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• Elizabeth Lowery Joins Anuvia Plant Nutrients Board of Directors

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Companies

  Anuvia Plant Nutrients

  Anuvia Plant Nutrients announced that Elizabeth Lowery, a nationally recognized expert on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, has joined the com...

• Danforth Center wins $1.5M EDA grant to lead new Center for AgTech and Applied Location Science and Technology

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Companies

  The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has won a $1.5 million competitive Build to Scale grant from the US Department of Commerce Economic Development Adminis...

• Tradecorp launched the biostimulant Biimore in India

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Products

  Tradecorp Nutri-Performance

  Tradecorp has launched the biostimulant Biimore in India (marketed as Quikon). The product was initially developed for the Brazilian market and became the coun...

• USDA/NIFA announces more than $146M investment in sustainable agricultural research

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Markets

  United States Department of Agriculture(USDA)

  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today an investment of more than $146 million in sustainable agricultural research project...

• FFAR & Syngenta Foundation seek applications for global climate-smart practices assessment

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Companies

  Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)

  Climate change is likely to cause considerable declines in crop yields, with the most detrimental losses affecting smallholder farmers in developing countries. ...

• MIT Sloan and Bayer team up to cultivate digital intrapreneurship capability

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Companies

  Bayer AG

  A collaboration between MIT Sloan Executive Education and Bayer provided a unique opportunity for participants to directly engage their R&D executives and pitch...

• FMC Corporation appoints Business Sustainability Head in Asia Pacific, Kristina Hermanson assumes ASEAN Business Lead

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Companies

  FMC Corporation

  FMC Corporation, a global agricultural sciences company, has named Shahid Saleem, ASEAN Business Lead, as Director of Business Sustainability and Strategic Init...

• Seipasa’s Pirecris label is extended in Morocco for use in berry growing

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Products

  SEIPASA SA

  Seipasa, the Spanish company specialised in the development and formulation of bioinsecticides, biofungicides and biostimulants for agriculture has announced th...

• Pluton Biosciences raises $6.6 million in seed round funding

  Date：Oct. 7, 2021 Category：Companies

  Pluton Biosciences

  St. Louis-based startup Pluton Biosciences recently announced the closing of its Seed Round, raising a total of $6.61 million in new investments.

• Tide Rock Holdings acquired two seed coating companies

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Companies

  Midwest Seed Genetics

  California-based Tide Rock Holdings has acquired two seed coating companies, including one in Indiana. Financial terms of the deal for New Albany-based Midwest ...

• Weed goes off script to resist herbicides

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Markets

  Cementing waterhemp’s reputation as a hard-to-kill weed in corn and soybean production systems, University of Illinois researchers have now documented the weed...

• M2i Group obtained the registration of several of its biological crop protection solutions

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Products

  M2i Life Sciences

  M2i Group has obtained the registration of several of its biological crop protection solutions. The registration includes three market authorizations for f...

• HempFlax invests €3.0m in headquarters, creating the world’s most advanced hemp processing facility

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Companies

  HempFlax

  HempFlax, Europe’s largest independent hemp grower and processor, recently announced plans to invest €3.0m at its headquarters in Oude Pekela, Holland.

• Meristem and Tidewater Seed announce agreement

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Companies

  Meristem Crop Performance Group, LLC

  Meristem Crop Performance Group, LLC (meristemag.com) and Tidewater Seed, LLC (tidewaterseed.com) today announced a new strategic supply agreement to serve farm...

• Maximize Corteva Agriscience crop protection purchases with the TruChoice offer

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Products

  Corteva Agriscience

  Corteva Agriscience is providing more options for farmers to save on crop protection products with a simpler TruChoice® offer and its biggest giveaway opportun...

• Digital precision farming company OneSoil announces new CEO to strengthen global growth

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Companies

  OneSoil

  Swiss company OneSoil announced that Morten Schmidt joined the team as the new CEO on October 1. Morten brings more than 15 years of management experience from ...

• Leading Ag Tech Startup Iron Ox appoints Claudia Fulga as Vice President

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Companies

  Iron Ox

  Iron Ox, a farming innovation company with deep expertise in plant science, robotics and artificial intelligence, announced recently that it has hired Claudia F...

• Attune Agriculture’s Ampersand® and Accomplice® Adjuvant A Resource for Growers During Herbicide Shortage

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Products

  ATTUNE AGRICULTURE

  Attune Agriculture, the leader in developing performance based agricultural products using hydrocolloid technology, joins growers and distributors in the ag com...

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• Citrus Greening inevitable for North Florida and South Georgia

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Markets

  Citrus greening disease will most certainly become an issue for North Florida and South Georgia citrus growers. Fred Gmitter, a University of Florida Institute ...

• NRGene launches new off-the-shelf soy genotyping solution

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Companies

  NRGene

  NRGene (TASE: NRGN), a worldwide leader in AI-based genomic analysis for research and agricultural breeding, recently announced the launch of Soy SNPro™. This...

• Calyxt announces new strategic direction to provide sustainable, plant-based synthetic biology solutions to expanded group of end markets and diversified base of customers

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Companies

  Calyxt

  Calyxt, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLXT), a plant-based synthetic biotechnology company, recently announced the launch of a strategic initiative that will focus the Company ...

• Syngenta explores insect scanner technology in agriculture

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Products

  Syngenta Crop Protection AG

  Syngenta Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) is exploring the application of insect scanner technology in agriculture. The challenge is to make biodivers...

• Microbial revolution promises to upend agriculture and future of food

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  For decades, new technologies in agriculture have assisted farmers by making food production more efficient. Artificial fertilizers have raised productivity, wh...

• Novozymes and Anuvia Plant Nutrients join forces to bring sustainable bio-sased nutrients to commercial agriculture

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Companies

  Novozymes

  Novozymes, the world leader in biological solutions and Anuvia Plant Nutrients, an innovative plant nutrient company, recently announced that they have joined f...

• Pitura Seeds joins Agro.Club as first Canadian retail partner, provides farm customers with new digital options

  Date：Oct. 6, 2021 Category：Companies

  Pitura Seeds

  Pitura Seeds recently announced that it is partnering with Agro.Club Canada. Pitura Seeds is the first retailer to join Agro.Club’s Canadian online ecosystem, ...

• TechAccel expands in St. Louis, Missouri with facilities at the Bio Research Development & Growth (BRDG) Park

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Companies

  TechAccel

  TechAccel on Monday announced that it has completed a lease agreement for office and lab space at the Bio Research Development & Growth (BRDG) Park on the campu...

• BASF will present its new tomato and melon crop proposals at Fruit Attraction

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Products

  Nunhems (BASF Vegetable Seeds)

  BASF will participate in the first face-to-face edition of Fruit Attraction (9C11) since the beginning of the pandemic, which will be held from October 5 to the...

• Best Agrolife passes resolution on Best Crop Science acquisition

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Companies

  Best Agrolife Limited

  New Delhi-based Best Agrolife at its 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM) passed a resolution on the acquisition of Best Crop Science by Issue of Equity Shares on ...

• Pressure BioSciences UST platform successfully transforms neem oil into a novel, highly potent nanoemulsion for more effective agrochemical applications

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Companies

  Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (PBI)

  Pressure BioSciences, Inc. recently announced the successful application of its Ultra Shear Technology™ platform for the development of safe, natural, and envi...

• US EPA announces updates on its efforts to address PFAS in pesticide packaging

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to work diligently to address per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment and is provi...