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• Bayer's Monsanto wins arbitration ruling over royalties from Indian seed company

  Date：Feb. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  Monsanto India

  German drugmaker Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit has won proceedings against Indian seed maker Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd (NSL) in a royalty dispute, lawyers familiar with t...

• Argentine soybean breeding company opens its South African branch

  Date：Feb. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  February 11th. One of the largest soybean breeding companies in Argentina, Santa Rosa Semillas, will launch its affiliate in South Africa, next March.

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• Concentric Appoints Jarrett Chambers as Evp and Chief Commercial Officer

  Date：Feb. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  Concentric Agriculture Inc. (formally called Inocucor)

  Concentric Ag Corporation, a developer of biological and plant nutrient inputs, has appointed Jarrett Chambers as executive vice president, marketing and sales ...

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• Jennifer Betka Joins Indigo Ag as Its First Chief Marketing Officer

  Date：Feb. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  Indigo AG

  Indigo Ag, Inc., a company dedicated to harnessing nature to help farmers sustainably feed the planet, announces the appointment of Jennifer Betka as Chief Mark...

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• AgriTec introduces RhiZoneV soybean inoculant seed lubricant

  Date：Feb. 12, 2019 Category：Products

  AgriTec Inc.

  RhiZoneV is a soybean inoculant with bradyrhizobium japonicumand trichoderma virens. RhiZoneV is also a planter box talc and graphite replacement. “This past y...

  Tags:SoybeanInoculant

• Herbicides prices rose 20% in Brazil, says Aprosoja-PR

  Date：Feb. 12, 2019 Category：Markets

  Aprosoja Brasil

  According to information from Márcio Luiz Bonesi, president of the Association of Soya and Maize Producers of Paraná (Aprosoja-PR), the cost of purchasing her...

• American Vanguard Corp celebrates 50 year milestone

  Date：Feb. 12, 2019 Category：Companies

  American Vanguard Corporation （AMVAC)

  American Vanguard Corporation (NYSE: AVD), parent company to AMVAC Chemical Corporation, is celebrating 50 years in business. The milestone is being honored wit...

• AgriMetis™ Announces Second International Patent Filing to Provide Farmers Safer, Improved Tool Against Weeds

  Date：Feb. 12, 2019 Category：Products

  AgriMetis LLC

  AgriMetis, LLC recently announced that a second international patent cooperation treaty (PCT) filing related to its L-glufosinate (Glu-L™) program has been pub...

• Chia Tai: Understanding the needs of customers along the value chain of Thailand agriculture

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

  Mickey Shan

  AGROPAGES recently interviewed Mr. Kornkanok Chantakitwattana, the Vice President of Plant Protection Business of CHIA TAI CO., LTD. in Thailand. He introduced ...

• Kline study: analysis of 2018 US crop protection programs available to distributors, retailers and growers

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

  Kline & Company, Inc.

  By program effectiveness, Corteva, Bayer, and BASF are the top three companies with the most distributors, according to Kline's recently published report, Effec...

• Ag science and engineering center opens in Australia

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Markets

  A new A$16 million Agricultural Science and Engineering Precinct opened Feb. 5 at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ). The precinct, which was co-funded...

• USDA: corn, soybeans stocks lower than last forecast

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Markets

  The USDA has tightened the domestic balance sheets for soybeans and corn in the first major set of numbers since the shutdown. Corn ending stocks were down slig...

• Uncertainties in US-China Trade War Cause Anxiety among Global Soybean Industry

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Christina Xie

  To have a relatively more comprehensive understanding of the impact of this white war on the global soybean industry from the perspective of the subjects involv...

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• This biotech uses genomics to breed super peas

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  As the world population increases, so does the demand for protein. Animal protein is a huge source of greenhouse gases. An alternative that is better for the en...

• French, German farmers destroy crops after GMOs found in Bayer seeds

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Bayer CropScience AG

  Bayer said on Wednesday that farmers in France and Germany were digging up thousands of hectares of rapeseed fields after traces of genetically modified organis...

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• Argentina approves a BASF GMO cotton

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  BASF Argentina

  February 6th. The secretary of Ag-Industry, Mr. Luis Miguel Etchevehere, announced the release of a new GMO cotton trait. It is that confers the crop tolerance ...

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• Rothamsted Research applies to run new GM field trials

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Rothamsted Research

  The plan is for a five-year project, ending in 2023, with plants being sown in April, and harvested in September.

• American Soybean Association urges congress to end tariffs

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Talks are good, purchases are good, but lifting the tariff that China imposed last July on soybean imports from the United States is the only way for U.S. soybe...

  Tags:Soybean

• Stuart van der Veen Joins Aerobotics as Chief Platform Officer

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Aerobotics

  On 1 February, 2019, Aerobotics announced that renowned disruption and innovation expert Stuart van der Veen has joined the company as Chief Platform Officer. S...

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• Oxfam research report on the patenting of plants and seeds in the global south

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

  Oxfam presents a new research paper that provides an overview of the current status of the patenting of plants in developing countries and emerging economies.

• Current crop protection transformation challenges in France

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

  A new paper now available online reveals the extraordinary policy efforts made in France in order to reduce the use of chemical plant protection products and tr...

• NACL to raise India Rupees 115 crore via equity issue, Krishi Rasayan Group to invest

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Nagarjuna Agrichem Limited

  NACL Industries Ltd (formerly known as Nagarjuna Agrichem Ltd.) will raise about ₹115 crore through issue of equity and equity warrants. The funds will be used...

  Tags:Investment & Expansion

• Taranis Named to the 2019 CB Insights AI 100 List of Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Taranis

  CB Insights named Taranis, a leading precision agriculture intelligence platform, to the third annual AI 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising private ...

• Arcadia Biosciences’ GoodWheat supply chain is progressing in two hemispheres

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Arcadia Biosciences, Inc.

  Demonstrating its commitment to advancing its GoodWheat™ portfolio of novel, non-GM wheat ingredients with unique health benefits to commercialization, Arcadia...

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• USA - Cotton farmers should beware of increased herbicide resistance

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Georgia cotton producers face two great weed control challenges this season — how to minimize the development of herbicide resistance and mitigating off-target...

  Tags:Dicamba2,4-D

• Rallis India appoints Sanjiv Lal as MD, CEO

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Rallis India Limited

  Rallis India on Saturday said it has appointed Sanjiv Lal as its Managing Director and CEO.

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• Researchers discover corn plants call in hungry nematodes when resistant rootworms attack

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

  Someday – in some scientifically savvy encyclopedia perhaps – the word “resilience” may include a photograph of the Western Corn Rootworm. This crafty, intr...

  Tags:Maize

• Why do we need to keep breeding new crop varieties?

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Global warming and changes in the amount – and location – of water, are key factors in the need to continue crop breeding programs.

• Biocide Regulations – Life Before the BPR

  Date：Feb. 11, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Eurofins Agroscience Services Ltd.

  If you’re new to the world of biocides and the Biocidal Products Regulation (EC) No 528/2012 (also known as the BPR) you might hear people refer to the BPD, 98...

• South African tomato moth not allowed in Saint Petersburg

  Date：Feb. 8, 2019 Category：Markets

  The inspectors of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance have banned 75 tons of Moroccan tomatoes from entering Saint Petersburg. The...