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Headlines from August 2017 |
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Dow and DuPont have successfully completed their merger, effective 31
August
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Syngenta has received US EPA registration for Force Evo (tefluthrin)
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AMVAC Mexico has completed the acquisition of certain selective
herbicides and contact fungicides sold in the Mexican agricultural
market from Syngenta
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BASF has submitted the regulatory dossier for its fungicide active
Revysol (mefentrifluconazole) to registration authorities in the
US, Canada and Mexico
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Stockton
(STK), has received registration in Spain for its biofungicide
Timorex Gold
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A survey carried out by the University of Missouri has shown that by
mid-August dicamba complaints had been recorded in 21 US states and as
far north as North Dakota
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Enigma
Marketing Research
has
launched a database which identifies Supplementary Protection
Certificates (SPCs) for agrochemicals
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Monsanto and Valent USA have expanded their Roundup Ready Plus
Crop Management Solutions platform for 2018
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Stockton has signed a commercialisation and distribution
agreement with Syngenta for Timorex Gold to be used in
edible crops in Australia and New Zealand
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Sales of
crop protection products in Germany in 2016 at wholesale level
dropped by 11.1% to €1,415 million
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Platform Specialty Products has announced its intention to separate
its Agricultural Solutions and Performance Solutions segments
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The
European Commission has announced that it has opened an in-depth
investigation to assess the proposed acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer
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Reuter has reported that the US-based Albaugh is exploring a sale that
could value the company at more than $1.5 billion including debt
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Monsanto is offering its NemaStrike Technology (tioxafen) by
Acceleron Seed Applied Solutions in the US for 2018
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Adama has reported that its sales revenues grew by 2.8% in the second
quarter 2017 and by 0.7% in the half year period compared to 2016
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The
European Commission has initiated plans to hold an extraordinary
meeting in late September following reports that eggs from The
Netherlands have been contaminated with the insecticide fipronil
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The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
is funding an initial four-year research project to breed blast
resistant wheat varieties
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CABI has reported that fall armyworm has been confirmed in 28 African
countries, following the pest’s arrival in Africa in 2016
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DuPont Crop Protection has introduced the herbicide EverpreX
(S-metolachlor) in the US
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Dow
AgroSciences has received approval in Ireland for its new insecticide
based on Isoclast active
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Headlines from July 2017 |
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Koppert sells Trianum, new
biofungicide, in Spain
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BASF
reports that its Agricultural Solutions segment sales in Q2 increased
by 5% to €1.5 billion
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DuPont
Pioneer and Evogene Ltd have entered into a multiyear collaboration
that includes the research and development of microbiome-based seed
treatments in corn
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DuPont’s
agriculture sales increased 5% in Q2
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Bayer AG’s CEO Werner Baumann expects the company’s $66 billion
combination with Monsanto to close by the end of the year
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Arysta
LifeScience has introduced a new systemic fungicide based on
fluoxastrobin in its Kenyan and Tanzanian markets
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BASF and
Kaiima Bio-Agritech are collaborating on the discovery of novel
herbicide resistance traits
Syngenta
has reported that sales for the first half of 2017 were down 2% at
constant exchange rates to $6.9 billion
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Coffee
growers in parts of Brazil are having to deal with the worst beetle
infestation in recent memory due to a ban on endosulfan
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Bayer and
Rothamsted Research, UK, have entered into an agreement to improve
collaborations that will support the development of more
customised agronomic solutions
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Second-quarter sales of Bayer’s agricultural business (Crop Science)
fell by 15.8% (Fx & portfolio adj) to €2,163 million)
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Dow
Agricultural Sciences has reported second quarter sales of $1.6
billion, up 3% year-over-year
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American
Vanguard Corporation reports revenue increases of 7% for the second
quarter and 4% for the first half of the year
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FMC
Agricultural Solutions reported second quarter revenue of $583 million
and segment earnings of $96 million.
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Marrone
Bio Innovations (MBI) has shipped its biofungicide, Reysana, to
Morocco
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Dow
AgroSciences is to divest a portion of its corn seed business in
Brazil for $1.1 billion
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Research
scientists at Australia's CSIRO have successfully mapped the complete
genome of the economically important pests, cotton bollworm and corn
earworm
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Gowan
Crop Protection has acquired Agrotechnology (AGT) in Chile
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Headlines from June 2017 |
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Dow
AgroSciences UK expects that its cereal fungicide Inatreq will
receive active substance approval in 2018 for first use in 2019-2020
Luxembourg’s parliament has voted unanimously in favour of a
resolution which calls for a ban on cultivating GM maize
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Adama Agricultural Solutions has announced the acquisition of a number
of crop protection products in the US from Syngenta
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A jury has ordered Syngenta to pay
$217.7million in compensatory damages to Kansas farmers over its
decision to sell GM corn not approved in China
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Monsanto and Atomwise have formed a research collaboration
to increase the speed and probability of discovering new crop
protection products using artificial intelligence
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The US EPA has recently registered four products containing an
innovative plant-incorporated protectant (PIP) called Smartstax Pro
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Evogene has advanced a number of insect control traits
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The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture has announced that it is permitting
the importation of 16 varieties of GM crops from mid-June 2017 onwards
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Experts
from the EU member states have approved a proposed list of criteria to
identify endocrine disruptors in plant protection products
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A recent
survey commissioned by environmental groups and conducted by market
researchers GFS Zurich, shows strong support for cuts in pesticide use
in Switzerland
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Dow AgoSciences will launch Enlist corn in the US and Canada
for 2018. This follows the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture's
decision to approve the import of grain produced from corn containing
the Enlist trait
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Bayer and Sumitomo Chemical Company have reached a new agreement on
fungicidal mixture products in Brazil
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The
newly elected French government will not repeal a ban on the
neonicotinoids
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Syngenta has registered its insecticide Cruiser 600 FS
for seed treatment use in Brazil
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Eden Research recently announced that it has agreed new terms covering
its terpene licence agreement with UMMS
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Bayer AgroSciences
expects negative earnings for 2017 from its business in Brazil
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Adama Agricultural Solutions and RiceTec have entered into a global
collaboration aiming to deliver new rice hybrids and weed control
solutions to farmers worldwide
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DLF
Seeds is acquiring Syngenta’s global sugar beet seeds business
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Headlines from May 2017 |
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Agri-Star and Marrone Bio Innovations sign exclusive distribution
agreement to distribute
Grandevo
and
Venerate
bioinsecticides for
Mexico
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Syngenta has announced the name of its new herbicide containing S-metolachlor
and dicamba. The product will be marketed as Tavium plus
VaporGrip Technology
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Arysta LifeScience
has introduced new biostimulant and seed treatment products for
the UK and Irish markets
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Reports suggest
that the European Commission is discussing with member states
the possible renewal of glyphosate for a 10 year period rather than
the normal 15 years
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Vive
Crop Protection and SipcamRotam have recently entered a partnership to
bring to market new products containing Vive’s Allosperse
Delivery System
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Syngenta’s insecticide seed treatment Fortenza has
received registration from the US EPA for use on corn and cotton
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Nufarm
has announced the launch of a systemic insecticide seed treatment
Maestro FS in Brazil.
