Latest news

• Endocrine disruptors: EFSA and ECHA start work on guidance

  Dec. 7, 2016

• 

  China's "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping sets new world records

  Dec. 7, 2016

  # Science & Research ## China Special #

• Australia approved Sumitomo Chemical’s fungicide Intuity

  Dec. 7, 2016

  Sumitomo Chemical Australia Pty Ltd

  # Newly Registered / Launched #
• 

  Australia approved ISK’s fungicide Kusabi

  Dec. 7, 2016

  Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd. (ISK)

  # Newly Registered / Launched #

• Australian winter crop production to hit record high of 52.4 mn tonnes

  Dec. 7, 2016

• Canada PMRA to host webinar on imidacloprid

  Dec. 7, 2016

• India: Lack of PoS machines may delay nationwide direct transfer of fertiliser subsidy rollout

  Dec. 7, 2016

• 

  Bejo promotes the organic food chain, RIGHT from the START, at Biofach 2017

  Dec. 7, 2016

  Bejo Zaden BV

• To cure crop disease faster, add bugs

  Dec. 7, 2016

  # Science & Research #
• 

  Mitsubishi Corporation and Hitachi Form Remote Sensing Joint Venture SkymatiX, Inc.

  Dec. 6, 2016

  Mitsubishi Corporation

  # Drone/UAV Plant Protection Industry #
• 

  Brandt's COO Tim McArdle named chairman of Agricultural Retailers Association

  Dec. 6, 2016

  BRANDT(former Brandt Consolidated Inc.)

• New technology approved to strengthen corn in Argentina

  Dec. 6, 2016

  # Latin America Focus #

• Brazil, UK develop wheat resistant to Fusarium Head Blight through partnership

  Dec. 6, 2016

  # Science & Research ## Latin America Focus #

• APVMA made advances in improving application assessment times

  Dec. 6, 2016

• 

  Syngenta launches application to monitor coffee plagues in Brazil

  Dec. 6, 2016

  Syngenta Brazil

  # Digital Agriculture ## Latin America Focus #

• GMO contributes $127 billion to Argentinean economy in 2 decades

  Dec. 6, 2016

  # Latin America Focus #
• 

  Proxy advisory firms recommend shareholders vote for Monsanto-Bayer merger

  Dec. 6, 2016

  Monsanto Company

  # Merger & Acquisition #
• 

  Bayer launches Luxxur, the first wheat herbicide solution for Canadian farmers to tackle wild oats and perennials

  Dec. 6, 2016

  Bayer CropScience Canada
• 

  Bayer and FaunaPhotonics form research collaboration to develop sensor technology for improved monitoring of insect pests

  Dec. 6, 2016

  Bayer CropScience AG

  # Digital Agriculture ## Drone/UAV Plant Protection Industry #
• 

  Kumiai Chemical to merge with Ihara Chemical

  Dec. 6, 2016

  Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

  # Merger & Acquisition #
• 

  Court sides with growers on seeds treated with pesticides

  Dec. 6, 2016

  # Seed Treatment #
• 

  New Key Acount Manager for Incotec North America

  Dec. 6, 2016

  Incotec

  # Appointment & Recruitment #
• 

  Calyxt Appoints Seed & Trait Veteran Bryan Corkal to New Chief Financial Officer Role

  Dec. 6, 2016

  Calyxt

  # Appointment & Recruitment #

• US EPA granted data waivers for acute dermal toxicity studies for formulated pesticide products

  Dec. 6, 2016

• LGC and Desktop Genetics receive SynbiCITE funding to develop novel methods for CRISPR genome editing analysis

  Dec. 6, 2016

• ESA advice for safe use of treated seed

  Dec. 6, 2016

  # Seed Treatment #
• 

  The BioAg Alliance launches new yield-boosting microbial seed coating

  Dec. 6, 2016

  The BioAg Alliance
• 

  Marrone Bio Innovations’ Regalia® Maxx biofungicide approved in Chile

  Dec. 6, 2016

  Pro-Farm Group - Formerly Marrone Bio Innovations

  # Biopesticide & Biocontrol ## Newly Registered / Launched #
• 

  Charting the Thailand Rice Market

  Dec. 6, 2016

  Monthira Pibanthan
• 

  Repar Corporation developed unique biochemical substance Maintain® CF 125 for Pineapple

  Dec. 6, 2016

  Repar corporation