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Bayer shuts down several U.S. offices over coronavirus concerns

Date：Mar. 12, 2020 Category：Companies

Bayer recently announced it will close its Creve Coeur, St. Louis site after learning an employee is under investigation for coronavirus infection. While the em...

Sharing A GM Technology Testimony From India to Uganda

Date：Nov. 6, 2019 Category：Markets

As an Indian farmer, I’m pleased to accept invitations that allow me to share my experience and help raise awareness of the benefits of GM crops.

China raises tariff levels on US ag products

Date：Aug. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

China has announced it will raise tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. products. It's in retaliation for President Trump's planned Sept. 1st tariff increase on Chines...

10 Years of Seed Industry Mergers, Acquisitions and Retired Brands

Date：Jul. 12, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Since 2017, three mega-deals and related divestitures have uprooted the seed industry. Here's how new companies have sprouted and others have branched out or be...

USDA forecasts corn acres up 4%, soybeans down 5%

Date：Apr. 1, 2019 Category：Markets

Corn planted area for all purposes in 2019 is estimated at 92.8 million acres, up 4 percent or 3.66 million acres from last year. Compared with last year, plant...

New Leadership At The Fertilizer Institute

Date：Feb. 15, 2019 Category：Companies

The Fertilizer Institute (TFI)

The Fertilizer Institute Board of Directors elected new leadership earlier this month. The board voted-in Tony Will, president and CEO of CF Industries, as boar...

$1.51 billion Syngenta settlement wins final approval

Date：Dec. 12, 2018 Category：Companies

U.S. District Court Judge John W. Lungstrum recently approved Syngenta’s $1.51 billion settlement regarding MIR162—Agrisure Viptera. This settlement ends year...

USDA lowers corn, soybean production forecasts

Date：Oct. 12, 2018 Category：Markets

Corn production is forecast at 14.8 billion bushels, down slightly from the September forecast but up 1 percent from last year. Based on conditions as of Octobe...

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Technology will change weed control from chemistry to application

Date：Oct. 1, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

A tightening labor pool, increasing regulations, calls for sustainability, demand for precision and (perhaps the biggest of them all) resistance, are all conver...

Bayer begins to absorb Monsanto

Date：Aug. 20, 2018 Category：Companies

After months of negotiating, divesting and waiting, Bayer and Monsanto will fully merge. The German-based company says the integration of Monsanto into the Baye...

Glyphosate will not be listed as a carcinogen in California

Date：Jun. 14, 2018 Category：Products

Earlier this week a California judge ruled glyphosate does not need a label warning stating it causes cancer. U.S. District Court Judge William Shuff denied an ...

What farmers need to know about Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto

Date：Jun. 6, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

In a historic moment, Bayer will likely complete its acquisition of Monsanto this Thursday. The $66 billion deal has been in the works for nearly two years, lea...

US ag retailers launch e-commerce platform

Date：Jan. 5, 2018 Category：Companies

CommoditAg LLC

To serve farmers through local ag retail but with an online ecommerce platform, CommoditAg was started in 2017. This year, in addition to Illinois-based The Equ...

Stine Seed enters Chinese seed market

Date：Jan. 3, 2018 Category：Companies

Chinese farmers will have access to more corn genetic technology starting next year. Stine Seed Company has long kept relations with China, and recently sealed ...

Monsanto moves to stop Arkansas from banning dicamba

Date：Dec. 8, 2017 Category：Companies

Monsanto Company

Monsanto asked a judge Tuesday to prevent Arkansas lawmakers from banning the use of a weed killer that farmers in several states have said drifts onto their cr...

USA: Seed company shifts underway

Date：Nov. 30, 2017 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Multinational company mergers might dominate the headlines, but smaller-scale regional mergers and startups have been on the increase in the seed industry. The ...

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Update on US EPA's dicamba use rules: Monsanto, DuPont, BASF in agreement

Date：Nov. 2, 2017 Category：Markets

After more than 3 million soybean acres were damaged in 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reached an agreement with dicamba manufacturers and lice...

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What to do When Identical Genetics Cross Brands

Date：Oct. 18, 2017 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

It’s no secret farmers have long wanted to know just how often the same seed reappears in more than one bag. One California-based data company says they’ve cr...

USDA raises its corn, soybean yield estimates, prices fall

Date：Sep. 13, 2017 Category：Markets

The U.S. Department of Agriculture surprising the trade with another increase in corn and soybean production and yield.

Class action suit filed against Monsanto for dicamba drift damage

Date：Feb. 20, 2017 Category：Regulations