Bayer CropScience: Acquisitions, Collaborations and Investments in 2014

AgroPages recently made a summary of the acquisitions, cooperations and investments from global agrochemical enterprises in 2014, which is outlined in 3 categories—the top 6 global agrochemical multinationals, the generic agrochemical leaders and others. The information will be successively presented in accordance with the single company.

In general, Bayer CropScience showed more interest in investment on seed/trait in 2014. The company invested $29.6 million in the expansion of its North American and global Seeds headquarters, actively expanded global breeding network of its strategic crops wheat, soybean and oilseed, and opened new SeedGrowth Center in Vietnam. It also established extensive cooperations with Biotech Companies.The details are as follow:

Acquisitions:
Bayer CropScience acquires the seed business of Granar S.A.
Bayer CropScience acquired seed treatment company Biagro Group
Bayer CropScience acquired certain DuPont Crop Protection Land Management assets in the United States， Canada， Mexico， Australia and New Zealand

Collaborations:
Bayer CropScience and Plant Impact signed agreement on Veritas® technology
Bayer CropScience and Kaiima partner to improve rice productivity
Bayer CropScience joins John Deere in developing digital tools
Bayer CropScience，Targenomix enter into research collaboration agreement for the exploration of metabolic and regulatory networks in plants
Bayer CropScience and GreenLight Biosciences form partnership to explore applications of GreenLight’s proprietary cell-free technologies
Bayer CropScience and Cellectis extend gene editing partnership
Bayer cropscience and Texas Tech announce breakthrough in the structure of the cotton A-genome
Bayer CropScience and Beijing Yoloo signed collaboration agreement on insecticide
Ceres licenses DNA Browser Software to Bayer CropScience

Investments:
Bayer CropScience invests $6.5M in agrochem plant expansion in Canada
Bayer CropScience opens Weed Resistance Competence Center in Frankfurt， Germany
Bayer CropScience plans to construct wheat facility in Canada
Bayer CropScience opened $14 million wheat and oilseed breeding centre in Australia
Bayer CropScience expands activities in Africa to help raise agricultural productivity
Bayer CropScience invested $29.6 million in North American and global seeds headquarters
Bayer CropScience opens new SeedGrowth Center in Vietnam
Bayer CropScience unveils new field technology station in US
Bayer CropScience expands SeedGrowth Centers in US
Bayer CropScience opens new seed breeding research facility at Memphis， US
Bayer CropScience starts building wheat breeding centre in Canada