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• 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...

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• 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...

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• 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...

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• Legion Bio Chem Updates Name to Nutra-Crop, Reflecting Focus on Crop Nutrition

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Companies

  Nutra-Crop

  Nutra-Crop, a brand evolution of Legion Bio Chem, recently announced its name change to customers and dealers. According to senior leadership, the team and prod...

• Scientists discover gene that could help us grow crops faster

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

  Plant scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Bordeaux have discovered a gene that they hope can be used to widen a nutrient trafficking bottleneck and ...

• President Trump signs disaster aid package, will benefit ag industry

  Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Markets

  With President Trump's signature last Thursday, a long-awaited $19 billion disaster aid package cleared its final hurdle. The more than 70-page bill includes $6...

• For the first time, Don Mario’s soybean varieties were planted in China

  Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Companies

  Last week, the team of Don Mario ended the planting of its soybean varieties in the North of China, the biodiversity origin region of this specie.

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• India third advance estimates of production of major crops for 2018-19 released

  Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Markets

  The 3rd Advance Estimates of production of major crops for 2018-19 have been released by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare on 03rdJ...

• Bayer takes shot at reversing $80m federal Roundup verdict

  Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Companies

  Lawyers for Monsanto Co.’s parent company, Bayer AG, have asked the federal judge overseeing a batch of lawsuits accusing the company’s blockbuster herbicide ...

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• USA - Stop invasive annual grasses from destroying Western ecosystems

  Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Products

  An invader has been moving across the Western United States, degrading wildlife habitat, putting protected and threatened species like the Sage Grouse and deser...

• Argentina SENASA: The contribution of bio-inputs in good agricultural practice

  Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Markets

  The Argentine National Service of Health and Food Quality (Senasa) was present at V National Day of Bio- inputs, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Agric...

• USDA-APHIS investigating detection of GE wheat in Washington State

  Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the discovery of genetically engineered (GE) wheat...

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• India to consider fixing nutrient-based subsidy rate for Urea

  Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Markets

  The Government is mulling over fixing a nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) rate for urea in order to promote balanced use of the fertiliser and bring in efficiency in...

• RiceTec receives Canadian approvals for FullPage

  Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Companies

  The FullPage Rice Cropping Solution released by RiceTec and ADAMA has officially received approval by the Canadian Health Agency’s Feed and Food Divisions for ...

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• Cornell improves global access to potato breeding material

  Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Cornell’s plant breeders and geneticists have played a significant role in the improvement of the potato, having released more than 50 varieties since 1908.

• USDA advancing biotech regulation changes

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Trump administration is trying to do what the George W. Bush and Obama administrations couldn't: Update and streamline USDA's 32-year-old process for geneti...

• CoBank: Adoption of blockchain for ag commodity trading brings challenges

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Markets

  Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which allows multiple computers to store identical transaction records, is s...

• Summit Agro receives California registration for TIMOREX GOLD fungicide

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Products

  Summit Agro USA LLC

  Summit Agro USA announces registration in California for TIMOREX GOLD, a natural botanical broad-spectrum fungicide. TIMOREX GOLD is the world's leading biofung...

• American Seed Trade Association statement on USDA’s new proposed rule on agriculture innovation

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Markets

  The following is a statement from American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) President & CEO Andy LaVigne in reference to USDA’s new proposed rule (SECURE) to upda...

• California bans chlorpyrifos after citing negative health effects

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Regulations

  California has moved to ban the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos, linking its use to the development of neurological problems in infants and children. Chlorpy...

• Syngenta Flowers to focus more on cyclamen

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Companies

  Syngenta announces recently, that it has successfully completed the acquisition of Varinova’s Cyclamen business. Varinova is a Dutch company that is fully dedi...

• ICAR sets up team to study unregulated agri-biostimulants

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Markets

  To protect farmers from unregulated biostimulants, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Director General Trilochan Mohapatra on Friday said a team has...

• Funk re-launches NC+ seed brand for corn, soybeans and grain sorghum

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Products

  When others are sizing down, cutting seed brands and tightening purse strings, Don Funk is balking at the trend. Founder of Channel Bio Corp, which later sold t...

• Corteva Agriscience, Accenture collaborate on Iowa rural technology skills program

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Companies

  Corteva Agriscience

  Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Corteva Agriscience (NYSE: CTVA) announced recently during a press conference with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, a collaboration bringin...

• COCOBOD introduces new anti-capsid insecticide

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Products

  The Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has introduced a new anti-capsid (Akate) insecticide to cocoa farmers across the ...

• Clemson University scientists designing robots to fill agricultural labor gap

  Date：Jun. 7, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  The agricultural workforce is shrinking and some Clemson University researchers believe robots may help provide a means to protect America’s food and fiber ind...