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Incotec celebrates 17 years of seed enhancement in India

Date：Oct. 21, 2020 Category：Markets

Incotec's business in India is celebrating an anniversary this week. On 20th October it is 17 years ago that Incotec India first opened its doors. From that da...

Containing COVID19 impacts on Indian agriculture

Date：Apr. 15, 2020 Category：Markets

The ongoing health crisis around COVID19 has affected all walks of life. Protecting lives of people suffering from the disease as well as frontline health respo...

Southern Australia: Government stands firm on GM crops freedom

Date：Mar. 5, 2020 Category：Regulations

The Marshall Liberal Government will stand firm in its support for South Australian grain growers’ campaign to enjoy the same freedom of choice available to th...

Heinrich Heine University and Indian Council of Agricultural Research join forces to fight rice diseases in India

Date：Feb. 28, 2020 Category：Markets

Each year, bacterial and fungal diseases in rice lead to devastating losses for Asia’s agricultural sector. Researchers working with Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer ...

French start-up Naïo Technologies specialized in agricultural robots announces the closing of a €14 million funding

Date：Jan. 14, 2020 Category：Companies

Naïo Technologies

After a first round of € 3 million in 2015, the French start-up Naïo Technologies specialized in agricultural robots, announces the closing of a €14 million ...

Tags:Precision Farming

AgLaunch Row Crop Challenge chooses six startups for investment and field trials

Date：Jan. 7, 2020 Category：Markets

After pitching in last month's AgLaunch Row Crop Challenge at the Farm Journal AgTech Expo, a panel of farmers and investors have chosen six startup companies t...

Stemphylium leaf blight affects New York State's onion crops

Date：Dec. 31, 2019 Category：Markets

New York is the fifth largest producer of onion bulbs in the United States, producing over 110,000 metric tons from over 2,800 hectares. Most of these onions ar...

Australia: Bayer Connect trial hub tests chemistry for the future

Date：Dec. 25, 2019 Category：Companies

Bayer Australia and New Zealand

Bayer runs close to two dozen trials at the Bayer Connect trial hub near Temora (NSW), where we evaluate chemistry in a range of conditions. Bayer Market Dev...

Tags:Trait Herbicides Fungicides Seed breeding

Herbicide resistant weed could cost the United Kingdom £1 billion a year - Economic model addresses the costs of resistance in blackgrass

Date：Dec. 24, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Rothamsted Research

Research by Rothamsted has helped put an economic figure on herbicide resistance in blackgrass, the farmland weed that is decimating winter-wheat yields across ...

Tags:Pests&Diseases Application & Technology wheat

Farmers unite to launch U.S. Hemp Growers Association

Date：Dec. 23, 2019 Category：Markets

The U.S. Hemp Growers Association (USHGA), the only national farmer-directed hemp trade association, was announced this week in Indianapolis. Founded by a diver...

Research validates new control tactic for resistant weeds in US soybean

Date：Dec. 20, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Australian growers have made significant inroads against herbicide-resistance weeds in recent years by focusing on harvest-time weed seed controls. One of the m...

Tags:Resistance Soybean

Millions of euros in subsidies for research into sustainable agricultural production

Date：Dec. 18, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Wageningen University (Netherlands)

Peter Groot Koerkamp, Professor of Agricultural and Bio resource Engineering at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), receives a Crossover grant of 7 million ...

Australia - Crown rot fight can now begin with Syngenta's Vibrance

Date：Dec. 16, 2019 Category：Markets

VIBRANCE® will continue to be the broadest spectrum seed treatment available to Australian cereal growers for controlling damaging seed and soilborne diseases...

Tags:Seed treatment Fungicides Difenoconazole Metalaxyl-M Sedaxane

Dümmen Orange appoints Noelia Mansilla as new President for EMEA region

Date：Dec. 16, 2019 Category：Companies

Dümmen Orange

Dümmen Orange recently announced that effective November 1, Noelia Mansilla has accepted the new position as President for EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) S...

Tags:People Seed breeding

"India needs a seed bill that serves the national interests," says the National Seed Association of India

Date：Dec. 9, 2019 Category：Markets

The National Seed Association of India (NSAI) on last Wednesday sent additional comments on the Seed Bill 2019 through three letters to the DG ICAR Dr Trilochan...

Live-in bacteria protect plants against infections

Date：Nov. 4, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Micro-organisms living inside plant roots team up to boost the plant’s growth and tolerance to stress. An international research team led by the Netherlands In...

BioWorks brings On-Gard Calcium biological plant nutrient to Canada

Date：Oct. 14, 2019 Category：Products

BioWorks, Inc.

BioWorks announces the addition of ON-Gard® CALCIUM, and organic biological plant nutrient, to their Canadian product line. The new product (1-0-0 + 5% Calcium...

Indian soil laboratory network in the making

Date：Oct. 10, 2019 Category：Markets

A soil laboratory network at the national level will be established in partnership with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research under the aegis of the Asian...

India - Bayer conducts anti-counterfeit awareness drive in Punjab

Date：Aug. 13, 2019 Category：Companies

Bayer CropScience India

> 15,000 farmers and 200 agri-retailers participate in anti-counterfeit awareness campaign held across Moga, Ludhiana and Barnala districts > Farmers educa...

Columbia University researcher studies how climate change affects crops in India

Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Markets

In a paper published in Environmental Research Letters, Kyle Davis from Data Science Institute of Columbia University found that in India, the yields from grain...

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