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• New research decodes plant defense system, with an eye on improving farming and medicine

  Date：Jun. 13, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)'s Hua Lu, professor of biological sciences, and colleagues have found new genetic links between a plant's circadi...

• Northeast China expands soybean cultivation, reduces reliance on US imports

  Date：Jun. 13, 2019 Category：Markets

  China has been expanding the amount of land used to grow soybeans and diversifying its source of imports to reduce reliance on imports from the US - its second...

  Tags:Soybean

• A model to guide seed choices according to climate

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  How do you know if a seed is well suited to a given environment? How can you predict its yield for a particular climate?

• Nufarm appoints process engineer for Greenville, Mississippi facility

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  Nufarm Americas Inc.

  Nufarm recently announced the hiring of Leonardo S. Buzzetto as process engineer for its Greenville, Mississippi manufacturing facility. Buzzetto will be focusi...

• Biopesticide developer Vestaron announces $40 million series B financing

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  Vestaron Corporation

  Vestaron, a company dedicated to improving the safety, efficacy and sustainability of crop protection through its development of peptide-based biopesticides, an...

• Argentina: Is there still a chance to pass a new a reformed Plant Breeders Act?

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Remaining only six months to conclude the Mauricio Macri’s presidency (until now is not clear if he will be re-elected) and a new Plant Breeders Act is still w...

• USDA/ARS researchers strive to develop stripe rust resistant wheat

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  As most farmers and many non-farmers know, stripe rust is nobody's friend. Seeing this dangerous disease on your crop can be devastating to a farmer's yield.

  Tags:wheat

• A combination of insecticides and mite weakens honeybees

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Today, scientists of the Institute of Bee Health of the University of Bern and the honeybee research association COLOSS have published an article in the peer-re...

• Crop scientists looking for ways to beat the heat

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Can a small circuit board, barely the size of a credit card, help the world’s wheat to beat the heat?

  Tags:wheat

• Defying law, Indian farm group says it planted unapproved GM cotton seeds

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  An Indian farm group said its members had planted a variety of genetically modified cotton seeds which have not been approved by the country’s government, an o...

  Tags:GM cropCotton

• Pilarquim conducting market research in Turkey, prior to expanding business in Middle East

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  Since its exploration of Middle East markets, Pilarquim has been closely watching the development of Turkey, where Pilarquim’s products were introduced more th...

• Syngenta to build first herbicide plant in Russia for $25 mn

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  Syngenta International AG

  Syngenta plans to build its first herbicide plant in Russia at a cost of 1.6 billion roubles ($25 million), it said on Tuesday.

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• Bayer's ranchland herbicide Esplanade receives emergency exemption in Montana, US

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Products

  Ranchland managers who have long worried about the quality of forage available for their livestock have a new tool to fight the invasive annual grasses medusahe...

  Tags:Bayer CropScienceHerbicidesIndaziflam

• More than 5 lakh chartered accountants needed in India agriculture sector

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Markets

  SAMARTHA, 16th Karnataka state-level conference of Chartered Accountants (CAs) was inaugurated by honourable Minister for Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, Sri Ve...

• Tunisia uses drone technology to secure agricultural lands

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Markets

  For the first time in Tunisia, drones will be used to secure the national grain harvest, Samir Taieb, Tunisian minister of agriculture, water resources and fish...

  Tags:Precision Farming

• Dow: High performance oil dispersion adjuvant development

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

  Oil dispersion (OD) formulation is an emerging formulation in Ag industry, which is claimed as environmental friendly, better pesticide efficacy than water-base...

• FMC Corporation Realigns Leadership Structure for North America and Latin America

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  FMC Corporation

  FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC) recently announced that it is realigning the leadership structure for its North America and Latin America regions. Ronaldo Pereira,...

• CABB presents complete package for the specialty chemicals industry

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  CABB

  The CABB Group aims to help specialty chemicals companies bring innovative molecules more quickly to market. ChemSpec Europe will see the launch of a service mo...

• TerrAvion announces data integration with Farmbox platform

  Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  TerrAvion

  TerrAvion is excited to be integrated with the Farmbox platform, the largest farm management platform in Brazil. This integration gives growers effortless acces...

• Nissan Chemical’s agricultural chemicals segment sales up 8% in FY 2018

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.

  Sales of Nissan Chemical’s agricultural chemicals segment increased by 7.9% compared with last year to 62,724 million yen in fiscal year 2018 which ended on Ma...

• USDA/APHIS proposes revised regulatory framework regarding the movement of certain genetically engineered organisms

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a proposed rule on June 6, 2019, on the movement of certa...

  Tags:GM crop

• New microneedle technique speeds plant disease detection

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers have developed a new technique that uses microneedle patches to collect DNA from plant tissues in one minute, rather than the hours needed for conve...

• List released！Which overseas companies will come to China to participate 2019 CPEW？

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Markets

  Lansheng · 2019 China Pesticide Exporting Workshop (CPEW) is scheduled to take place from 4th to 5th July in New Century Hangzhou Grand Hotel. The Workshop has...

• Prestigious World Food Prize awarded to East-West Seed founder Simon N. Groot

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Today, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President of the World Food Prize Foundation Kenneth M. Quinn announced Simon N. Groot as the 2019 World Food Pri...

• China: Trials underway for saltwater rice strains

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  China has planted about 300 new strains of saltwater-tolerant rice on 670 hectares of experimental alkali fields in search of resilient, high-yield varieties th...

  Tags:Rice

• Tradecorp launches new website in Russian

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Tradecorp Nutri-Performance

  Tradecorp has officially launched its new Russian website, bringing the ease of the corporate web page to the local market of all Russian-speaking countries.

• New Minnesota ag Co-ops now offer high-capacity fertilizer operation

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  AGCO

  Two new agricultural co-op facilities have begun operations in Minnesota, featuring high-capacity dry fertilizer systems with greater speed and efficiency in se...

• 96% of fungicides used on Brazilian soybeans is for rust control

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Markets

  Soybean rust was first discovered in Brazil during the 2000/01 growing season and since then, the disease has cost Brazilian producers billions of dollars in co...

  Tags:AgriData

• Biopesticide spinosad, popular in organic farming, may harm honeybees

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  The research is to determine potential adverse outcome pathways of spinosad and to identify molecular effects by investigating transcriptional alterations in th...

• Sumitomo Chemical's Health and Crop Sciences segment sales down in FY 2018

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

  Sales revenue of Sumitomo Chemical's Health and Crop Sciences segment for fiscal year 2018, ended March 31, 2019, fell by ¥1.6 billion (0.5%) compared with the...

  Tags:Sumitomo Chemical