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U.S. corn crop Is now 92% genetically modified

Date：Jan. 20, 2020 Category：Markets

How much does crazy weather matter anymore to crop production? That’s the question grain traders are scratching their heads over after fresh data showed U.S. f...

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Swarms of Locusts Are Wreaking Havoc on Key Indian Crops

Date：Jan. 9, 2020 Category：Markets

The biggest locust swarm to hit India’s Gujarat in more than a quarter of a century has resulted in mass damage to key crops in the western state.

Dhanuka Agritech Says Third Quarter One Of The Best In Five Years

Date：Jan. 7, 2020 Category：Companies

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd. expects its overall sales to grow at the fastest pace in five years in the quarter ended December, led by a rise in herbicide sales and ne...

US: Soybean prices on pace for best monthly performance since 2016

Date：Dec. 31, 2019 Category：Markets

The year is ending on a high note for American soybean farmers, with prices on pace for their best monthly performance since 2016.

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Making seeds to withstand climate change is getting harder

Date：Dec. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Global hunger and malnutrition are on the rise, as are temperatures and water shortages. Humanity must adapt crops to the changing climate by breeding hardier p...

Soybeans bounce back as China trade talks move forward

Date：Dec. 10, 2019 Category：Markets

Soybeans are snapping out of a slump as officials signal optimism that the U.S. and China will reach a trade deal.

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Bayer criticizes Mexico for blocking imports of herbicide

Date：Dec. 2, 2019 Category：Companies

Bayer AG criticized Mexico for stopping imports of the key ingredient in its Roundup herbicide, warning that the country’s farmers will face a “major disrupti...

Thailand urged to delay pesticides ban over risks to agriculture

Date：Nov. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

A trade group representing pesticide firms urged Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha to delay a ban due Dec. 1 on three chemicals because of the potent...

Dhanuka Agritech Expects Margins To Recover In Second Half Of FY20 As Demand Rises

Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd. expects its margins to recover in the second half of the ongoing financial year after an erratic monsoon affected the pesticide maker’s p...

Trade war’s forgotten farmers get crushed in U.S. cotton country

Date：Nov. 12, 2019 Category：Markets

American cotton farmers are having such a difficult year that even a potential trade deal between the U.S. and China is likely to offer them little comfort.

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Q2 Results: UPL’s Profit Misses Estimates On One-Time Expense

Date：Nov. 8, 2019 Category：Companies

UPL Limited

UPL Ltd.’s quarterly profit missed estimates because of a one-time expense. Net profit was Rs 89 crore in the quarter ended September, the agro-chemical ma...

US farm bankruptcies spike up 24% in September

Date：Nov. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

U.S. farm bankruptcies in September surged 24% to the highest since 2011 amid strains from President Donald Trump's trade war with China and a year of wild weat...

Syngenta plans to IPO next 2.5 years, CEO Erik Fyrwald says

Date：Oct. 25, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Syngenta Crop Protection AG

Erik Fyrwald, Syngenta chief executive officer, was interviewed by Bloomberg, discussing the company's initiative to tackle climate change and the future of the...

Russia, US, Trinidad face five-year EU tariffs on fertilizer

Date：Oct. 10, 2019 Category：Regulations

The European Union imposed five-year tariffs on a liquid nitrogen fertilizer from Russia, the U.S. and Trinidad and Tobago to curb competition for producers in ...

India Govt Estimates Kharif Crop Output Slightly Lower At 140.57 Million Tonne In FY20

Date：Sep. 24, 2019 Category：Markets

India’s foodgrains production is estimated slightly lower at 140.57 million tonne in the kharif season of 2019-20 crop year on likely fall in rice and pulses o...

Russia faces threat of longer European tariffs on fertilizer

Date：Sep. 24, 2019 Category：Regulations

The European Union may renew quarter-century-old trade protection on Russian ammonium nitrate, risking a backlash from EU farmers opposed to the import curbs.

Kharif Crop Production This Year To Be Higher Than Last Year, Says India Agriculture Minister

Date：Sep. 23, 2019 Category：Markets

India's crop production in the Kharif season (summer-sown) will be higher than last year's 141.71 million tonne on better monsoon rains, Minister of State for A...

EuroChem CEO Ostbo sees growth from core market, not specialties

Date：Sep. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Eurochem

The new chief of EuroChem Group AG, the fertilizer producer owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, sees traditional nutrients rather than super specia...

India’s monsoon turnaround revives crop sowing

Date：Aug. 14, 2019 Category：Markets

A turnabout in India’s monsoon has helped offset the rain deficit, providing relief to farmers who have begun crop sowing. 21 out of the country’s 36 sub-divi...

Spurning US EPA objections, California keeps cancer Prop. 65 warning on herbicide

Date：Aug. 14, 2019 Category：Regulations

California has no plans to change its rule that certain products containing the herbicide glyphosate require warnings to consumers that it could cause cancer, d...

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