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Houston, TX (PRWEB) March 27, 2012

Over 400 Illinois Soybean growers gathered together at the IL Soybean Summit in Bloomington Illinois on March 9, 2012. The summit was the culmination of a Yield Challenge initiative sponsored by the Illinois Soybean Association. The initiative is designed to discover and break down yield barriers, explains Jim Nelson, Yield Challenge Coordinator of the association. With the increasing demand, Illinois farmers need to find ways to increase yields on the current acres already in production.

Stoller participated in the inaugural event by co-sponsoring two teams with retail partner Brimfield Agri-Service. The teams were comprised of 15 farmers in the district 4, central Illinois region. The idea to sponsor a Stoller team grew out of discussions at last years Illinois Farm Profitability Seminar. explained StollerUSA representative Don Stork . Based on our work with Kip Cullers helping him to break yield barriers in Missouriwe knew we had a product that could help the progressive farmers in Illinois too.

The teams utilized predetermined crop management strategies with an emphasis on managing the impact of crop stressors. Stoller products used included Bio-Forge? ST (seed treatment), Bio-Forge?, X-Tra Power, Harvest More Urea Mate, and Sugar Mover at various application rates and timing.

Overall the teams achieved a 5.56 bu/acre increase just by incorporating Stollers program into their management regimen. Even using conservative market price estimates the return calculated to well over $ 70 per acre.

Weve seen increasing numbers of farmers incorporating Stoller products into their row crop management program, shared StollerUSA representative Rick Gaffney. Products like Stollers Bio-Forge help break the yield barrier everyone is talking about and Stollers Yield Challenge teams confirmed it with their results.

Team participants planted several varieties/brands of soybeans. However only the Stine soybeans were seed treated with Stollers Bio-Forge ST. Eight of the nine plots treated with Bio-Forge ST enjoyed a significant yield boost. In university and field studies, Bio-Forge ST seed treatment is proven to improve seed germination, emergence, early seedling vigor and early nodulation. Overall team members felt it was one of the simplest and most cost-efficient ways to increase yield.

Reflecting on the success of the first summit, Yield Challenge Coordinator Nelson shared, The enthusiasm to set up teams and develop new crop strategies for 2012 is extremely strong. Partnering with companies like Stoller gives Illinois farmers some new tools to take yields to the next level.

Maximizing the genetic expression of plants, Stollers proprietary formulations are designed to promote plant vigor while managing excess ethylene and the stress of extreme temperatures, drought conditions, high plant populations, excess moistureeven herbicide damage. They are designed to up-regulate key genes to offset stress, maintain optimal hormone balance, enhance pollination or sugar movement so plants can function to their maximum potential.

About StollerUSA

Headquartered in Houston, Texas and celebrating over 41 years in business, StollerUSA is dedicated to helping producers enhance yields by maximizing genetic expression. StollerUSA s R&D team is located in an independent research facility allowing them access to the most advanced plant research technology. In addition, close ties with universities throughout the nation offer Stollers R&D team crop perspective with a regional issues emphasis. Only Stoller products contain Stollers proprietary technology that is proven to ensure optimum plant growth by maintaining appropriate hormone balance and activity. In combination with proper nutrition and good farming practices, the result is enhanced marketable yield, significant return-on-investment and improved stress tolerance. Validated by Universities nationwide, Stollers unique formulations outperform traditional products and result in healthier, more productive crops that are better able to achieve their full genetic potential.

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Portland, OR (PRWEB) November 01, 2011

Graphic Products, Inc., the worlds leading safety and industrial label printer manufacturer and supplier, has released the colorful, 20-page Best Practice Guide To OSHA Safety Signs to help facility safety managers understand the importance of safety signs in eliminating injuries and fatalities in the workplace.

Every day workers risk machines squeezing, pinching and crushing body parts; falls occurring from roofs and ladders at great heights; being hit by moving objects and excessive noise causing hearing loss. Motor vehicles are injuring and killing workers on the job. Even slips and trips on flat surfaces may be fatal to workers. The list of work-related injuries is long and frightening.

OSHA is tasked with doing everything in its power to prevent these incidents from occurring including specifying safety signs and labels.

The Guide is designed to help you evaluate your facility signage and assist in making your facility safe and OSHA compliant. In addition to OSHA requirements you’ll learn about ANSI Z535 Safety Alerting Standards, which govern the design of safety sign design.

The Guide covers the following topics:

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OSHA is not necessarily breathing down the neck of industry, as some fear. With only about 2,400 OSHA inspectors inspecting the more than 111 million US workplaces, that would be a monumental, if not impossible, task. Knowing OSHA inspections are rare for most companies should never diminish a facilitys responsibility to provide a safe workplace and that responsibility includes the use of OSHA compliant signs and labels throughout a facility.

OSHA tracks facilities and serious injuries from many trades. Based on this data, if a notable industry has high risk jobs that get cited every year, they will focus inspections on these injuries.

The Guide is available to those who fill out a form located at DuraLabel.com.

With more than 50 unique labeling supplies providing the right label material for nearly any type of environment, a full family of printers for every application, a five-year vinyl supply warranty, free technical support and satisfied customers throughout the world, DuraLabel and Graphic Products have solved unique problems in the industrial safety arena for more than 40 years.

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