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• Bayer looking at Dicamba complaints

  Date：Oct. 7, 2019 Category：Companies

  Bayer CropScience AG

  Bayer says Dicamba complaints are down in 2019 overall but Illinois has a record number of cases. Bayer says it may take legal action if the European Union bans...

• Explained: What is PGS, the heart of the organic food production industry?

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

  The head of India’s food safety regulator has said that she expects the Union Agriculture Ministry’s Participatory Guarantee Scheme (PGS) to incentivise more ...

• OCI N.V. and ADNOC close strategic partnership agreement, establishing Fertiglobe, a new global nitrogen fertilizer leader

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Companies

  OCI N.V.

  OCI N.V.and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company recently announced the completion of their transaction to combine ADNOC’s fertilizer business into OCI’s Middle Eas...

• DEMETER will digitally transform Europe’s agri-food sector

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

  The DEMETER project will monitor plant and animal products from farm to fork and increase on-farm profitability.

• We want up to 10% of Syngenta revenue to come from India: CEO J Erik Fyrwald

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Syngenta Crop Protection AG

  Fyrwald, who was at Eluru to inaugurate a facility for product testing and development, said India is a critical market for Syngenta.

• Indian Farmers to Get New Protein-rich Wheat Variety HD-3226

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

  New Wheat Variety HD 3226 has been released for commercial cultivation in North Western Plain Zone constituting of Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan (Except Kot...

• Kemin Crop Technologies' TetraCURB™ Concentrate and TetraCURB™ Organic miticides expand to insecticides

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Products

  Kemin Industries, Inc.

  Kemin Crop Technologies has announced that its FIFRA 25(b)-exempt botanical-oil-based contact miticides, TetraCURB™ Concentrate and TetraCURB™ Organic, are no...

• Micropep Technologies strengthens its management team by appointing Dr. Mikael Courbot as Chief Technical Officer

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Companies

  Micropep Technologies

  Micropep Technologies, an AgTech startup addressing future agriculture needs by discovering novel natural molecules helping plants to unleash their full potenti...

• Indian government should address industry’s concerns in the Pesticides Management Bill

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Regulations

  On the Occasion of the 39th AGM, the CropLife India Chairman Rajendra Velagala said that the Government must address the industry’s concerns in the Pesticides ...

• USDA reports share of soybean acres planted to dicamba-tolerant seed

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

  The US States with the most dicamba-tolerant seed use were Mississippi (79 percent of soybean acreage), Tennessee (71 percent), and Kansas (69 percent). Notably...

• National Seed Association of India elects new Governing Council

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Regulations

  National Seed Association of India

  On September 27th 2019, the National Seed Association of India (NSAI) held its 13th Annual General Meeting at National Academy of Agricultural Science in New De...

• John Deere debuts next-gen self-propelled sprayers

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Products

  John Deere

  A new series of self-propelled sprayers from John Deere has been launched into the marketplace. Manufactured at the company’s Horst factory in The Netherlands ...

• Dangerous pesticides ban ‘in progress’ in Thailand: Agriculture Minister

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Uncertainty remains in Thailand whether or not to ban Paraquat, Glyphosate, and Chlorpyrifos which are used as pesticides, leading an ad-hoc committee on the re...

• USDA invests $11M in research that will support specialty crop farmers

  Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

  U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary Scott Hutchins announced on Oct. 3 that the National Institute of Food and Agriculture has invested $11 mi...

• Deere announce production worker layoffs

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Companies

  John Deere

  Deere & Co. has announced layoffs for more than 160 production employees in the Quad-Cities. Ken Golden, director, global public relations at Deere, said Tu...

• Two new winter wheat varieties to be released from Montana State University's Foundation Seed Program

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Products

  A pair of new winter wheat varieties soon to be released by Montana State University breeders are designed to help address two issues that plague wheat farmers ...

• Ginkgo Bioworks and Berkeley Lights bring unprecedented speed and scale to synthetic biology with $150MM collaboration

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Companies

  Ginkgo Bioworks

  Ginkgo Bioworks, the organism company and Berkeley Lights, Inc., a company dedicated to finding the best cells, recently announced a $150MM collaboration. Throu...

• Bayer Looks Forward

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Companies

  On the upside, Condon, president of the Crop Science Division of Bayer, presented a company better positioned to launch new products and collaborations in the y...

• Valagro commences construction of U.S. plant in South Carolina

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Companies

  Valagro S.p.A.

  Valagro, a leader in the development, production and marketing of biostimulant and advanced nutrient solutions for cash and row crops, is commencing the constru...

• Mustang Seeds adds full line of Enlist E3 soybeans

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Products

  Mustang Seeds has a full line of new Enlist E3 soybeans for 2020. Enlist E3 soybeans can be sprayed with glyphosate, glufosinate and 2-4,D.

• Corteva Agriscience commits $600,000 to support South Dakota State University's Raven Precision Agriculture Center

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Companies

  Corteva Agriscience

  Corteva Agriscience recently announced a $600,000 gift to support the South Dakota State University precision agriculture program and construction of the new Ra...

• Nufarm sales up 14% in FY 2019

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Companies

  Nufarm Group revenues increased by 13.6% to $3,758 million with growth in all regions except Australia/New Zealand for the 2019 financial year ended 31 July, 20...

• Nufarm showcasing products, rewards program at GIE+EXPO

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Companies

  Several products will be on display as wlell as an early look at the 2020 Nufarm Edge Rewards early order program.

• Agriculture: Ploughing Ahead

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Markets

  India has billions of people to feed and fortunately, an agrarian economy that is capable of sustaining that need. In the years ahead India could also be the fo...

• Bayer launches Flex Solutions, reinvents how customers purchase solutions

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Products

  Bayer CropScience AG

  The turf and ornamental business of Bayer, within the company’s crop science division, announced the launch of Flex Solutions – a new online ordering platform...

• EFSA consults on review of guidance on pesticides and beesv

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Regulations

  EFSA is carrying out a second stakeholder consultation in support of the review of its guidance on pesticides and bees.

• The New Government's Vision for Agriculture Transformation in India

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Markets

  To meet the challenge of sustainably feeding 9 billion people by 2050, the agricultural sector will need to undergo major transformation. More nutritious food w...

• Pivot Bio joins the International Phytobiomes Alliance

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Companies

  Pivot Bio

  The International Alliance for Phytobiomes Research announces that Pivot Bio has joined the organization as a sponsoring partner.

• BioWorks' SuffOil-X horticultural spray now available in Canada

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Products

  BioWorks, Inc.

  BioWorks announces the addition of SuffOil-X® Spray Oil Emulsion to their Canadian product line. SuffOil-X controls insects, mites and fungi - including powder...

• Australia - World's first release of oat tolerant to imiadzolinone headlines new variety releases

  Date：Oct. 3, 2019 Category：Products

  AUSTRALIA'S grain producers will have a range of new varietal choices following releases over recent weeks.