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• Monsanto wins its first jury trial in glyphosate lawsuit

  Date：Oct. 11, 2021 Category：Companies

  A California jury has ruled in favor of Monsanto in a case claiming its glyphosate product Roundup caused a young boy's rare form of cancer.

• Uganda edges toward accepting biotechnology as climate challenges mount

  Date：Oct. 11, 2021 Category：Markets

  Faced with weather extremes, food insecurity and a fast-growing population, there is growing acceptance in Uganda for adopting innovative biotechnologies to add...

• SGS establishes new GLP soil characterization service in Germany

  Date：Oct. 11, 2021 Category：Companies

  SGS GROUP

  The facility features equipment such as a sieving tower, balances and a drying cabinet, and aims to provide a new service for the European region: GLP soil char...

• International partnership develops warning system for wheat blast risk

  Date：Oct. 11, 2021 Category：Markets

  CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)

  The Early Warning System (EWS)is a platform that simulates the risks of wheat blast incidence based on the collection of meteorological data. EWS is the result ...

  Tags:Pests&Diseaseswheat

• Cibus appoints co-founder Rory Riggs as Chief Executive Officer

  Date：Oct. 11, 2021 Category：Companies

  Cibus

  Cibus announced the appointment of Rory Riggs, co-founder, and Chairman of Cibus, to serve as Chief Executive Officer. He will succeed Peter Beetham, PhD, also ...

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• Corteva faces slow start as it takes aim at Bayer's Brazil soy reign

  Date：Oct. 11, 2021 Category：Companies

  Corteva Agriscience

  U.S. pesticide and seed maker Corteva Inc will take up to three times longer to break into Brazil’s genetically modified soy seed market than it did in the Uni...

• Mexico nixes new GMO corn permit for first time, farm lobby says

  Date：Oct. 11, 2021 Category：Regulations

  Mexican health safety regulators have rejected a new variety of GMO corn for the first time, the head of the country's top farm lobby told Reuters, in a sign th...

• World food prices hit 10-year peak -FAO

  Date：Oct. 11, 2021 Category：Markets

  World food prices rose for a second consecutive month in September to reach a 10-year peak, driven by gains for cereals and vegetable oils, the United Nations f...

  Tags:AgriData

• China's energy crisis impacts global agribusiness, says Rabobank

  Date：Oct. 11, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  According to a report published by Rabobank, in recent weeks, power cuts in 16 provinces of China have disrupted production across industrial sectors, and, in s...

• Black Bird Biotech Launches MiteXstream Online Store for Direct Sales to Commercial and Home Users

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Companies

  Black Bird Potentials Inc.

  Black Bird Biotech, Inc. (OTC PINK:BBBT), manufacturer of plant-based MiteXstream™ biopesticide, announced that it has launched an online store for its game-ch...

• 5Metis Announced as Fifth 2021 F3 Tech Accelerator Participant

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Companies

  5Metis

  ​F3 Tech, an agriculture innovation accelerator program for early-stage companies supported by the nonprofit Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center and the U.S....

• Discovering Novel Insecticides with Nanoparticles

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Dr. Priyom Bose

  Nanotechnology has a wide range of applications, including modern agriculture. With a particle size ranging between 1 and 100 nm in diameter, nanoparticles are ...

• Bayer enters the organic seed business

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Companies

  Bayer CropScience AG

  Bayer has announced it will expand its vegetable seed offerings in early 2022 to include organically produced seeds for tomato, sweet pepper and cucumber under ...

• US agrochemical industry to be driven by huge investments towards new herbicides coupled with demand surge for biopesticides: Ken Research

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Markets

  Biopesticides with potentially less risk to humans & the environment are expected to grow over long term. Within this context, discovery of new substances and r...

• Global concern about rising fertilizer prices

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Markets

  Rising fertilizer prices could affect how the next plantings are oriented in the United States, while China's problems with energy costs could also affect the c...

• Citrus fruit: Asian citrus psyllid discovered in Guyana

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Markets

  The Asian citrus psyllid Diaphorina citri, a dreaded insect for citrus trees and a vector of one of the most dreaded citrus diseases - citrus greening or Huangl...

• Administering a plant vaccine can add an extra layer of protection

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Markets

  Around one hundred years ago, Louis Pasteur started developing vaccines against cholera and anthrax. However, few people know that in this period, scientists st...

• Firm soars high with cutting-edge crop-spraying drones in Africa

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Companies

  Unitrans Africa

  UNITRANS Africa’s 50-year involvement in cutting-edge agricultural innovations across the continent is set to soar to new heights after the company’s recent a...

• UPL appoints Naina Lal Kidwai as Independent Director

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Companies

  UPL Limited

  UPL Limited has informed that the Board of Directors has appointed Naina Lal Kidwai as an Additional Director (Non-Executive & Independent) on the Board of the ...

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• Innoterra India & ICAR partner to save bananas from the deadly panama wilt disease

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Companies

  Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR)

  Innoterra India, one of India's largest fruit producers and exporters through its business unit Desai AgriFoods, has signed a global partnership agreement with ...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• India: Bhagwanth Khuba addresses FICCI Interaction and Launch of GCPMH 2021

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Markets

  On September 15, Shri Bhagwanth Khuba, Union Minister of State for Chemicals & fertilizers and New & Renewable Energy addressed the FICCI Interaction and Launch...

• Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) calls for comment on changing definitions for genetically modified foods

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Regulations

  Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking public comment on its proposed approach to changing the definitions for ‘food produced using gene techn...

  Tags:GM cropBiotech

• GrowGeneration signs distribution agreement with Groundwork BioAg

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Companies

  Groundwork BioAg, Ltd.

  GrowGeneration Corp. and Groundwork BioAg announced that they have entered into a distribution agreement to offer DYNOMYCO, a unique brand of highly-concentrate...

  Tags:Inoculant

• Enko, Nufarm partner on novel crop health molecules

  Date：Oct. 8, 2021 Category：Companies

  Enko, the crop health company, and agrochemical company Nufarm announced their partnership to develop novel chemistries and expand the supply chain of critical ...

• New broadly applicable tool provides insight into fungicide resistance

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors (SDHIs) are a class of fungicides widely used to control many fungal diseases of crops. The relationship between SDHIs and fu...

• Meristem and Keller Enterprises announce agreement

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Companies

  Meristem Crop Performance Group, LLC

  Meristem Crop Performance Group, LLC (www.meristemag.com) and Keller Enterprises, LLC announced a new strategic supply agreement to serve farmers in East Centra...

• Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator Selects Five Early-Stage Sustainable Indoor Agriculture Companies

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Companies

  Global food demand is anticipated to grow by 60 percent within the next 30 years. To meet the demand sustainably, the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), a ...

• Inflexion Point Technologies and ALMACO collaborate to commercialize the industry’s first prescriptive, on-planter seed treatment (POP-ST™) solution

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Companies

  Almaco

  Inflexion Point Technologies, LLC (IPT) and ALMACO announced a business relationship that will sustainably increase food productivity and farmer profitability b...

• Legend Seeds acquires Kussmaul Seed Company

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Companies

  Legend Seeds

  Legend Seeds announced the acquisition of the Kussmaul Seed Company out of Mount Hope, Wisconsin. The acquisition enables Legend Seeds to grow business within a...

• Koppert: Upgrade eco-friendly coolbox delivers beneficial insects

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Products

  Koppert Biological Systems（KOPPERT B.V.）

  The Eco-friendly Coolbox to ship beneficial insects that Koppert introduced earlier this year has been upgraded after trials that have resulted in better qualit...