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Data becomes cash crop for big agriculture

Date：Mar. 14, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

For six generations, Ben Riensche’s family has tended corn and soybeans outside Jesup, a town of 2,500 on the windswept plains of eastern Iowa.

Scientists breed salt-loving crops, but world is slow to bite

Date：Mar. 5, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Scientists in Dubai are developing crops like quinoa that can thrive in the salty soils intruding into the world’s croplands. Winning over enough people to eat...

Tags:Seed breeding

USA: Farmers Business Network, the startup taking on Bayer with cheaper, non-GMO seeds

Date：Mar. 5, 2019 Category：Companies

Farmers Business Network, Inc.

Farmers don’t have a reputation for skewing to the political left, but just get them talking about seeds. At an expo center on the outskirts of Memphis one gra...

China commits to buy more US soybean in ‘Good News’ for trade talks

Date：Feb. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

China has committed to buying more U.S. soybeans, a good sign of progress on trade talks between the nations, according to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.

Rupee Volatility To Contract Profit Margin, Says Dhanuka Agritech

Date：Jan. 2, 2019 Category：Companies

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd. expects its operating margin to fall and profit level to remain “flattish” in the financial year 2019 due to a volatile rupee and higher...

Finally, a GMO to tempt the crowd at whole foods

Date：Dec. 28, 2018 Category：Science&Research

These days everything from cookies to orange juice carry labels boasting that they’re GMO free – a marketing ploy that assumes consumers still hate, fear or a...

Tags:GM crop

Researchers develop vaccine for honey bees

Date：Dec. 12, 2018 Category：Science&Research

A growing number of honey bees die each year due to pesticides, vanishing habitats, poor nutrition and climate change, with potentially disastrous consequences ...

China reported to be making plans to start purchasing US soybeans

Date：Dec. 7, 2018 Category：Markets

Chinese officials have begun preparing to restart imports of U.S. soybeans and liquefied natural gas, the first sign confirming the claims of President Donald T...

Argentina replaces China as biggest U.S. soybean buyer

Date：Nov. 28, 2018 Category：Markets

The South American nation has risen to become the top buyer of U.S. beans in the last three months as China looks elsewhere in an escalating trade war with the ...

Bayer loses bid to wipe out first Roundup cancer verdict

Date：Oct. 23, 2018 Category：Companies

Bayer AG failed to persuade a California state judge to set aside a jury’s verdict in the first trial over allegations that its Roundup weed killer causes canc...

Brazil's supply of soybeans is running low

Date：Oct. 15, 2018 Category：Companies

Crushers in Brazil are running out of soybeans amid tougher competition from Chinese buyers for the remaining 2017-18 season supplies. Brazilian crushers have b...

Bayer considering sale of its animal health business

Date：Oct. 12, 2018 Category：Companies

Bayer AG is considering a sale of its animal-health business as it scrutinizes its portfolio in the aftermath of the $63 billion Monsanto Co. acquisition, peopl...

ChemChina is said to mull asset sales as megamerger moves ahead

Date：Sep. 6, 2018 Category：Companies

ChemChina’s chairman is studying potential asset sales as the state-owned company moves ahead with preparations for a long-mooted megamergerwith Sinochem Group...

Bayer's CEO comments on the glyphosate lawsuit

Date：Aug. 27, 2018 Category：Companies

Bayer AG Chief Executive Officer Werner Baumann sought to soothe investors' worries after a $289 million jury award over the controversial weed-killer Roundup, ...

A consortium including Indian agchem producer UPL in exclusive talks with Platform Specialty for Arysta: Bloomberg

Date：Jun. 22, 2018 Category：Companies

A consortium including Indian chemical producer UPL Ltd. is in exclusive talks to buy Platform Specialty Products' agricultural pesticides business, which could...

New BASF CEO takes over, investors want more acquisitions, especially in seed

Date：May. 8, 2018 Category：Companies

BASF Crop Protection

Martin Brudermueller, ushered in today as BASF SE's 13th chief executive in its 153-year history, needs to pick up the pace of innovation and deal-making to sha...

Update on DowDuPont spin-off plans, Corteva Agriscience to sell some assets

Date：May. 7, 2018 Category：Companies

DowDuPont

DowDuPont Inc. is working on a series of deals to tighten the focus at two of the three spinoffs it plans for next year.

Syngenta CEO: Focus On Digital Farming, Sees More Acquisitions

Date：Apr. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Syngenta Crop Protection AG

Bloomberg Markets AM with Pimm Fox and Lisa Abramowicz. GUEST: Erik Fyrwald, CEO of Syngenta, on developing technologies including a malaria insecticide, their ...

Tags:Acquisition

Bayer faces U.S. antitrust hurdles for Monsanto merger

Date：Mar. 16, 2018 Category：Companies

Bayer CropScience AG

Bayer faces continued U.S. antitrust objections over its planned takeover of Monsanto (MON), as officials fears the merger would hurt competition, according to ...

Norway to spend $13 Million to upgrade Doomsday Seed Vault

Date：Feb. 26, 2018 Category：Companies

Norway is pushing 100 million kroner ($13 million) more to upgrade the Svalbard Global Seed Vault after 10 years of operations.

Tags:Investment & Expansion

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