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FMC has registered the microbiological
nematicide Presence (Bacillus subtilis + Bacillus
licheniformis) in Brazil
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The
Climate Corporation has integrated the aerial imagery technology of
its partners Ceres Imaging, TerrAvion and Agribotix into its
Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform
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Adama's sales revenue was down by 0.6% in constant currency terms in
the first quarter of 2017
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The
Colorado Wheat Research Foundation (CWRF), Albaugh LLC, North America
and wheat breeder Limagrain Cereal Seeds have collaborated to create
the herbicide-tolerant CoAxium Wheat Production System
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Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) has entered into a distribution
agreement with Jet Harvest Solutions for the product Jet-Ag
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AMVAC
Chemical Corporation has completed the acquisition of three crop
protection product lines from Adama
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The UK's AHDB
Horticulture has launched SCEPTREplus, a new £1.4 million
four-year programme of crop protection product trials targeting
high-priority diseases, pests and weeds
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Headlines from April 2017 |
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China National Chemical Corporation has won enough support from
Syngenta shareholders to clinch the takeover of the Swiss company
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Belchim
Crop Protection has agreed to acquire the American agrochemical
company Engage Agro USA
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The new US EPA administrator, has signed an order denying a
petition that sought to ban Dow’s insecticide chlorpyrifos in the US
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Summit Agro USA has launched the fungicide Prolivo 300SC
for use in grapes
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Sales by Bayer’s agriculture business increased by 3.2% (Fx &
portfolio adj) to €3,120 million during the first quarter
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KNE Certis
has taken over responsibility for the exclusive distribution of certain
Nufarm products in Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Albania for a five year
period
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After a re-evaluation Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency
is granting continued registration of products containing glyphosate for
sale and use in Canada
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Du Pont’s first quarter net sales for its Agriculture segment increased
by 4% to $3,928 million
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Syngenta
is launching a new generation cereal seed treatment Vibrance Duo
in the UK for use in autumn 2017
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Bayer has agreed to sell its Liberty herbicide and LibertyLink-branded
seeds businesses to win antitrust approval for its acquisition of
Monsanto
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BASF’s Agricultural Solutions segment reported a 4.2% year-on-year
increase in sales to €1,855 million in the first quarter
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EFSA found 97% of food
samples collected in 2015 were within legal limits
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Dow
Agrosciences reported first quarter sales of $1.6 billion, down 5%
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Monsanto has received US EPA approval for its nematicide NemaStrike
Technology
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Syngenta group sales of $3.7 billion were 1% lower compared with the
first quarter of 2016
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Isagro USA is expanding its bio-solutions portfolio BASF has signed an
agreement to acquire ZedX a leader in the development of digital
agricultural intelligence
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The John
Innes Centre, Norwich, the UK’s leading plant science and food
research institute has been awarded £77.9 million in a series of new
strategic programme investments by the UK's BBSRC
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Belchim
Crop Protection is expanding its agrochemical business in Germany by
acquiring a 100% shareholding in Proagro
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Headlines from March 2017 |
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FMC
will acquire part of DuPont's Crop Protection business that it must
divest to comply with the European Commission ruling related to its
merger with Dow Chemical Company
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Summit Agro International has acquired from BASF the right to market
the active ingredient chloridazon in Japan
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MBI
will advance novel bacteria and related proteins from Evogene into its
bioinsecticide product development pipeline
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FMC
has launched Quetzo, a biological product for the
control of nematodes on several crops in Brazil
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Australian grain growers are being advised to implement effective
integrated disease management strategies following the discovery of
resistance to strobilurin fungicides in wheat powdery mildew
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Adama
has reported that sales revenues increased by 3.2% in 2016
Bayer’s biological
nematicide BioAct Prime DC has been granted regulatory approval
in Greece
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Eden Research has
received a Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) from the Patent
Office in Greece for 3AEY
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ChemChina has won conditional EU antitrust approval for its $43
billion bid for Syngenta
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BASF
has invested more than $270 million in diamba production
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The ECHA Committee
for Risk Assessment (RAC) says glyphosate is not carcinogenic
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Syngenta Canada has launched a fungicide Aprovia Top for
use on potatoes
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Nichino America is to market pyraclonil in the US
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Canada-based
Premier Tech is to take the lead on bioherbicide development
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Monsanto’s net sales for its Q2
increased to approximately $5.1 billion and for the first six months
increased to $7.7 billion
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Dow AgroSciences
has launched a new cereal herbicide Zypar for UK growers
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BASF has launched
Enervin Top fungicide in Spain for the control of downy mildew
in vineyards
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ChemChina has received US antitrust approval fo its acquisition of
Syngenta on the condition that it divests the generic production of
paraquat, abamectin and chlorothalonil
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Headlines from February 2017 |
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MEPs
have adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission to
fast-track the registration of low risk pesticides
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The US EPA has approved Syngenta’s insecticide Minecto Pro for
use in speciality and vegetable crops
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Syngenta reported sales of $12.8 billion in 2016, 2% lower at constant
exchange than in 2015
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RiceTec and Adama have announced
they are collaborating on the development of new herbicide tolerance
systems for rice
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Nufarm America has received registration for its herbicide Panther
Pro for broad spectrum weed control in soybean
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The Competition Bureau, the Canadian antitrust watchdog, has ruled
that Canada’s farmers are not likely to see less competition if
ChemChina buys Syngenta
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Summit Agro has negotiated with Bayer the right to manufacture and
distribute the fungicide metominostrobin in all markets worldwide
including Japan
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Wheat blast, a devastating fungal disease that appeared in South Asia
for the first time in 2016, was the focus of a surveillance workshop
in Bangladesh
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The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA)
proposes to approve a Crusader herbicide that contains a new active
constituent from Dow Agrosciences
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Exosect
has announced the development of a sprayable formulation of a systemic
herbicide based on the company’s Entostat technology
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DuPont and Dow Chemical are on track to win EU approval for their $74
billion tie-up after tweaking concessions to allay antitrust
concerns
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BASF's full year sales for 2016 fell by 4% to $5.9 billion as a result
of lower sales volumes and negative currency effects
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Arysta LifeScience says it has increased the value of its research and
development pipeline with the addition of seven active substances
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Stockton has signed a long term non-exclusive distribution agreement
for Timorex Gold with Chongqing Shurong Crop Science in
China
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New market report
projects biopesticides market will reach $7.7 billion by 2021
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Trana Discovery has announced a collaboration agreement with Bayer to
discover and validate new fungicides
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Bayer CropScience has posted sales of €9,915 million (Fx & portfolio
adj) for 2016 up just 0.1%.
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US EPA has approved DuPont's Fexapan dicamba herbicide
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SipcamRotam is launching two new mesotrione-based premixes into the US
corn market
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Adama has received full US EPA approval for its new insecticide
Cormoran
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Mitsui
Chemicals Agro has acquired a 10% shareholding position in Belchim
Crop Protection
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Headlines from January 2017 |
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Mitsui &
Co has acquired all the assets related to Monsanto’s Latitude business
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Monsanto has begun marketing its third generation genetically modified
cotton product Bollgard 3
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Nufarm is to be the exclusive distributor for MBI’s bioinsecticide
Grandevo in Australia and New Zealand
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The Climate Corporation has unveiled more than 35 projects in
its research and development pipeline
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The fall armyworm moth is threatening crops in West Africa
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BASF is entering the Indian crop protection market for rice with a
range of new solutions
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Dow Agrosciences has reported fourth quarter sales of $1.7 billion, up
from $1.6 billion
