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Syngenta: Digging into a gene-editing deal

Date：Nov. 27, 2017 Category：Companies

The tools of biotechnology have been used in crop development for more than three decades. And while transgenic crops may have gotten the public's attention in ...

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Rice researchers discover herbicide resistance in popular variety

Date：Sep. 28, 2017 Category：Science&Research

A discovery by researchers at the Rice Experiment Station in Biggs, California offers hope that a possible new rice variety may someday give growers better cont...

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Alforex Seeds’ low lignin alfalfa varieties available to growers

Date：Jun. 27, 2017 Category：Products

Dow AgroSciences LLC

Alforex Seeds, the forage seed company of Dow AgroSciences, held an alfalfa field day early this summer in Yuma, Ariz., hosted by John Daily Farms, to explain a...

Pesticide use falls 3% in US California

Date：Mar. 16, 2016 Category：Markets

The amount of pesticides used statewide declined 3 percent in 2014 according to data from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. For a second year i...

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Dow’s Kerb SC herbicide gained US EPA and California approvals

Date：Feb. 16, 2016 Category：Products

Dow AgroSciences LLC

Dow AgroSciences has received U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Department of Pesticide Regulation approval for Kerb SC (propyzamide) he...

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Dow’s Dithane F-45 Rainshield fungicide registered for walnuts

Date：Jan. 22, 2015 Category：Products

Dow AgroSciences has received U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and California Department of Pesticide Regulation approvals for Dithane F-45 Rainshield fungi...

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US EPA and California approved Dow’s Simplicity CA herbicide

Date：Oct. 29, 2014 Category：Products

Dow AgroSciences has received U.S. EPA and California Department of Pesticide Regulation approval for Simplicity CA herbicide use in wheat and triticale.

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Bayer introduces flupyradifurone as alternative to imidacloprid

Date：Dec. 18, 2013 Category：Products

Bayer CropScience will introduce soon a new class of chemistry that will be an alternative to imidacloprid, the company’s embattled systemic insecticide that h...

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ESA consultation lawsuit dismissed

Date：May. 8, 2013 Category：Regulations

The Northern California District Court dismissed the most recent and far reaching lawsuit on Endangered Species Act (ESA) consultation. Under the ESA, US EPA is...

Fertilizers boost crops and human health

Date：Nov. 21, 2012 Category：Science&Research

The International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) and the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) have collaborated to produce a new publication ti...

California pesticide levels show low health risks

Date：Jul. 25, 2012 Category：Markets

Department of Pesticide Regulation Director Brian R. Leahy announced that air monitoring of nearly three dozen pesticides in California for the past year shows ...

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Syngenta updating chlorothalonil label to meet new NSRL

Date：Jun. 21, 2012 Category：Products

Syngenta is updating its chlorothalonil-containing product labels to meet the new No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) of 41 µg/day set by the California Office of...

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California farmers spending $900 million annually fighting weeds

Date：Feb. 13, 2012 Category：Products

Western agricultural concerns about weed cost increases center on the growing problem of herbicide resistance.

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Confusion reigns as EPA’s pesticide deadline approaches

Date：Nov. 1, 2011 Category：Regulations

New pesticide permitting requirements has went into effect on October 31, 2011 despite a lack of clarity around who really needs to obtain the permits – or if ...

Growing adoption of GM crops drives glyphosate market

Date：Oct. 12, 2011 Category：Markets

The global market for glyphosate is forecast to reach 1.35 million metric tons by the year 2017. Major factors driving growth in the global glyphosate market in...

Supreme Court poised to consider EPA pesticide case

Date：May. 17, 2011 Category：Regulations

The Supreme Court will decide later this month whether to hear a precedent-setting case about whether EPA has the discretion to reject requests from pesticide r...

Biotech seeds may make pest monitoring more difficult

Date：May. 6, 2011 Category：Markets

As the use of biotechnology increases and more companies move forward with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval to begin full-scale commercializ...

Japan approves MRLs for Radiant SC and Delegate WG insecticides

Date：Apr. 12, 2011 Category：Regulations

Dow AgroSciences announced that Japan has established maximum residue levels (MRLs) for spinetoram, the active ingredient in Delegate WG and Radiant SC insectic...

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Global 2010-2011 cotton production to rebound on strong market prices

Date：Apr. 7, 2011 Category：Markets

World cotton production in 2010/11 is forecast at 115.5 million bales, up 14 percent from a year earlier, as producers respond to strong market prices for the f...

New herbicide resistant traits coming to cotton fields

Date：Jan. 27, 2011 Category：Products

There is no pipeline full of new herbicides headed your way to stem the growing problem of weeds resistant to glyphosate or any other herbicide for that matter.