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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...

Tags:Glyphosate

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...

Bayer CEO's investor call, will settle Roundup lawsuit financial responsibly

Date：Aug. 1, 2019 Category：Companies

Bayer AG Chief Executive Officer Werner Baumann said he'd consider a "financially reasonable" settlement of litigation over the weedkiller Roundup as the caselo...

Tags:Glyphosate

Indonesia warns of damage to rice crop as drought parches fields

Date：Jul. 31, 2019 Category：Markets

Indonesia’s rice crop is at risk of damage from an unusually long dry weather spell that’s gripped several producing regions, raising prospects of elevated im...

Tags:Weather Rice

German Minister casts doubt on glyphosate's future use in Europe

Date：Jul. 15, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

German Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner said glyphosate herbicide probably won’t have enough support to gain re-authorization for use in the European Union...

Tags:Glyphosate

U.S. EPA Curbs Use of 12 Bee-Harming Pesticides

Date：May. 30, 2019 Category：Regulations

The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled registration of a dozen pesticides, from a class of chemicals known to harm bees.

Nigeria approves two GMO cotton varieties to increase output

Date：May. 10, 2019 Category：Regulations

Nigeria approved two genetically modified varieties of cotton for use by the nation’s farmers to help boost supply to its textile industry and cut lint imports...

Tags:GM crop Cotton

WTO finds fault with China's agricultural trade restrictions

Date：Apr. 23, 2019 Category：Markets

China didn’t follow proper procedures when it imposed trade restrictions on agricultural imports, the World Trade Organization said on Thursday in a ruling tha...

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. 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...

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

India’s monsoon turnaround revives crop sowing

Bayer CEO's investor call, will settle Roundup lawsuit financial responsibly

Indonesia warns of damage to rice crop as drought parches fields

German Minister casts doubt on glyphosate's future use in Europe

U.S. EPA Curbs Use of 12 Bee-Harming Pesticides

Nigeria approves two GMO cotton varieties to increase output

WTO finds fault with China's agricultural trade restrictions

Data becomes cash crop for big agriculture

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

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

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

Rupee Volatility To Contract Profit Margin, Says Dhanuka Agritech

Finally, a GMO to tempt the crowd at whole foods

Researchers develop vaccine for honey bees

China reported to be making plans to start purchasing US soybeans

Argentina replaces China as biggest U.S. soybean buyer

Bayer loses bid to wipe out first Roundup cancer verdict

Brazil's supply of soybeans is running low

Bayer considering sale of its animal health business

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