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• Costa Rica will restrict the use of glyphosate in agriculture

  Date：Jun. 21, 2019 Category：Markets

  Costa Rica's Ministry of Health announced that it will restrict the use of glyphosate in some sectors of the country and that there will be new regulations in o...

  Tags:Glyphosate

• Corteva Agriscience and John Deere invest in technology solutions and tools to help African farmers improve

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  Corteva Agriscience

  Corteva Agriscience™ and John Deere, the world’s largest manufacturer and supplier of equipment, kicked off a three-day marketing collaboration where they pre...

• FAO’s seed fair links farmers to certified quality seed in northeastern Nigeria

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Gombi local government area lies two hours outside Yola, the capital of Adamawa, and a mere three-hour drive to Cameroon.

• American Seed Trade Association announces new leadership team

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Markets

  American Seed Trade Association(ASTA)

  The American Seed Trade Association’s (ASTA) newly-elected officer team was announced during ASTA's Policy & Leadership Development Conference (PLDC) in Denver...

• KWS is making a start in the vegetable seeds business and acquires Pop Vriend Seeds

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  KWS SAAT SE

  Today, seed specialist KWS SAAT SE announced that the company has signed a binding agreement to acquire Pop Vriend Seeds (Andijk/NL).

  Tags:Acquisition

• Correction! Portuguese companies CEV and Lusosem will launch BLAD biofungicide in Portugal

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Products

  Portuguese company CEV has partnered with Lusosem to launch the biofungicide PROBLAD PLUS in Portugal. PROBLAD PLUS is a biological defensive for agriculture wh...

• Seed Co. posts 11 percent growth in operating profits

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  Zimbabwe’s largest seed producer, Seed Co Limited posted an 11,14 percent growth in operating profit to $24 million for the year to March 2019 from $22 million...

  Tags:Sales Performance

• HM.CLAUSE leads the fight against Rough Tomato Fruit Virus (ToBRFV)

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  Due to the appearance and rapid spread of the Rugged Virus of Tomato Fruit (ToBRFV), HM.CLAUSE IBÉRICA organised a technical conference in Almeria last Thursda...

• Stoller Group announces Death of Founder, Jerry H. Stoller

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  STOLLER USA

  Stoller Enterprises Founder, Jerry H. Stoller passed away on June 19, 2019. He was 84.

• BASF's Zidua SC herbicide receives label changes for extended use in 2019

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Products

  Changes to the Zidua SC herbicide (pyroxasulfone) label will provide growers with a new level of flexibility this season. The label change extends the postemerg...

  Tags:Label expansionBASFHerbicidesPyroxasulfone

• AMVAC's SIMPAS to be featured on advancements with Ted Danson TV show

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  American Vanguard Corporation （AMVAC)

  An upcoming episode of Advancements with Ted Danson will highlight recent advances in agriculture. This episode is scheduled to broadcast during the third quart...

• University of Minnesota releases "MN-Washburn" wheat variety

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Products

  The University of Minnesota (UMN) has released a new hard red spring wheat variety called 'MN-Washburn.' MN-Washburn features excellent straw strength and good ...

  Tags:wheat

• EU Commission confirms non-renewal decision on chlorpropham

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Products

  A decision by the European Commission has shown that from 1st January 2020 the germ inhibitor and herbicide chlorpropham is no longer permitted. The European Po...

  Tags:Chlorpropham

• Adding glyphosate to dicamba increases volatility, researchers find

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Glyphosate is often tank-mixed with dicamba. New research suggests spraying dicamba in warm temperatures and adding glyphosate to a dicamba spray mixture could ...

  Tags:Glyphosate

• Valent BioSciences Joins the International Phytobiomes Alliance

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  Valent BioSciences Corporation (VBC)

  The International Alliance for Phytobiomes Research announces Valent BioSciences as a new sponsoring partner of the organization.

• Ghana: New law to regulate GM foods laid in Parliament for approval

  Date：Jun. 20, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A new law that will help regulate the introduction of Genetically Modified (GMO) foods in Ghana has been laid in parliament for approval.

• Iowa State researchers studying slow-release fertilizer to make biochar more valuable

  Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Iowa State University researchers weren’t looking for a slow-release fertilizer that could feed crops while protecting water quality, but they may have found o...

• BASF’s xarvio Digital Farming Solutions announces new digital collaboration with Nutrien Ag Solutions

  Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

  BASF Crop Protection

  BASF and Nutrien Ag Solutions announced recently a digital collaboration to provide their customers with easier access to leading agronomic tools. As part of th...

• Columbia University researcher studies how climate change affects crops in India

  Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Markets

  In a paper published in Environmental Research Letters, Kyle Davis from Data Science Institute of Columbia University found that in India, the yields from grain...

• Tec-Fort: An ecological insecticide from Grupo Agrotecnología, developed with Promicell Technology

  Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Products

  Grupo Agrotecnología developed its new insecticide, Tec-Fort, based on its exclusive Promicell Technology.

• Brazil Anvisa approves inclusion of new chemical and biological pesticides

  Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Products

  Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) approved the inclusion of new monographs in May 2019. They include one chemical herbicide and three biolo...

• Bees and Bejo: natural partners in seed production

  Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

  Bejo is an international producer of vegetable seeds. Honey bees are perhaps our most important employees. We keep our own bees and are internationally active i...

• Brazil authorizes 31 more agrochemical registrations in May 2019

  Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Markets

  The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) of Brazil registered 31 agrochemicals in May. In total, 169 products were authorized in 2019, represent...

• EBIC president: education crucial to growth of biostimulants industry

  Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  European Biostimulants Industry Consortium (EBIC)

  Luca Bonini knows there are short- and long-term challenges facing the biostimulants industry. As the new President of the European Biostimulants Industry Counc...

• Innovative approach to tackling pesticide resistance evolution, the study will focus on Brazil

  Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A new £620,000 study led by the University of Stirling is taking a "revolutionary approach" in attempting to tackle resistance to pesticides in insects.

• SePRO launches Zio fungicide in the USA

  Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Products

  SePRO Corporation

  SePRO recently launched its Zio fungicide, which is a new tool for golf course superintendents, landscapers, and growers designed to manage several important tu...

• FMC launches foliar disease fungicide Lucento in the USA

  Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Products

  FMC Corporation

  FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has introduced Lucento fungicide, a new tool that provides long-lasting preventive and curative activity for a rang...

• Corteva Agriscience introduces DuraCor herbicide

  Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Products

  Corteva Agriscience

  Corteva Agriscience, the agriculture division of DowDuPont, Indianapolis, Indiana, unveiled DuraCor herbicide as its newest anticipated broadleaf weed control p...

• Launched in Brazil, Artificial Intelligence Cl4udIA, seeks to save up to 60% in pesticides

  Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Products

  The Cl4udIA Artificial Intelligence tool was launched in Brazil, which minimizes the spraying of agrochemicals and generates savings of up to 60% of pesticides....

• UPL helps Brazilian potato producer to get GlobalGAP certification

  Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Companies

  UPL Brasil

  UPL has provided all support to Rocheto Group, Brazil's largest pre-fried potato processor (through the company Bem Brasil), in the process of achieving the int...