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Bayer wins ruling blocking California’s Roundup warning

Date：Jun. 23, 2020 Category：Regulations

Bayer AG’s Roundup won’t require a label in California warning consumers that a chemical in the weed killer is known to cause cancer. A federal judge in Sacra...

India Fertilizer Maker Sees Virus Outbreak Delaying Expansion

Date：May. 29, 2020 Category：Markets

Coromandel International Ltd., an Indian maker of fertilizers and pesticides, will probably delay its planned investment as factories slowly reopen from a natio...

Government’s Proposal To Ban 27 Pesticides Will Hurt Agrochemical Firms And Farmers, Analysts Say

Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Markets

If the proposal gets implemented in the current form, it will have a significant negative impact on the agrochemical industry's sales and profits, K Ravichandra...

After three lost glyphosate-cancer trials, Bayer investors fear litigation ‘avalanche’ will further harm company’s reputation

Date：Apr. 16, 2020 Category：Companies

Bayer CropScience AG

Two influential shareholder advisory groups are split on whether investors should support Bayer AG’s management at its upcoming annual meeting, a year after a ...

Bayer pays $39.5 million to settle Roundup false-ad lawsuits

Date：Mar. 31, 2020 Category：Companies

Bayer CropScience U.S.

Bayer AG agreed to pay $39.5 million to settle allegations that its Monsanto unit ran misleading ads about the controversial Roundup weedkiller and its potentia...

Some Pesticide Makers See Profit in Chlorpyrifos Void

Date：Mar. 13, 2020 Category：Markets

“If Corteva isn’t able to meet the demands of the marketplace, we are well prepared to step in,” said Ram Seethapathi, president of Gharda Chemicals Internat...

Bayer investor sues top officials for ‘disastrous’ Monsanto deal

Date：Mar. 9, 2020 Category：Companies

Bayer CropScience AG

A Bayer AG investor sued the board and other top company officials, claiming the “disastrous” 2018 acquisition of Monsanto Co. eroded the company’s share val...

UPL Q3 Results: Profit Meets Estimates As Latin American Markets Shine

Date：Feb. 10, 2020 Category：Companies

UPL Limited

UPL Ltd.’s third-quarter profit met estimates on higher revenue growth in Latin American markets. The agro-chemical maker reported a net profit of Rs 701 c...

Global agriculture has a planting problem

Date：Jan. 31, 2020 Category：Products

Climate-friendly crops are getting more attention from farmers and food companies as pressure mounts to find sustainable forms of agriculture. Enter Kernza, a n...

Cargill’s CEO Is Concerned About U.S. Farmers as Tariffs Persist

Date：Jan. 24, 2020 Category：Companies

Cargill Inc. welcomes the first phase of a U.S.-China trade agreement but cautions that exports of some agricultural goods have yet to resume and tariffs are st...

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...

Tags:GM crop Maize

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.

Tags:Soybean

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.

Tags:Soybean

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