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• Koppert reveals new branding: inspired by nature

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Companies

  Koppert Biological Systems（KOPPERT B.V.）

  Koppert presents its new logo and branding. Koppert has grown and evolved tremendously since it was founded. Therefore, after 30 years it was time for an update...

• GROWMARK, Inc. acquires remaining ownership interest in AgriVisor, LLC

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Companies

  GROWMARK, Inc.

  GROWMARK, Inc. is now the sole owner and operator of AgriVisor, LLC, a full-service agricultural risk management and marketing services firm.

  Tags:Acquisition

• Rainbow 2021 net profit expected to reach nearly RMB 850 million

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Companies

  Shandong Weifang Rainbow Chemical Co., Ltd.

  Rainbow released its 2021 annual performance preannouncement on January 7, revealing an increased operational performance in the reporting period, with net prof...

• Corteva Agriscience modernizes Austrian seed plant

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Companies

  Corteva Agriscience Europe

  Corteva Agriscience has announced capital investment of almost €5 million at its Austrian production plant to make the processing of seeds safer and more effic...

  Tags:Investment & Expansion

• Xingfa Group’s 2021 net profit increases significantly

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Companies

  Hubei Xingfa Chemicals Group Co Ltd

  Hubei Xingfa Chemical Group Co., Ltd issued its 2021 annual performance preannouncement on January 6, showing an expected increase in net profit attributable to...

• Yara and Lantmännen sign first commercial agreement for fossil free fertilizers

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Companies

  Yara and Lantmännen are the first companies to sign a commercial agreement to bring fossil free fertilizers to market. Produced with renewable energy, these gr...

  Tags:Carbon footprintCollaboration

• Nutrichem subsidiaries Wanquan Hongyu, Wanquan Lihua, shut till March-end

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Companies

  Nutrichem Company Limited

  Nutrichem recently announced the temporary suspension of production at its wholly-owned subsidiaries Wanquan Hongyu Chemical and Wanquan Lihua Chemical.

• BASF launches new herbicide solution L-glufosinate in China

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Products

  In January 2022, BASF officially introduced its non-selective herbicide JING•BAOSHIDA (L-Glufosinate 10% SL) to customers in China. Compared to glufosinat...

• Germany’s pesticide rules have major shortcomings – report

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Germany’s legal framework for using plant protection products has significant shortcomings, the conclusions of a report presented on Wednesday (12 January) by ...

• Green Planet launches organic urban farm

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Companies

  Green Planet Group (OTC PINK: GNPG) an emerging leader in green technology, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Healing the Earth Inc. (HTE) launched it...

  Tags:Organic Agriculture

• AgriCapture completes largest ever cover cropping program in the Mississippi River Valley to improve soil health and fight climate change

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Companies

  AgriCapture

  AgriCapture successfully implemented a 4,000-acre cover crop program after harvest in 2021. It is the largest ever cover cropping project of its kind in the Mis...

  Tags:Carbon footprint

• Valent BioSciences announces Osage facility environmental initiatives

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Companies

  Valent BioSciences LLC

  Valent BioSciences LLC announced that it is undertaking two major environmental initiatives at its biorational manufacturing facility in Osage, Iowa.

• ADAMA’s SDHI fungicide Panlimei^® launched in China

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Products

  ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd

  In January 2022, a product launching ceremony was held by ADAMA for its new fungicide, Panlimei® in China, which is a mixture of isopyrazam and difenoconazole ...

• Study challenges evolutionary theory that DNA mutations are random, findings could lead to advances in plant breeding

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Science&Research

  Asimple roadside weed may hold the key to understanding and predicting DNA mutation, according to new research from University of California, Davis, and the Max...

  Tags:BiotechSeed breeding

• FBSciences' SuperSede™ Line named one of Seed World's top ten most innovative products of 2021

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Products

  FBSciences Inc

  FBSciences' SuperSede™ line of seed treatment products has been named one of Seed World's top ten most innovative products of 2021.

  Tags:Seed treatment

• University of Hong Kong scientists discover activation mechanisms in soybean for adaptation to saline soil in hope of improving agriculture productivity

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Science&Research

  Scientists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have unveiled the molecular mechanisms activating salt-induced adaptive changes in soybean, bringing hope in p...

