Pests&Diseases

• Corn stunt disease catches Argentina by surprise

  Apr. 18, 2024

  # Latin America Focus #
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  The Durian Industry in Southeast Asia is Threatened by Phytophthora

  Apr. 16, 2024

  Pilarquim (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

  # Fungicides & Bactericides #
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  Incidence of Anthonomus grandis increased by 500% in Brazil

  Apr. 10, 2024

  FMC Química do Brasil

  # Latin America Focus #
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  Wet conditions increase potato soil pest threats

  Apr. 9, 2024

  Syngenta UK Limited
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  Successful surveillance results in early first detection of Ug99 in South Asia

  Apr. 8, 2024

  CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)
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  2Blades receives congressional funding to advance corn mycotoxin research

  Apr. 8, 2024

  2Blades Foundation

• Potato industry in Ireland entering new era of blight management

  Apr. 4, 2024

  # Science & Research #

• Mitigating menacing moth migration - The fall armyworm, a global pest since 2016, has defied borders with its widespread migration

  Apr. 3, 2024

• EU revisions to strengthen plant health law

  Apr. 3, 2024

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  USA - BASF launches SCNFields.com to raise awareness of soybean cyst nematode populations

  Mar. 28, 2024

  BASF Crop Protection USA

  # Soil Health ## Underground Pests & Nematicides #
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  First Phoma leaf spot resistance to azole fungicide found in Western Europe

  Mar. 28, 2024

  Rothamsted Research

  # Science & Research #

• Researcher uses automated imaging technology for fast detection of destructive soybean pest

  Mar. 22, 2024

  # Digital Agriculture ## Science & Research #
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  Australia - Barley grass stripe rust variants characterised by increased virulence

  Mar. 18, 2024

  Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)
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  FAO urges more cooperation in banana sector, significant for some least developed and low-income food-deficit countries and smallholder farmers

  Mar. 14, 2024

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

• Asia’s rice production hit by ‘very aggressive’ weedy varieties, with up to 80% of harvest loss

  Mar. 12, 2024

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  ​Getting to the roots of black-grass’s waterlogging tolerance

  Mar. 6, 2024

  Rothamsted Research

  # Science & Research #

• New species of pest identified in Brazilian coffee

  Mar. 1, 2024

  # Latin America Focus #
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  Study links climate change with wheat blast; warns crop yield could drop by 75% in South America, Africa by 2050

  Feb. 26, 2024

  CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)

  # Latin America Focus ## Science & Research #
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  United Kingdom - New trials network aims to reveal true impact of BYDV on wheat

  Feb. 19, 2024

  RAGT Seeds UK
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  High pressure from Euschistus Heros can cause losses of BRL 12 billion, warns UPL

  Feb. 19, 2024

  UPL Brasil

  # Latin America Focus #
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  2Blades delivers on project with Bayer Crop Science in an effort to combat Asian soybean rust

  Feb. 16, 2024

  2Blades Foundation
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  United Kingdom - New data shows severity of brome concern for wheat growers

  Feb. 6, 2024

  Corteva Agriscience UK Limited
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  Climate puts pressure on caterpillars in Brazilian soybean crop 2023/2024

  Feb. 2, 2024

  UPL Brasil

  # Latin America Focus #
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  Invaio Sciences and Louis Dreyfus Company collaborate on sustainable citrus groves for the future

  Jan. 30, 2024

  Invaio Sciences

  # Latin America Focus #
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  Bemisia tabaci pressure on soybeans expected to increase this crop season, warns expert

  Jan. 26, 2024

  UPL Brasil

  # Latin America Focus #
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  Rusts in winter wheat: UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey (UKCPVS) update and new AHDB watch lists

  Jan. 26, 2024

  Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB)
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  GRDC announces major investments to combat Septoria tritici blotch in wheat

  Jan. 19, 2024

  Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

  # Science & Research #
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  Agdia commercializes rapid molecular test kit for gray mold pathogen Botrytis Cinerea

  Jan. 11, 2024

  Agdia

• Satellites and AI could help farmers detect soybean aphid infestations

  Jan. 10, 2024

  # Digital Agriculture ## Science & Research #

• Full steam ahead: Warm vapor and a low-dose herbicide control harmful citrus weed

  Jan. 1, 2024

  # Science & Research #