Viewpoint & Interview

• GarrCo Products Inc: Spray Drift and the Role of Adjuvants and FormulationsJun. 25, 2018

  Spray drift is currently the big thing with adjuvants and formulations. Today, more people live in rural areas and often put pressure on government regulators to make sur...

• Monsanto CIO: How we got started with digital transformationJun. 22, 2018

  When I joined Monsanto four years ago, we embarked on an IT transformation that was neither easy nor simple, but we’ve emerged more successful than ever.

• Former CEO Hugh Grant: Life After the Monsanto SaleJun. 22, 2018

  After nearly 40 years at Monsanto Co., the company that spread genetically engineered seed across the U.S. heartland and beyond, now-former chief executive Hugh Grant doe...

• Why Kaveri Seeds, which was propelled by hybrid cotton to the top, needs to do an encore with maize, rice and vegetables?Jun. 20, 2018

  Even today, Mithun Chand has a vivid recollection of his visit to the Indian Seed Congress in February 2011. Kaveri Seed Company, the business he represented as executive...

• Robots will support, not replace, growers in the futureJun. 20, 2018

• Weeds are winning in the war against herbicide resistanceJun. 19, 2018

• Corbion: Going Green - Exploring the Potential of Biobased SolventsJun. 19, 2018

  The agrochemicals industry is facing an imminent challenge. With the population rising at a rapid rate, the demand for global food supplies, grains in particular, is grea...

• Best way to control soybean rust is multipronged approachJun. 18, 2018

• Corteva: ‘Mother Nature’ changes the game quickly and demands new agricultural toolsJun. 18, 2018

  “Mother Nature” is changing quickly and this requires the adoption of technology-driven solutions that will help both growers and consumers, Jim Collins, the chief oper...

• Can new IARC director bridge gap between controversial cancer agency and rest of scientific community?Jun. 18, 2018

  In recent years the IARC Monographs program has been embroiled in controversy brought on by its assessments of a number of agents, including cell phones, formaldehyde, re...

• Syngenta : High risk of food shortages without pesticides, says chemical giantJun. 18, 2018

  Head of Syngenta, world’s biggest pesticide maker, says rejecting farming tech could have serious consequences within 20 years

• Brazilian farmers seeking directly agrochemical supply from manufacturersJun. 15, 2018

  A new business model could be an alternative for market access and keep higher margins.

• New Market Insights for Crop BiologicsJun. 15, 2018

• Drone industry launches into specialty agriculture marketJun. 15, 2018

  Drone scouts are poised to make precision agriculture even more exact as drone technology advances.

• Adjuvant taxation in BrazilJun. 14, 2018

• 3 Things Agri-Input Retailers want from AgTechJun. 14, 2018

• Not black and white: the regulatory status of plants from new breeding methodsJun. 13, 2018

  The Advocate General takes a differentiated view when assessing the regulatory status of plants resulting from new breeding methods.

• Alexandra Castillo, Product Safety Manager in Tradecorp: “There is still a lot of work ahead. The REACH Regulation did not end on May 31”Jun. 13, 2018

• EU blackleg becomes harder to manage as genetic tools failJun. 11, 2018

  Farmers in the United Kingdom could be facing trouble with rapeseed as new research warns of a resistance gene at risk in the crop.

  Tags:Oilseed Rape

• How a genetically modified soybean helped modernize an economyJun. 8, 2018

  As Brazil grew richer in the 2000s, its agricultural workers left their farms in droves and headed to work in the rapidly growing industrial sector.

  Tags:GM cropSoybean

• Breeding better Brazilian riceJun. 7, 2018

  Outside Asia, no country produces as much rice as does Brazil. It is the ninth largest rice producer in the world. Average annual yields are close to 15 million tons.

  Tags:Rice

• What farmers need to know about Bayer’s purchase of MonsantoJun. 6, 2018

  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, leaving many ...

• These 4 tech trends are driving us toward food abundanceJun. 5, 2018

  From a first-principles perspective, the task of feeding eight billion people boils down to converting energy from the sun into chemical energy in our bodies.Traditionall...

• Crop nutrition market in Brazil: a growing businessJun. 4, 2018

  Brazil stands out as one of the largest producers and exporters of grains in the world. In the next year, it is expected to become the world's largest exporter, surpassin...

• Biotechnica: The Largest Manufacturer of Seaweed Extract in the UKJun. 1, 2018

• Why 7.5m Kenyan farmers are yet to adopt new seed varietiesJun. 1, 2018

  Liza Thima, a 65 -year- old retiree, began farming her 15-acre land in Kirinyaga County 10 years ago after her teaching job ended. To date, she cultivates seeds that are ...

• China's slow approvals of biotech crops cost U.S. $7 bln, says industry groupMay. 31, 2018

  Delays in Chinese approvals of imported genetically modified crops have cut U.S. gross domestic product by about $7 billion over the past five years by reducing sales of ...

  Tags:GM crop

• Sorghum-based biofuels key to sustainable bioenergy economyMay. 31, 2018

  Few of us would recognize a sorghum field in bloom and fewer still would be able to distinguish a corn seedling from a sorghum seedling. Yet, this old-world crop is slowl...

• Chemical, biological, digital technology integrated crop protection solutionMay. 30, 2018

• 'Adulterated seed dealers threaten farm productivity in Nigeria', says the Director General of Nigeria's National Agricultural Seed CouncilMay. 28, 2018

  Farm yields and productivity in Nigeria remain a challenge for millions of smallholder farmers, and an important component of this is seeds. Philip Olusegun Ojo, director...