Viewpoint & Interview

• Merger wave: Effect on crop seed prices

  Date：Jan. 14, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The global seed industry has been reshaped by several mergers over the last years. What does this mean for seed prices for farmers for example? Experts from the...

• Interview with Martin Gruss, former Global Head Bayer SeedGrowth, and his successor Boualem Saidi : The new setup for growth

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

  With more than 100 years as a leader in the seed treatment market, Bayer SeedGrowth stands for expertise, engagement, and consistency. Read how Martin Gruss, fo...

• China's approval of DowDuPont soy poses challenge to Bayer

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

  China’s approval of imports of a DowDuPont Inc (DWDP.N) genetically modified soybean puts rival Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) on the defensive, investors and analysts sa...

• Fera: Learning the microbead lesson

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

  A UK-wide prohibition on the use of plastic microbeads came into effect in 2018, but what fundamental lessons can we learn from this high profile case? Dr Racha...

• Biopesticides could be a safe solution to combat fall armyworm in African countries

  Date：Jan. 10, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Through our research we identified 23 active ingredients that we recommended for further consideration. We also identified eight active ingredients that should ...

• Bayer Crop Science R&D pipeline: toward tailored solutions for farmers around the world

  Date：Jan. 8, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The transition from one year to the next is a time of reflection for many people – and I’m no exception.

• A Review of 6,000 studies over two decades delivers its verdict on GMO corn

  Date：Jan. 8, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  There is a great deal of misinformation out there regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

  Tags:GM crop

• The future of crop protection is hybrid

  Date：Jan. 7, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

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  For centuries, farmers have sought to shield their crops from weeds, pests, nematodes, and various diseases by using pesticides to protect and continue nourishi...

• Jancen Ag Law reviews largest agtech trends in 2018

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

  E-Commerce. I think 2018 was the year ag retailers woke up to find e-commerce knocking on their door. FBN launched its own seed brand to sell online, after bein...

• AgTech Trends in 2019: Synthetic Biology, Precision Agriculture, and Millennial Farmers

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

  With a heavy dose of innovation and disruption, agriculture technology, or agtech, has transformed the operational processes and expectations of the agriculture...

• Japan falling behind in genome editing

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

  A research and development race to develop new plant and livestock cultivars by altering target genetic information using genome-editing technology (see below) ...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Game-changing solutions for agriculture

  Date：Jan. 3, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Canada’s agriculture and agri-food sector is strong and growing. However, the challenges the sector is faced with are also growing. Climate change, rising cost...

• Breeding sorghum in South Africa could be breakthrough for biofuels

  Date：Jan. 3, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  A breakthrough by the African Centre for Crop Improvement in the breeding of sorghum could have far-reaching implications for the biofuel and bioplastic industr...

• What’s new in the world seed market?

  Date：Jan. 3, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The first objective in seed business is to improve new varieties. To target farmers, seed companies have to provide the most desired cultivars and they must be ...

• Supporting New Entrants into Farming in Japan

  Date：Jan. 2, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  This paper analyzes the trend and agendas of new entrants into farming and proposes the actions to be taken by agricultural cooperatives to support them in Japa...

• Aussie hesitation on GM canola a costly mistake

  Date：Jan. 2, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Researchers say Australia’s decision to delay seeding GM canola had negative economic and environmental implications

  Tags:GM cropOilseed Rape

• Brazil soy seen threatened in early 2019 by below-average rains

  Date：Jan. 2, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The first days of 2019 will be marked by below-normal rainfall in Brazil’s main soybean producing areas, with farmers bracing for losses as December’s dry con...

  Tags:Soybean

• Pump & Dump in agrochemical industry!

  Date：Dec. 28, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  It is high time for parent companies to have a serious look at the current set of management at domestic subsidiaries; some of them may consist of people who ha...

• India: Not a bad year for agri input companies

  Date：Dec. 28, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Promise of higher MSP (Minimum Support Price) from the Centre in the Budget saw agri input companies stepping into 2018 cheerfully, but it ultimately turned in...

• Challenges begin to emerge for UPL Arysta combine

  Date：Dec. 27, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  UPL Ltd’s $4.2 billion purchase of Arysta LifeScience Inc. avoided the typical investor scepticism associated with large acquisitions. With the management conv...

• Punching Above Your Wheat: How Israel Became a Hub for Agtech Startups

  Date：Dec. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Even before the state of Israel’s founding, pioneers emphasized cultivating the land through innovative and efficient agricultural work – 70 years after state...

• Bangladesh GM seeds may face hurdles

  Date：Dec. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  A lack of purchasing power in the farming sector dominated by small and marginal people may restrict the wider use of genetically modified (GM) seeds in Banglad...

  Tags:GM crop

• Breeders help wheat beat the heat

  Date：Dec. 25, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Wheat is a cool season crop with an optimal daytime growing temperature of 15 C during the critical reproductive stage. Here on the Prairies, we can see 30 C du...

  Tags:wheat

• A Review of Indonesia’s Agriculture Development in Recent Years 2014 – 2018

  Date：Dec. 25, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The challenge of Indonesian agricultural development is how to achieve the fulfillment of the needs of the leading commodities of food crops, horticulture, live...

• Responsible innovation key to smart farming

  Date：Dec. 24, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Responsible innovation that considers the wider impacts on society is key to smart farming, according to academics at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

• Satellite and drone technologies are changing the face of agronomic research

  Date：Dec. 21, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Heather McNairn, a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Ottawa Research and Development Centre, looked at the role satellites have begun ...

• "Cancer has no direct relation with pesticides", says Brazilian authority on toxicological pathology

  Date：Dec. 21, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  "With regard to pesticides on the market, available evidence does not support the existence of a direct and causal association between cancer rates in humans an...

• International experts discuss progress and challenges of maize research and development in Asia

  Date：Dec. 21, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The importance of maize in Asian cropping systems has grown rapidly in recent years, with several countries registering impressive growth rates in maize product...

  Tags:Maize

• BioTEPP: Striving to be the global leader in viral bio-pesticide

  Date：Dec. 20, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  BioTEPP Inc. is an innovative biotechnology company that produces environmentally friendly biopesticides thus reducing the spreading of chemical pesticides. Its...

• Gene edited food imports into the European Union will be almost impossible to spot

  Date：Dec. 20, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  European law currently requires food packaging to be labelled GM if more than 0.9% of any one ingredient is genetically modified.

  Tags:GM cropGene Editing