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Syngenta is to launch
new SDHI ceeral fungicide in Ireland
MarketsandMarkets has produced a recent report that updates
developments in the global dicamba market
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DuPont has indicated recently that its $130 billion merger with Dow
Chemical will take longer to wrap up than previously expected as the
companies await regulatory approvals
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Eden Research has received
authorisation in France for its first product, 3AEY, for use on table
and wine grapes
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A new biopesticide developed in Israel is showing
promise for the control of the root-knot nematode
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The Indian government has announced its intention to
ban the use of 18 pesticides
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Adama Agricultural Solutions is partnering with AgroWebLab to
introduce innovative decision support systems
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Monsanto and the US-based 2Blades Foundation are collaborating
to discover novel sources of genetic resistance to corn diseases
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Isagro USA has signed an agreement to exclusively distribute BioAg
Alliance’s biofungicide Taegro 2 in the US and Canada
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The UK’s
Rothamsted Research has been granted permission by Defra to carry out
a field trial with GM wheat plants
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EFSA has
delayed publication of its updated assessment of three neonicotinoid
pesticides
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Rothamsted Research, UK has launched an innovative crop protection
network comprising a website and phone apps
Syngenta’s cereal herbicide Talinor has received federal
registration from the US EPA
Rotam CropSciences, has announced that its Korean operations will
become a wholly owned company directly servicing dealers
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Syngenta and DuPont Crop Protection have published a joint patent
focused on the development of a new herbicide chemistry class
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A genome study of whitefly has been carried out by an international team
of researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute
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CIMMYT is collaborating with 2Blades Foundation to offer resistance to
wheat rust
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The
New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) has approved Timorex
Gold for use in grape against powdery mildew
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The EU
Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed met in December to
vote on proposed endocrine disruptors criteria but no agreement
was reached
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Adama Agricultural Solutions is expanding its collaboration with
SwarmFarm Robotics globally
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Eastman is to develop and market Eden's
nematicide
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Researchers at the James Hutton Institute have announced new risk
criteria for potato blight that are named after the institute
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Argentine soybean farmers and the companies that sell them GM seeds
could be close to a breakthrough in negotiations over royalty payments
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Monsanto has been granted a worldwide non-exclusive license by Broad
Institute of MIT and Harvard for the use of the novel CRISPR-Cpf1
genome editing technology in agriculture
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Glyphosate study projects $8.8 billion sales by the end of 2019
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Biobest, a global player in pollination and
biological pest control, has acquired Real IPM
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded AgBiome a multi-year
grant
A USDA
report has recorded that over 136,000 hectares of GM corn were planted
in the EU in 2016
The US EPA has approved BASF’s dicamba herbicide Engenia
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Syngenta's
Orondis Opti fungicide is to be sold as a premix
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The US EPA has recently approved DuPont’s fungicide seed treatment
Lumisena for soybeans and sunflowers
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Headlines from November 2016 |
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The European Parliament passes a resolution calling for the re-authorisation
for bentazone to be cancelled
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Bayer has launched the nematicide Velum Prime in Canada
Bayer UK
has launched a new wheat flag leaf fungicide Ascra Xpro
The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, has
announced the acquisition of VitalFields
Adama has reported that its sales increased by 6.5% in the third
quarter, in US dollar terms, with growth across all regions
The first variety of transgenic sugar cane being developed by Brazi’s
Cane Technology Center (CTC), is scheduled for launch on a commercial
scale in 2018
ECPA
appoints new president
US scientists
have isolated and cloned a gene that provides resistance to Fusarium
head blight
SynTech has announced a merger with CAC SMART based in Santiago, Chile
EFSA has
launches a multi-year project that will look at the risks to
humans and the environment from exposure to multiple chemicals in the
food chain
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Miravis Duo,
a combination of Adepidyn and difenoconazole, has been recently
approved by SENASA, the regulatory authority in Argentina
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Syngenta’s fungicide Solatenol is expected to receive
approval in the UK in the early part of 2017
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Biocontrol Technologies, has appointed Biobest as its exclusive
distributor for the ‘Trichoderma asperellum T34 in
Belgium, The Netherlands and France
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Sumitomo Chemical has opened its first research and development base
in Latin America
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Syngenta has announced that products based on its new fungicide active
ingredient Adepidyn will be branded as Miravis
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BASF and FMC have established an agreement that will bring novel
in-furrow crop protection products to the US corn market
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MBI has received registration for a biofumigant, from the US EPA
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US EPA has approved Monsanto's XtendiMax with VaporGrip
Technology, a low-volatility dicamba herbicide
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Bioline
AgroSciences has agreed to acquire the product Certirol,
relevant intellectual property (IP) and manufacturing rights from
Certis Europe
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Purdue University and Sumitomo Chemical are to expand the scope of
their existing joint research
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Bayer and FaunaPhotonics have entered into a three-year research
cooperation to develop new sensor solutions
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Headlines from October 2016 |
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Bayer to expand its biological capability by
investing
€16 million
in Germany
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Dow AgroSciences UK moves to new headquarters in Cambridge
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UK scientists share their research at New Frontiers in Crop
Research conference
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Incotec invests $4 million in its North American business
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Monsanto opens new greenhouse complex in the US
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Bayer and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) sign
research agreement
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US EPA postpones glyphosate scientific review meeting
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Vive Crop Protection raises financing for commercial expansion in
2017
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AMVAc sales up by 13.8% in third quarter of 2016
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Sulfoxaflor registered on US crops unattractive to pollinators
- Syngenta sales are down 3% at constant
exchange rate in third quarter of 2016
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Eurpean Commission wishes to forbid use of
pesticides in ecological focus areas (EFAs)
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New UK laboratory to develop novel fungicides
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FMC to register bixafen in North America
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Nufarm to focus on seed treatment portfolio
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Scientists show that RNA sprays could control
barley disease
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BASF launches new soybean herbicide in the US
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The organic sector experiences a prolonged
period of growth
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Bayer CropScience sales decline 1.2% in the
third quarter of 2016
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FMC sets up new distributor network in Argentina
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High yield and resistance to Septoria are
incompatible say scientists at the John Innes Institute
- BASF to invest in its biological crop
protection business in Australia
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Syngenta opens its first production unit in Latin America for the
pepite (WDG) formulation of Elatus
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Koppert is
acquiring Lantmännen BioAgri’s microbial products, registrations and
intellectual property
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Syngenta
has announced the completion of three capacity expansion projects at
key sites in Brazil and Switzerland
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Phyllom
BioProducts and Vestaron are to extend their research collaboration
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Bayer
CropScience has decided to drop any further attempts to challenge the
cancellation of its registration for the insecticide flubendiamide in
the US
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Nufarm’s
crop protection business grew by 3% to $2.65 billion in 2016
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BASF has recently
opened a new Application Technology Centre at its Crop Protection
division headquarters in Germany
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Brazilian research service Embrapa has announced that it has found a
wild soybean variety that is resistant to soybean rust
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Bayer
India has recently inaugurated a new Global Formulation Technology
Laboratory at its production site in Vapi, India
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BASF
is planning to release a new dicamba formulation in the US later this
year that will help prevent drift and crop damage
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Jean-Philippe
Azoulay, previously with Dupont, and a former president of the
European Crop Protection Association (ECPA), has taken over as
director general of the association
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De Sangosse has
acquired a majority stake in the Spanish company Servalesa
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Bayer
and Monsanto have signed a definitive merger agreement that enables
