as San Francisco
Successful Farming
Who is the largest retailer in the US? Hint - their US headquarters is in Loveland, Colorado.
Nutrien Ag Solutions
What is the unit of measure for most agricultural crops? Said another way, yield is measured in _______?
Bushels
Originally a measure of volume, bushels now have standard USDA definitions by weight by crop (e.g. 56 lbs for corn, 60 lbs for soybeans, etc.)
This beer-related baseball team had their winningest season in program history this year, only to be swept in the division championship by the Los Angeles Dodgers
Milwaukee Brewers
Based in Indianapolis, this manufacturer recently announced a split of the corporation into two entities: one for seed and one for crop protection
Corteva
Bonus Points: What are the two new companies named?
Deep in the heart of sugarbeet country in Northern Minnesota and North Dakota, this ag network is colorfully named after the region in which it operates
Red River Farm Network
The term "co-op" is an abbreviation for what term describing the business model?
Cooperative
What physiological measure in a crop is key for farmers to know when the ideal time is to harvest? This is crop agnostic.
HINT: it affects the price a farmer would receive for their crop
Moisture
Corn - in field 20-25%, storage 15%
Soyeabs - 13 - 15%
Actor Dax Shepard hosts this popular podcast where he interviews celebrities, experts, and friends about “the messiness of being human.”
Armchair Expert
This mid-sized manufacturer, starting with the letter V, is not one of the "big 4" but is still a major player in the ag industry
Valent
Sounding like a superhero, this publication speaks specifically to potato producers
Spudman
This technological trend is changing how ag retailers serve farmers by using data analytics, digital scouting tools and variable-rate application.
Precision Ag
Where do corn and soybean farmers take their crops to sell them? Hint - it sounds like something that would take you floor to floor in a hotel.
Grain Elevator
Some are independent, some are attached to ag retailers
In the 2025 season of Only Murders in the Building, this legendary actress joined the cast as Charles-Haden Savage’s mother — her first television role in over a decade.
Meryl Streep
Based in Philadelphia, PA - this mid-sized crop protection manufacturer is a three letter acronym. Fun fact, they also used to manufacture recreational vehicles and military vehicles.
FMC