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Monsanto launches website with details on mandatory dicamba training sessions

Date：Feb. 8, 2018 Category：Companies

Ahead of the 2018 growing season, Monsanto is providing hundreds of free, in-person training sessions to help reinforce proper use of low-volatility dicamba for...

Monsanto earns spot on Fortune Magazine’s 2018 World’s Most Admired Companies List

Date：Jan. 25, 2018 Category：Companies

Fortune Magazine has named Monsanto Company to its 2018 World’s Most Admired Companies List for the fifth consecutive year. Monsanto is ranked No. 2 within the...

New mating disruption technique offers hope for Tuta absoluta control

Date：Aug. 16, 2017 Category：Science&Research

Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB)

A synthetic sex pheromone that confuses male Tuta absoluta moths so they can’t find females to mate with, Isonet-T, is offering new hope to commercial tomato g...

UC Davis launches cross-campus microbiome Special Research Program

Date：Jul. 17, 2017 Category：Companies

The UC Davis Office of Research recently announced the launch of the Microbiome Special Research Program (SRP), designed to leverage and build upon the broad an...

COMESA develops seed labels and certificates for intra-regional seed trade

Date：Jun. 15, 2017 Category：Markets

Intraregional seed trade is set for a boost following the introduction of seed labels and certificates to be utilized by seed companies for large consignment cr...

Dow AgroSciences welcome US EPA's decision on chlorpyrifos

Date：Apr. 3, 2017 Category：Products

Dow AgroSciences LLC

Dow AgroSciences supports U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to deny the petition to revoke U.S. food tolerances and cancel the registration...

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HM.Clause presents a new tomato concept at Fruit Logistica

Date：Feb. 21, 2017 Category：Companies

HM.CLAUSE SA

The seed company HM.CLAUSE, creator of the popular Raf tomato, presented a new variety of tomato with unique characteristics in terms of taste, shape and textur...

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Bacteria beneficial to plants have spread across California

Date：Apr. 28, 2016 Category：Science&Research

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have discovered that a strain of beneficial nitrogen-fixing bacteria has spread across California, demonst...

Syngenta Gets Ready for US Review of ChemChina Deal

Date：Feb. 12, 2016 Category：Companies

Syngenta Crop Protection AG

Syngenta is taking an activist role in dealing with the US government panel that reviews whether foreign acquisitions of US businesses will harm national securi...

Bayer CropScience Vegetable Seeds changes management team

Date：Sep. 11, 2015 Category：Companies

Bayer CropScience AG

Bayer CropScience Vegetable Seeds recently announced changes to its management team. On July 31, 2015 Ko Remijnse, Managing Director Marketing & Sales, retired ...

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Beck’s announced collaboration with John Deere for seamless data transfer

Date：Aug. 25, 2015 Category：Companies

John Deere

Beck’s announced a collaboration between its secure, web-based precision ag tool, FARMserver, and John Deere’s Operations Center in MyJohnDeere.com to improve...

Tags:Collaboration North America Beck's Hybrids John Deere

Australia：Resistance Finding Puts Spotlight on Barley Fungicide Tactics for 2015

Date：Feb. 24, 2015 Category：Science&Research

Curtin University researchers are recommending growers and advisers carefully plan fungicide management strategies for net blotch in this season’s barley crops...

European Commission withdraws proposal for new EU seed law

Date：Dec. 23, 2014 Category：Regulations

Presenting its much awaited policy priorities for 2015, the European Commission also announced that it withdraws its proposal for a new EU seed law.

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East-West Seed announces marketing collaboration with Monsanto

Date：Sep. 19, 2014 Category：Companies

East-West Seed Group

East-West Seed is now the exclusive distributor of vegetable seed products from Monsanto’s Seminis and De Ruiter in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. Ea...

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Mozambique is closer to first GE field trails

Date：Sep. 1, 2014 Category：Regulations

Mozambique is one step closer to planting its first genetically engineered (GE) field trails, after the Minister of Science and Technology approved revised regu...

Tags:Africa Biotech

Nexgen Plants and Syngenta enter research and development collaboration

Date：Aug. 6, 2014 Category：Companies

Syngenta and Nexgen Plants Pty Ltd have entered into a collaboration to develop resistance in leading crops for three key viruses.Nexgen Plants is commercialisi...

Tags:Collaboration Syngenta

EU Council adopts position on the cultivation of GMOs

Date：Jul. 25, 2014 Category：Regulations

The EU Council has adopted its first-reading position on a draft directive granting to member states more flexibility to decide whether or not they wish to cult...

PBL awarded two U.S. patents on short RNAi molecules

Date：Jul. 18, 2014 Category：Science&Research

Plant Bioscience Limited (PBL) recently announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued two US Patents with fundamental claims d...

Bee foraging chronically impaired by neonicotinoid exposure

Date：Jul. 10, 2014 Category：Science&Research

A study co-authored by a University of Guelph scientist that involved fitting bumblebees with tiny radio frequency tags shows long-term exposure to a neonicotin...

SeedWay and Howard Fertilizer enter distribution partnership

Date：Jul. 10, 2014 Category：Companies

SeedWay has entered into a vegetable seed sales and distribution agreement with Howard Fertilizer. The new arrangement will provide seed and service to growers ...

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