Bayer to acquire Monsanto for $128 per share in an all-cash
transaction
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Agrisure 3120 E-Z Refuge,
Syngenta's new trait stack for corn has received approval from the US
EPA
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Syngenta has opened a new Seedcare Institute in Stanton, Minnesota
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Monsanto
and Dow AgroSciences have reached a non-exclusive global option and
licensing agreement on Dow's Exact Precision Technology
Platform
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DuPont
Pioneer and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)
have entered into an agreement to jointly develop improved crops using
CRISPR-Cas plant breeding technology
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Certis
USA has introduced Carb-O-Nator, a broad spectrum foliar
fungicide
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Monsanto reports net sales down for 2016
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The US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has concluded that based on
currently available data glyphosate is ‘not likely to be carcinogenic
to humans’
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Syngenta
has appointed Jeff Rowe to the new role of president Global Seeds and
North America
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Adama
Agricultural Solutions has announced that the framework for its
combination with Sanonda, a leading Chinese agrochemical producer, has
been submitted to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange
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Helm has
transferred its sales of plant protection products in Germany to
Belchim Crop Protection
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Gowan
has opened a new office at Rothamsted Research in the UK to manage its
growing business
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Vestaron has
signed a multi-year manufacturing agreement with Capua Bioservices
for the production of the Spear
family
of products
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DuPont is to introduce a new insecticide Pyraxalt in
China
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Bayer’s new, safened dicamba premix DiFlexx Duo has been
approved by the US EPA as a corn herbicide
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Valent USA has received US EPA registration for Zeal SC,
a miticide for soybeans
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Syngenta Seedcare has recently launched two new online tools to
support its fungicide seed treatment Vibrance
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The
Glyphosate Task Force (GTF) is facilitating public access to 71
proprietary toxicological studies
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Certis
Europe’s fungicide Takumi SC has been granted an
‘Extension of Authorisation for Minor Use’ (EAMU) to allow
applications to be made on strawberry crops in the UK
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Adama has reported sales growth in the first half of 2016 of 3.5% at
constant exchange rates
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Certis
Europe and K&N Efthymiadis have created a joint venture which will
market and distribute of crop protection products in south eastern
Europe
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Bayer CropScience plans to introduce a second-generation version of
its insecticidal/nematicidal seed treatment, Poncho/Votivo
in the US in time for the 2019 planting season
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Albaugh and MBI have signed an exclusive agreement to develop and
market one of MBI’s microbial products for seed treatment
applications
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Albaugh
is to invest $300 million to expand its operations in Brazil
Bayer
CropScience has launched a new herbicide for black-grass control
in the UK
Exosect
Ltd has made a breakthrough in the systemic delivery of
acetamiprid, a neonicotinoid that exhibits very low toxicity to bees
Since
late July a total of four GM soybean crops have been cleared by the
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
India’s top seed and seed technology companies have launched a new
industry body, the Federation of Seed Industry of India (FSII)
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Headlines from July 2016 |
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Exosect
has been awarded funding to develop a novel formulation of an insect
virus as a biopesticide
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Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency has approved MBI's
biofungicide Regalia Rx for use on wheat and soybean in Canada
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Indian crop protection market will grow at 7.5% per annum to reach
$6.3 billion by 2019-20
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AMVAC joined with Chinese-based Huifeng Agrochemical Company to form
an R&D focused joint venture in Hong Kong
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Adama Agricultural Solutions has reported that its merger with Chinese
company Sanonda could be completed in the first half of 2017
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Spain is
seeking European funding to deal with a contamination problem caused
by lindane
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Syngenta’s crop protection sales were down by 7% to $2,640 million in
the second quarter ended on 30 June, and seed business dropped by 11%
to 565 million
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USDA has confirmed the discovery by a farmer of genetically
modified wheat plants growing in an unplanted agricultural field
-
In the second quarter of 2016, Bayer CropScience posted sales of
€2,518 million, down 4.5% (Fx & portfolio adj +0.4%)
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Monsanto has now turned down a second improved acquisition offer from
Bayer
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AgBiome has been awarded a multi-year grant from the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation to discover biological insect control for smallholder
farmers in Africa
-
Bayer CropScience is to cease selling its insecticide flubendiamide in
the US
-
The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) has recently
funded a series of herbicide resistance surveys to be conducted in
Queensland, Australia
-
Dow AgroSciences’ new herbicide Quelex has been approved by the
US EPA
-
Indian agrochemical company Crystal Crop Protection has acquired the
fungicide brand Bavistin from BASF
-
BASF Agricultural Solutions segment’s sales decreased by 13.1% to
€1,459 million in the second quarter of 2016 year-on-year
-
MBI has received approval for the sale both of the company’s
bioinsecticides, Grandevo and Venerate in Mexico
-
The
European Commission (EC) has commenced talks with member states with
the objective of authorising two new GM maize crops for cultivation in
the EU
-
Eurofins
Agroscience Services (EAS) acquires UK-based NDSM Limited
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The
European Commission (EC) has published the proposed criteria for the
definition of an endocrine disruptor
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Eden
Research has together with its commercialisation partners i been
granted label extensions for the use of 3AEY in Spain and
Greece
-
US-based Precision Laboratories has announced the launch of Intact
Xtra, an adjuvant designed to maximise activity of glyphosate and
dicamba-based herbicides
-
Monsanto’s third-quarter profit fell sharply from a year ago, impacted
by lower corn and soybean seed and crop protection sales
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The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) in Canada has granted
approval for registration of DuPont’s insecticide seed treatment
Lumivia
-
Gowan has
launched a new fungicide for potato blight control in the UK
-
The
European Commission extend the EU glyphosate license for 18 months
-
Bayer has
developed a new cap seal to protect users against counterfeit crop
protection products
-
SynTech Research has acquired the field and laboratory GLP (Good
Laboratory Practice) residue study functions of Syngenta Protecão de
Cultivos LTDA in Brazil
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Syngenta’s Defy 3D Nozzle has won an international sprayer award
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Syngenta to market Stocktons biofungicide technology
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UK
agrochemical company Redag Crop Protection doubles the size of its
team after successfully raising funds of $2 million
-
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) and Groundwork BioAg (GBA) have
announced a collaboration to create the world’s first all-biological
comprehensive seed treatment
-
Monsanto has obtained rights to apply Nomad’s proprietary technology
to its genome-editing projects aimed at the enhancement of
agricultural crops
-
Monsanto and Sumitomo Chemical have a new global agreement that will
focus on developing next-generation weed control solutions
-
Bayer has opened a new wheat plant breeding station in Canada
-
Monsanto and Argentina have reached an agreement for the
collection of royalties for genetically modified soybeans, ending
years of dispute
-
Monsanto
and DuPont have announced a multi-year dicamba supply agreement for
the US and Canada
-
Dow
AgroSciences has collaborated with the University of Warwick, UK to
discover the unique attributes of synthetic auxin herbicide
-
US-based
Brandt, a leading agriculture retailer and manufacturer of speciality
agriculture products, has acquired the assets of Tratamientos
Guadalquivir (Tragusa) in Spain
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Bayer makes $62 billon offer to acquire
Monsanto
Arysta to move global HQ to Research Triangle
Park
Monsanto announces investment in its US
research facility in Chesterfield, Missouri
US study on GM crops dispels health and
environmental fears
Syngenta launches new seed treatment range
Epivo
Syngenta appoints new CEO
Evogen and MBI meet collaboration milestones
Adama's first quarter sales increase by 6.9%
SPM Developpement acquires Bayer's Garden business in Europe and
North America
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UK's Defra rejects emergency use of
neonicotinoids
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ECPA commissioned survey of European
consumers confirms lack of understanding of the need for increased
global food production
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EU rules for chemical use in organic farming
are amended
-
Koch secures rights to Regalia
products in US and Canada
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Monsanto to suspend soybean technologies in
Argentina
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US public interest groups urge US Department
of Justice to block Dow-DuPont merger
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US EPA registers BASF's herbicide Varisto
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Monsanto rejects Bayer's
offer as inadequate
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Monsanto to expand dicamba production
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United Phosphorus to establish new US production facility
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Bt trait shows promise for control of thrips in cotton
BASF submits US regulatory dossier for its
insecticide Inscalis
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New centre for crop health and protection launched in the UK
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UK farmers apply for emergency use of neonicotinoids on oilseed rape
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VBC cooperates with Rizobacter
- US EPA invites comment on dicamba use on
cotton and soybeans