  Tags:Soybean

• BASF and its partners publish results for ‘Pragati’, the world’s first sustainable castor bean program

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Companies

  The founding members of the Pragati project for sustainable castor crop – Arkema, BASF SE, Jayant Agro-Organics along with implementation partner Solidaridad ...

• Genetic discovery to improve breeding for disease resistance in wheat

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Science&Research

  Australian and European researchers have discovered a genetic element in a common wheat pathogen with potential to help streamline breeding for disease-resistan...

  Tags:Seed breedingwheat

• EU ban of pesticides could impact U.S. growers

  Date：Jan. 14, 2022 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Mike Aerts, Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association’s vice president of science and regulatory affairs, recently shared an update from the European Union (EU) th...

• Netafim USA and Bayer partner to launch the “Precise Defense” crop protection solution for almond growers

  Date：Jan. 13, 2022 Category：Companies

  Netafim USA announced it has partnered with Bayer to create the Precise Defense program. This program represents a comprehensive solution designed specifically ...

  Tags:NematicidesCollaborationSpray & Irrigation

• GreenLight Biosciences expands Research Triangle Park, North Carolina footprint for the next generation of agricultural products

  Date：Jan. 13, 2022 Category：Companies

  GreenLight Biosciences, a biotechnology company focused on RNA research, design, and manufacturing for human, animal, and plant health, has announced the expans...

• Archive, a fungicide from Syngenta, helps save your harvest

  Date：Jan. 13, 2022 Category：Products

  Syngenta United States

  Potato growers facing post-harvest diseases now have a new option for protection during storage. Archive fungicide from Syngenta preserves potato quality in pos...

  Tags:FungicidesPotatoPost-harvest Solutions

• AMVAC, Verdesian Life Sciences expand relationship, add MicroSync^® IronClad to SIMPAS-applied solutions

  Date：Jan. 13, 2022 Category：Companies

  American Vanguard Corporation （AMVAC)

  AMVAC and Verdesian Life Sciences have agreed to expand their relationship to include MicroSync IronClad IDC micronutrient along with MicroSync ZINC micronutrie...

  Tags:Collaboration

• GM corn, soybean earn safety approval in China after pilot program

  Date：Jan. 13, 2022 Category：Products

  Genetically modified corn and soybean involved in a pilot program have obtained safety certificates for production and application after an assessment of food a...

  Tags:GM cropSoybeanMaize

• One gene closer to a sorghum Superman

  Date：Jan. 13, 2022 Category：Science&Research

  The newly discovered gene, named Anthracnose Resistance Gene1, or ARG1, is unusual in several ways, Tesfaye Mengiste, a professor and interim head of Purdue’s ...

  Tags:Biotech

• Global industry leader Neal Gutterson joins Groundwork BioAg’s advisory board

  Date：Jan. 13, 2022 Category：Companies

  Groundwork BioAg, Ltd.

  Groundwork BioAg expanded its advisory board with the addition of Neal Gutterson, PhD, Chief Technology Officer and Partner at Radicle Growth and recently retir...

  Tags:People

• Soli Organic announces seed genetics partnership with Rutgers University, deploys precision AI technology to boost plant resource use efficiency

  Date：Jan. 13, 2022 Category：Companies

  Soli Organic Inc.

  Soli Organic Inc. announced two partnerships that will enhance the Company's cost advantage, further improve unit economics, and support the continued developme...

  Tags:CollaborationBiotech

• Bowery Farming secures $150 million credit facility led by KKR to accelerate growth

  Date：Jan. 13, 2022 Category：Companies

  Bowery Farming Inc.

  ​Bowery Farming, the largest vertical farming company in the United States, announced it has secured a $150 million credit facility led by private credit accou...

  Tags:Investment & Expansion

• Perdue AgriBusiness and Missouri Soybeans announce first organic high oleic Soyleic^® soybean contracting program

  Date：Jan. 13, 2022 Category：Companies

  Perdue AgriBusiness

  Perdue AgriBusiness, a leading U.S. agriculture products and services company, in partnership with the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council, announced plans t...

  Tags:Organic AgricultureSoybean

• Biotalys and Olon enter into long-term partnership for the production of protein-based biocontrols

  Date：Jan. 13, 2022 Category：Companies

  Biotalys (formerly AgroSavfe)

  ​Biotalys, an Agricultural Technology company protecting crops and food with protein-based biocontrol solutions, and Olon, a world-leading contract development...

  Tags:Collaboration