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Valent USA to expand its bioassay screening
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Adama forms partnership with SwarmFarm Robotics
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AMVAC to establish new operation in Singapore
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Kynetec collaboration to establish tracking studies in Russia
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Belchim acquires minority stake in Engage Agro
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Bayer obtains new approvals for Infinito in Brazil
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BASF to set up new R&D centre in Germany
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Belchim buys French company Jade
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VBC relocates its research facility to Illinois, US
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Best Agro acquires Arysta manufacturing facility in India
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Stapyte acquires Peracto
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BASF submits regulatory dossier to EU for new triazole
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EU decision on glyphosate re-approval is delayed
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FRAC assigns Fracture to new fungicide group
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MBI to distribute Isagro's biofungicide
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US opposition to Syngenta-ChemChina deal grows
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Biocomes undercovers new biocontrol products
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Valent to develop Lidochem's biocontrol technology
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Nufarm reports flat sales for first half of 2016
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Arysta accesses protein technology from China
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BASF launches a
new online crop management platform
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Syngenta launches new foliar fungicide Trivapro in Canada
Certis USA appoints UAP Canada to distribute
biofungicide
US EPA moves to cancel Bayer's flubendiamide
registration
US researchers are developing
herbicide-tolerant wheat
France prepares to introduce full ban on
neonicotinoids
EU criteria for endocrine disruptors to be
announced during summer 2016
MBI appoints former US Deputy Secretary of
Agriculture to its board of directors
Syngenta names its newest corn herbicide
Force Evo
Mexico allows cultivation of GM corn for
testing purposes
Adama
licenses StarPharma's dendrimer technology
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from February 2016 |
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The
yellow rust race Kranich has been detected in the UK for the first
time in winter wheat
-
Rotam North America and SipcamAdvan have entered into a joint venture
as SipcamRotam
-
Bayer opens its West Sacramento greenhouse site that will support the
CropScience division’s growing Biologics and Vegetable Seeds
businesses
-
BASF is adding two new fungicide products to its AgCelence
portfolio
-
GRDC has appointed de Bruin Engineering as an exclusive Australian
licensee to develop and commercialise its integrated weed seed
destruction (IWSD) technology
-
BioProtection Global (BPG) is the new name that has been adopted by
the federation of the world's leading Biocontrol and Biopesticide
Associations
-
Bayer
submits license application for GM cotton in Australia
-
French
company InVivo acquires Syngenta’s subsidiary Bioline
-
Dow AgroSciences and US-based Radiant Genomics have expanded
their research agreement
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THE UK's
East Malling Research (EMR) has become part of the NIAB (National
Institute of Agricultural Botany) group
-
DuPont and Dow have announced the US structure for the global
agricultural business they intend to create
-
Bayer encourages researchers to take part in its Grant4Target
initiative
-
Adama Agricultural Solutions has appointed Walter Costa to its
management team as vice president for marketing and product strategy
-
BASF has introduced a new traceability technology Supply Chain Track
and Trace (SCTT) for its crop protection products filling lines
-
AMVAC has become an investor in Belgium-based Biological Products for
Agriculture
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New
pesticide guidance has been finalised for the OECD that harmonises the
way terrestrial field dissipation studies are conducted in
different regions of the world
- Bayer acquires
digital farming software
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Headlines
from January 2016 |
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State-owned ChemChina has bid $43 billion for Syngenta which its board
of directors has unanimously recommended to shareholders
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FMC is launching the insecticide Capture LFR together with
VGR Soil Amendment for in-furrow applications in corn
-
Syngenta is expanding its North America Seedcare Institute in Stanton,
Minnesota
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Global research collaboration identifies wheat disease-resistance gene
-
Dow AgroSciences has announced that its new weed control product in
rice will be called Loyant
-
MBI has announced the launch and commercial availability of a new
formulation of its Regalia biofungicide
-
The
European Ombudsman has ruled that future authorisation applications
for GM food and feed for import and processing must be dealt with
inside the statutory three month period
-
Dow AgroSciences reports fourth quarter sales in 2015 of $1.6 billion,
down from $1.9 billion in 2014
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Two
sugar beet varieties with a natural tolerance to herbicide that cannot
otherwise be used in the crop have been entered into official trials
in the UK
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Syngenta’s fungicide Solatenol has been approved by the
EU
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has announced that it has made its first
sales of the bionematicide Majestene
-
Valent BioSciences Corporation has reached an agreement with The
BioAg Alliance to distribute certain Actinovate products
-
Syngenta Canada has launched Orondis Ultra, a new fungicide for
the control of oomycete diseases
-
Monsanto's Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans have been approved by
China for import
-
Health Canada has announced that it intends to stop granting new
conditional registrations of pesticides
-
Syngenta has reported sales revenues of $13.4 billion in 2015 up by 1%
at constant exchange rates
-
Aldi
Süd,has become the first major European food retailer to prohibit
sales of fruit and vegetables that have been treated with
neonicotinoids
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BASF’s Systiva XS seed treatment fungicide will be available to
US sugar beet growers for the 2016 season
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from December 2015 |
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Dow and DuPont to merge
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Albaugh, is to open a new seed treatment technology centre in Memphis,
Tennessee
-
Vive
Crop Protection and Arysta LifeScience North America have entered into
an agreement that will to bring to market Vive’s patented technology
combined with Arysta’s key active ingredients
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Nimbus
and Monsanto reach second milestone in R&D collaboration
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Koppert Biological Systems
constructs a new R&D centre in Vicar, Spain
-
The
French Ministry of Agriculture has published the second version of its
National Action Plan which confirms the intention to cut pesticide use
nationally by 50% over the course of the next decade
-
Chinese
Research
scientists have identified five chemicals that trigger rice
plants to repel the white-backed planthopper
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European agencies have discovered
190 tonnes of illegal or
counterfeit pesticides
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Adama
Agricultural Solutions is to become the exclusive domestic sales
platform for ChemChina's formulated crop protection products in China
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Syngenta and
Mitsui invest in Phytech's Plantbeat service
-
Paine &
Partnerst has made a strategic investment in AgBiTech, a global leader
in biological pest control
-
Evogene
Ltd, has signed a herbicide development agreement with BASF
-
Nufarm’s new
horticultural fungicide Prolectus has received UK
registration
-
US
EPA has granted federal registration to the fungicide active
ingredients Solatenol and
oxathiapiprolin
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Prosecutors
halt authorised destruction of olive trees in Italy
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Headlines
from November 2015 |
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Croda
International has acquired the Incotec Group
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Adama Agricultural Solutions reports sales decreased 8.6% in the
third quarter of 2015
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FMC is launching an integrated in-furrow product for insect and
disease control in corn
-
Syngenta and DSM have entered an R&D partnership to develop microbials
-
Dow Chemical Co expects environmental safety concerns about its new
herbicide Enlist Duo to be resolved
-
The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the UK's
John Innes Centre (JIC), have signed a memorandum of understanding to
work on research that will address food security
-
Eden Research has received its first commercial order for its
biofungicide, 3AEY, in Kenya
-
Gowan Company is acquiring the entire global dinitroaniline (DNA)
herbicide portfolio from Dow AgroSciences
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Nutrichem is to purchase Dow AgroSciences’ oxyfluorfen herbicide
business
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EFSA says glyphosate is unlikely to be carcinogenic
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Agrovista UK has joined the EURO-A-PRO organisation
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Nufarm Limited is to close its manufacturing operations at Calgary in
Canada
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FAO launches updated
pesticide guidelines
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Monsanto and Novozymes have announced a 2025 acreage target that will
guide the companies’ microbials business
-
Arcadia Biosciences and Dow AgroSciences have announced a strategic
collaboration to develop and commercialise new yield traits and trait
stacks in corn
-
Plant Health Care and Arysta LifeScience have agreed to terminate the
agreement that allows Harpin
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protein technology to be combined with Arysta's crop protection
products in the US row crop market
-
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has
proposed approval for the new fungicide oxathiapiprolin
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from October 2015 |
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The chief executive of Syngenta, Mike Mack, has resigned and been
replaced by an interim CEO
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has received approval for its bionematicide in
the US
-
Bayer
CropScience says it has developed a seed treatment for wireworm
control in maize for the French and UK markets
-
BioConsortia has been granted a US patent for its Advanced Microbial
Selection (AMS) process
-
Arysta
LifeScience has announced several organisational changes that will
more fully integrate the French company Goëmar
-
Syngenta says that third quarter group sales, including Lawn and
Garden, were unchanged at constant exchange rates
-
FMC has announced that it will expand and accelerate the Cheminova
integration, reorganise the company's operations in Brazil, and
increase cost savings targets in order to reduce operating costs
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CEO of Platform Specialty Products announced his departure days after
a second profits warning
-
Monsanto is to close three research and development centres in the US
in 2016
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MEPs
have rejected the European Commission proposal on the regulation of GM
feed
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Personal injury law firms around the US are lining up plaintiffs for
actions against Monsanto regarding the use of glyphosate
-
Sales of Bayer’s CropScience business increased by 9.5% (Fx &
portfolio adj 1.6%) in the third quarter
-
Amvac has licensed imazaquin-based herbicide products from BASF for
use in the US
-
DuPont reports that sales revenue for its Agriculture segment was down
30% in the third quarter and 14% for the first nine months of 2015
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from September 2015 |
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Syngenta has revealed that its R&D pipeline includes nine new
active ingredients with combined peak sales potential of over $3.6
billion
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The Brazilian subsidiary of Albaugh has signed an agreement with
FMC Corporation to acquire Consagro
-
Eden Research has signed a collaboration and license agreement
with Intellectual Ventures
-
Bayer CropScience has invested €15 million in a state-of-the-art seed
processing centre in Monheim
-
Dow AgroSciences has given details about its plans to launch an
innovative new fungicide for cereal crops
-
Syngenta UK launches new fungicide for carrots
-
Monsanto and Albaugh have entered into a license agreement that allows
Albaugh to make and sell specific glyphosate formulations
-
Promip, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil has received registration for a new
biological product containing the wasp Trichogramm galloi
for the management of the sugar cane borer
-
LG Chem and CJ Cheiljedang are among several companies who have
submitted preliminary bids to buy Dongbu Farm Hannong
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Bayer CropScience is expanding its European Wheat Breeding Centre in
Saxony-Anhalt in Germany
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Syngenta has received US EPA approval for its fungicide Orondis
-
The US Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is making
proposals to strengthen oversight of GM wheat field trials
-
Monsanto has reported net sales of $15 billion (down 5%) for the
2015 full fiscal year
-
BASF is strengthening its biological solutions production
site at Littlehampton, UK
-
Nufarm has reported a 14.6% rise in full year net profit
-
Certis Europe sells its beneficials business in the UK, France
and Italy to Koppert
-
Nufarm has reported a rise in full year profit
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is funding investigations into
plant immunity in the US and Europe
Sumi Agro Europe and Sipcam have exchanged a further 10% shareholding
which increases the capital alliance between them to 20%
Beta Tech Hop Products has received US EPA approval for a new
biochemical miticide
-
CropLife International has released its Policy Perspective on
Endocrine Disruptors
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Terpenoid Blend QRD 460, the active ingredient in Bayer’s biofungicide
Requiem, has recently been approved by the European Commission
-
Scotland
to introduce a ban on all GM crops
-
Staphyt and Ambrosi Scientific Consulting have merged their registration
businesses
-
Bayer CropScience has opened a Seeds Innovation Centre in Lubbock,
Texas
-
Syngenta has received registration from the US EPA for benzovindiflupyr
-
Adama revenues, in constant currency terms, grew by 3.6% in the second
quarter of 2015 to $851.3
-
Dow AgroSciences has recently signed a collaboration agreement with
the Institute of Crop Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural
Sciences (ICS-CAAS) to develop rice products
-
Australian
researchers have unraveled the mystery cause of the emerging wheat
disease White Grain Disorder
-
BASF and Embrapa have launched the Cultivance Production
System in Brazil
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DuPont has received registration approval from the US EPA for the
fungicide Zorvec
-
Syngenta is expanding its North America Seedcare Institute in Stanton,
Minnesota
-
Sumitomo Chemical is to establish a crop protection research centre in
São Paulo, Brazil
-
Valent USA has received EPA registration fo its all-in-one formulation
of Integro Suite Soybeans
-
Adama is exploring a potential combination with Hubei Sanonda
-
Syngenta is to divest its flowers
seeds business from its Lawn and Garden operating unit
-
Bayer CropScience has expanded its Liberty production facilities
-
Cibus and Rotam have announced a new agreement to cooperate in
the development of herbicide-tolerant rapeseed in China
-
Intrexon is to acquire Oxitec Ltd
-
Monsanto's new takeover
offer to Syngenta was rejected and later withdrawn
-
Bayer CropScience has announced a licensing agreement with
Elemental Enzymes
-
Researchers in Flanders and The Netherlands have demonstrated that
gene stacking is necessary for a strong and lasting resistance to
Phytophthora blight
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Headlines
from July 2015 |
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Dow
AgroSciences is currently developing three herbicides to market in the
UK based on Arylex
-
Dow AgroScience's sales were down by 8.3% to $1.75 billion in the
second quarter
-
Certis
UK has launched two new herbicides containing a solo formulation of
flufenacet
-
UPL has acquired a 40% stake in the Brazilian company SinAgro
-
SynTech Research and New Jersey's Symbiotic Research have
announced an exclusive strategic alliance agreement
-
Sales by BASF Agricultural Solutions increased slightly by 0.7% to
€1,678 million in the second quarter of 2015
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SGS is investing to expand and strengthen the services and geographic
reach of its Brazilian operation
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The EU's
ENVI committee has rejected plans to allow member states to impose
their own bans on GM crop imports
Bayer CropScience has increased its second quarter sales by 10.2% to
€2,723 million
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Dow CEO Andrew Liveris has revealed that his company would be interested
in Syngenta’s seed business if Monsanto were to acquire the Swiss
company
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from June 2015 |
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Syngenta receives a second offer from Monsanto
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UK
researchers to develop yellow rust diagnostic tool
-
Syngenta Canada has introduced a new biological seed treatment
Clariva pn to help growers manage soybean cyst nematode
-
Pace
International has announced it will merge its Chile Business with
Valent BioSciences Chile
-
Canadian researchers identify soil borne bacterial strains that show
promise against late blight in potatoes
-
FMC adds Rhyme to its vine fungicide range in California and
Arizona
-
Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) and Harlan Laboratories have recently
announced that the combined company will be called Envigo
-
Adama Agricultural Solutions and Phytech have entered into a
commercial collaboration that establishes Adama as the preferred
business partner for the commercialisation of Phytech's
PlantBeat System
-
Nufarm has created two executive positions to reflect the growing
importance of its Nuseed business and the increased focus on
strengthening its product portfolio and marketing capabilities
-
Monsanto has reported that its net sales for the third quarter of
fiscal year 2015 increased over the prior year’s third quarter to $4.6
billion
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Eurofins
Agroscience Services (EAS) has acquired Trialcamp a Spanish contract
research organisation
-
AgBiome, and Genectiv have entered a strategic partnership to
accelerate the discovery of new generations of insect control traits
-
Bayer CropScience has announced it is joining forces with the
University of Western Australia (UWA) to combat herbicide resistant
annual ryegrass
-
The Chinese Hebang Group has acquired a 51% stake in the Israeli
Stockton Group
-
Monsanto has announced plans that could see a considerable investment
in a production facility for the herbicide dicamba at its St Charles
Parish operations in Luling, US
-
Dow AgroSciences has developed highly sensitive and specific molecular
forensic technology to ensure the integrity of its spinosyn
insecticide products
-
United Suppliers and Land O’Lakes have announced their intent to merge
their companies’ crop input businesses
-
The
Certis biofungicide Botanigard, based on the fungus
Beauveria bassiana, has been granted approval by the UK regulatory
authority CRD
-
Rotam Chile is expanding its market offer with the acquisition of 15
products registrations bought from a local company Mabruk
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Headlines
from May 2015 |
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The takeover talks between Monsanto and Syngenta that collapsed in May
2014 have resumed
-
The
first of the succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor (SDHI)-based fungicide
seed treatments for cereals is set to be launched next year in the UK
by Syngenta
-
Monsanto’s herbicide Warrant Ultra has been approved by the US
EPA
-
ADAMA Agricultural Solutions posted a decrease of 4.7% in sales
for the first quarter of 2015
-
Bayer CropScience is to acquire SeedWorks India
-
Nufarm
UK has secured distribution rights for the Sumitomo Chemical Company
range of crop protection products in the UK and Ireland
-
Bayer CropScience has entered a strategic innovation partnership with
US-based Flagship Ventures
-
Eden
Research has signed a new agreement with Sipcam to evaluate two new
products
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A new
sugar beet fungicide, Armure, has been introduced by Syngenta
in the UK
-
Crop spraying from a drone, has been approved by federal
authorities in the US
-
Monsanto has announced the six recipients who will be awarded research
grants as part of the Insect Management Knowledge Programme
-
BASF has opened a new agricultural research station in India
-
Nufarm has appointed Greg Hunt as its managing director and CEO
-
Monsanto and Scotts Miracle-Gro have extended their partnership in the
lawn and garden consumer market
-
Arysta
LifeScience has set up a new organisational structure in Europe
-
The UK’s
National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has submitted an emergency use
application to allow farmers to use neonicotinoid seed treatments in
rapeseed this autumn
-
Hungary
could be the first to introduce the new EU regulations allowing
countries to ban the cultivation of GM crops
-
AlphaBio
Control has just received funding of up to £225,000 from the UK
Government to discover natural products
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Headlines
from April 2015 |
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American Vanguard has acquired Adama's European Nemacur insecticide/nematicide
business assets
-
DuPont
has agreed to acquire Taxon Biosciences
-
UK
scientists are to develop a genetically modified potato free of fungal
diseases and other pest problems
-
Dow AgroSciences has reported first-quarter sales down 12% versus the
same period in 2015
-
Sales
of Bayer’s agriculture business Bayer increased by 6.6% in
the first quarter of 2015
-
The Dow Chemical Company is selling AgroFresh, its post-harvest
specialty chemical business
-
Dow AgroSciences, Arcadia Biosciences and Bioceres are to work
together to develop and commercialise innovative traits in soybeans.
-
The
bacterial disease Xylella fastidiosa is reported to be ravaging
olive groves in the southern Italian region of Lecce
-
Syngenta has received US EPA approval for its corn herbicide Acuron
-
Bayer CropScience and Farm Frites have started a
Food Chain Partnership initiative to implement sustainable
agricultural practices in potato cultivation
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The EU has announced plans to simplify the import approval process for
GM foods and animal feed, allowing member states to decide whether to
admit them or not
-
FMC has completed the closing of its acquisition of Cheminova
-
The US EPA has approved the herbicide Enlist Duo for use in
additional states
-
Rotam Global AgroSciences reports that its sales increased by
21% to in 2014
-
BASF'S first quarter sales in the company’s Agricultural Solutions
segment rose by 15%
-
Syngenta has reported that its first quarter group sales were
unchanged at constant exchange rates compared with the first quarter
of 2014
-
Engage
Agro will exclusively market and distribute Stockton's
Timorex Gold biofungicide in Canada for fruit, vegetable and
speciality crops
-
BASF is investing in new anti-fake technology in China
-
AMVAC has acquired the DuPont global Bromacil business assets
-
NEMguard,
the garlic extract-based product, has been granted emergency approval
in the UK for control of potato cyst nematodes and free-living
nematodes
|
Headlines
from March 2015 |
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Syngenta to sue Willowood over azoxystrobin
USDA to provide funds for research on citrus
greening disease
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EPA requires new bee data for neonicotinoids
-
Rotam expands its presence in Asia Pacific
-
Sumitomo Chemical to integrate its agchem and biorational activities
-
Scientists identify aggressive strain of potato blight in Spain
-
Syngenta to market Timorex Gold in Argentina
-
US EPA calls for comments on new restrictions proposed for Bt
corn
-
Syngenta names its newest fungicide
-
Dow to collaborate with CAAS in China
- Adama achieves record sales and EBITDA in
2014
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US EPA publishes proposals to combat the onset of resistance in
corn rootworm
-
BASF launches new rice fungicide in Indonesia
-
Nufarm plans for 5% market share in Europe by 2020
-
EFSA reports declining pesticide residue levels in EU food
-
Dow and Radiant Genomics announce R&D collaboration for discovery
of novel natural products
-
UK government calls for science-led approach to EU pesticide
regulations
-
New study delivers maps of insecticide run off into water courses
-
Bayer supports campaign to raise awareness of citrus greening
disease
-
Syngenta publishes update on its Good Growth Plan
|
Headlines
from February 2015 |
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Cheminova develops new herbicide based on pethoxamid
-
DuPont has received approval in the US for a new corn herbicide
-
FMC is launching a new broad spectrum biofungicide for use on
almonds, grapes, strawberries and tomatoes
-
Plant Impact signs soybean agreement with Bayer
-
American Vanguard's decline in sales will result in workforce
reductions
-
BASF to introduce 45 new products by 2019
-
Huntingdon and Harlan are to integrate under a new brand
-
Dow is reorganising its Europe, Middle East and Africa business
-
The Danish government has announced plans to double the area of
organic farmland by 2020
-
Exosect is granted patent for novel seed treatment for use on
oilseeds
Platform completes its acquisition of Arysta
- Syngenta hopes to maintain revenue growth
of 20% in India
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The CRO Syntech is expanding its facilities in Central Europe for
the 2015 season
-
BASF Agricultural Solutions grow by 4% in 2014
-
DuPont's fungicide picoxystrobin is recommended for approval in
Canada
-
Monanto to launch Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans
-
Bayer reports increased sales for 2014
-
Syngenta offers downy mildew tolerant sunflower seed
-
Bayer receives approval for its insecticide/nematicide combination
Velum Total
-
TKI acquires norflurazon from Syngenta
-
Dow announces brand name for new rice herbicide
-
Rotam has received registration for nicosulfuron in France
-
Irish researchers have used fungal endophytes to suppress disease
in barley
-
Sipcam and Nihon Nohyaku form alliance in Brazil
- Evogene introduces biology driven
platform for discovery of agrochemicals
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from January 2015 |
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Nufarm have appointed a new acting CEO after Doug Rathbone stepped
down from the role of managing director and CEO
-
New
legislation will allow EU member states to restrict or ban the
cultivation of crops containing GMOs on their own territory, even if
they are approved at EU level
-
French
government has delayed its target to halve pesticide use from 2018 to
2025
-
Dow AgroSciences has completed the acquisition of the Brazilian
company Coodetec’s seed business
-
The US Department of Agriculture has approved Monsanto’s dicamba-tolerant
trait technologies Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans and
Bollgard II XtendFlex cotton
-
Syngenta has reported that its sales in 2014 rose by 5% at constant
exchange rates
-
The
European Seed Association’s quality assurance scheme for seed
treatment and treated seed ESTA is expanding with the inclusion of the
Polish Seed Trade Association (PIN)
-
Colorado Wheat Research Foundation, Albaugh, and Group Limagrain have
announced their intention to create a collaboration to deliver
innovative solutions for cereals
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A new
potato stewardship group has been launched in the UK to help growers
with granular nematicide applications
-
Certis USA will distribute Kocide 3000 and ManKocide
exclusively in the US
-
FMC Corporation has acquired all the global rights to a novel,
proprietary herbicide from Kumiai and Ihara
-
Dow AgroSciences has set quality standards for glyphosate trait
stacking with Enlist
-
The FAO is calling for a global effort to prevent the rapid spread of
Fusarium wilt disease in bananas
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has received approval for REGALIA MAXX
for new uses in Canada
-
Bayer CropScience has received approval for its new insecticide
Sivanto from the US EPA
-
A
European Commission proposal to establish an EU list of 77 candidates
for substitution has been endorsed by EU Member State experts
-
A recent report estimates the 2014 biostimulants market to have been
worth $1.4 billion
-
Monsanto reports a 8.7% decrease in sales revenue to $2,870 million in
the first quarter of its financial year 2015
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Headlines
from December 2014 |
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Martin
Dawkins of Bayer CropScience has taken over as the ECPA president
-
Bayer receives an import certificate from China for its LL55
Liberty Link variety and plans a full commercial US launch for
2015
-
Syngenta has received import approval for its Agrisure
Viptera trait in China
-
EFSA has
published its annual report on pesticide residues in food for 2012
-
DuPont and Monsanto have announced that they have agreed to settle and
dismiss their respective patent infringement lawsuits pending in the
US District Court in St Louis
-
FMC appoints new director for Asia and president of FMC
-
Dow AgroSciences has announced that Conkesta will be the brand
name for its novel insect-resistant trait for soybeans
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The
Polish Crop Protection Association has launched another
educational campaign to promote their container
management programme
-
ADAMA plans to invest at least $50 million in India over the next
three years
-
Gowan
USA has become the distributor of the fungicide Domark 230ME
for use on corn and soybeans
-
Monsanto has introduced Roundup ControlMax in Argentina
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has received a product registration from
Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA) for its biofungicide
Regalia Maxx
-
The US EPA has approved ILeVO,a soybean seed treatment that
also protects against infections caused by the Sudden Death Syndrome
fungus
|
Headlines
from November 2014 |
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BASF
launches a new oilseed rape fungicide Pictor in the UK
-
Dow AgroSciences is to launch its innovative herbicide Enlist Duo
for the 2015 crop season
-
Syngenta is implementing a savings programme of $265 million in 2015
that will result in job reductions and relocations totaling around
1,800 across the company
-
BayerCropScience has opened its Weed Resistance Competence Centre (WRCC)
in Frankfurt
-
Verdesian Life Sciences has launched a new biological herbicide that
will give US growers suppression of downy brome
-
Adama
has developed a metamitron-based thinning agent
Valent USA is expanding in order to enhance the sales and technical
support it gives to customers of its growing speciality and row crop
portfolio
-
Syngenta has expanded its Brits Formulation, Fill & Packaging Plant
(FF&P) in the South African North-West Province
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Rotam and Cibus have launched a
non-transgenic SU Canola (sulfonylurea tolerant) in the US
-
Plant Health Care (PHC) has entered into development and distribution
agreements with both Sipcam and Arysta LifeScience
-
ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd has reported that its business grew
by 4.3% and 6.1% in the third quarter and the first nine months of
2014, respectively
-
Mitsui & Co has reached agreement with
DuPont to acquire its global Kocide and ManKocide copper
fungicide business assets
-
Sumitomo Chemical has acquired the DuPont Asana insecticide
business in the US
-
AgBiome has announced a research partnership with Syngenta
Biotechnology
-
Monsanto has entered into a settlement agreement with US wheat growers
in the Pacific Northwest that resolves a number of lawsuits related to
the May 2013 discovery of GM wheat on a farm in Eastern Oregon
|
Headlines
from October 2014 |
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Bayer CropScience will introduce 21 new products into China before
2020
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Agform
receives UK approval for isoproturon mixtures
-
GM wheat developed by Monsanto
is identified
in Montana, US
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Platform Specialty Products is to acquire Arysta LifeScience
-
Dow
to invest heavily in Africa
-
Bayer CropScience holds Corn and Soybean Future
Forum in Frankfurt
-
Third quarter revenue for FMC Agricultural Solutions
was $548.8 million, an increase of 4% versus the prior year quarter
-
Makhteshim Agan UK becomes Adama Agricultural Solutions UK and
launches two distinct product ranges - Essential and Advanced
-
Syngenta has reported that group sales, including Lawn and Garden,
increased by 2% at constant exchange rates in the third quarter of
2014 to $2.975 billion
-
Valent to market
MGK insect products
-
BASF
reports that third quarter sales in the Agricultural Solutions segment
were down 3% to €1.018 billion
-
Bayer CropScience is purchasing certain Crop Protection Land
Management assets from DuPont
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BASF and MAUK join forces to promote a
metazachlor stewardship programme
-
Bayer CropScience calls on farmers
to respond to the EU consultaion regarding endocrine disruptors
-
Evogene has expanded its crop protection activities with the
completion of dedicated facilities to support future R&D
-
The French
government adopts the ‘Future Food Law’
-
Koppert Biological
Systems is constructing a new international R&D centre in the
Netherlands
-
Rotam Global AgroSciences has first half year sales of $158.5 million,
up by 33% compared to 2013
-
The US
EPA is introducing a new Drift Reduction Technology programme to
encourage the safe use of pesticides
-
Bayer CropScience sales increased in the third quarter by 12.7%
to €1.929 billion
-
MBI introduces
organisational changes, a reduction in headcount and appoints a new
vice president for sales
-
Bayer CropScience has launched a national helpline to provide farmers
across India with free technical support
-
Monsanto has reported full fiscal year sales for 2014 of approximately
$15.9 billion, a 7% increase over 2013
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Headlines from September
2014 |
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Bayer
CropScience has acquired the sole European distribution rights for the
biological fungicide Contans
-
The De
Sangosse Group has acquired the Geneva-based Lance Limk Group's
Turkish agricultural supply business
-
ADAMA has received federal registration
from the US EPA for Nimitz, a novel, non-fumigant nematicide
-
Bayer CropScience’s insecticide Biscaya has gained an extension
of use in the UK for the control of peach–potato aphid, the main
vector of turnip yellows virus (TuYV), in oilseed rape
-
Nufarm has reported that its crop protection business grew sales by
16% to $2.48 billion in the 12 months ending 31 July 2014
-
Bayer CropScience is expanding
production at its Muttenz site in Switzerland
-
Nufarm
Australia and Israel-based technology firm Phytech
have made an exclusive agreement to jointly develop a proprietary
plant monitoring system in Australia and New Zealand
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Bayer expects the worldwide market for crop protection products, seeds
and traits to grow to around €100 billion by 2020
-
Bayer CropScience has entered into an agreement to purchase the seed
business of Granar, based in Paraguay
-
Monsanto is expanding its Corn Rootworm Knowledge Programme to include
projects on other insect pests on row crops
-
Syngenta has announced the appointment of Jon Parr as chief operating
officer
-
Elanco and Dow AgroSciences
have entered a strategic R&D agreement that will focus on
developing integrated solutions to enable livestock producers to
increase meat and milk production
-
Adama and the China National Agrochemical Corporation (CNAC)
have agreed to acquire the control of a number of businesses
in China with 2013 sales of around $850 million
-
Cheminova has launched a new selective herbicide, Harrow,
for use in field corn in the US
-
US-based Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) has received a patent for the
use of Chromobacterium for the control of corn rootworm larvae
infestation
|
Headlines
from August 2014 |
Adama agchem sales up 9% in Q2 2014
DuPont Pioneer to open three new research facilities
Adama (Makhteshim Agan) brings back chlortoluron
BASF Crop Protection has opened its first formulation and packaging
plant in China
Bayer CropScience is to launch a new broadleaf corn herbicide,
DiFlexx
FMC to access turf and ornamental products from Arysta for sale in
North America
Mitsui is to acquire DuPont Crop Protection’s global copper fungicide
trademarks
American
Vanguard's sales fell by 21.3% to $68.3 million in the second quarter of
2014
Enigma Marketing Research is now offering its new
Off-Patent/Generic Agrochemicals – Post 2015 report
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EFSA rejects French move to ban
GM crops in Europe
-
DuPont to
introduce preplant herbicide Afforia in the US
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has received registration for its
bioinsecticide Venerate in California
-
US-based
Phyllom BioProducts and Vestaron have entered into a research and
development collaboration to develop novel bioinsecticides
-
Greenpeace
India has published a report which claims that tea samples contain
pesticide residues well above the MRL
-
Exeter University study warns of increased spread of crop pests
-
Platform
Specialty Products to acquire Agriphar
-
Exosect to develop biological admix
technology for control of grain pests
|
Headlines
from July 2014 |
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Exosect
has received $4 million funding
-
France's
Senate has backed tougher rules on pesticide
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The Chinese company Huapont-Nutrichem intends to invest in Albaugh
-
Bayer CropScience introducea a disease resistant rootstock for
planting tomatoes in open fields in Brazil
-
DuPont has launched Dermacor (chlorantraniliprole) in Brazil to
control the caterpillar of Helicoverpa armigera on cotton or
soybeans
-
.Arysta
LifeScience has received registration for the corn herbicide
Dinamic 70WG in China
-
Nichino America has acquired sole US distribution rights to the
Strada rice herbicide portfolio
-
DuPont has reported agriculture segment sales of $3,615 million at the
end of the second quarter 2014 down 1% from the same period in 2013
-
New report estimates global seed treatment market to be worth
$2.8 billion in 2014 and projects it will reach $4.6 billion by
2019
-
Sales by Bayer CropScience increased by 3.3% (Fx & portfolio adj
10.5%) to € 2,470 million in the second quarter.
-
Dow AgroSciences achieved record second quarter sales of $1.9 billion,
up 3% versus the same period in 2013
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Syngenta has announced plans to broaden and scale up its Plene
platform of integrated sugar cane solutions
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Bayer CropScience has launched Sivanto Prime (flupyradifurone),
an insecticide aimed to protect vegetable crops in Honduras and Guatemala
-
GEP
accreditation has been granted to SynTech’s operations in Germany by
the Recognising Authority
-
Ceres has licensed
its Persephone genome visualisation application to Bayer CropScience
-
Evogene Ltd and Marrone Bio Innovations are to collaborate on
the discovery of novel bio-insecticides
-
BASF has reported that sales by its Agricultural Solutions segment
declined by 3.5% to €1,666 million compared with the second quarter of
2013
-
John
Deere and BASF have signed an agreement which covers the joint
development of integrated precision farming solutions
-
Syngenta has reported that group sales in the first half of 2014
increased by 1% to $8.5 billion, 4% at constant exchange rates.
-
Valent has launched the Intego Suite System for soybeans in the
US
-
DuPont Pioneer has announced that Dr Neal Gutterson has joined the
business as vice president of Agricultural Biotechnology
-
Dow AgroSciences has received an R&D 100 award from the US R&D
Magazine for its insecticides Transform and Closer
|
Headlines
from June 2014 |
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SESVanderHave has developed a novel herbicide tolerance trait for sugar
beet
Syngenta
is to acquire the German and Polish winter wheat and winter oilseed rape
breeding and business operations of Lantmännen
-
BASF has developed a new herbicide tolerant rice system called
Provisia
-
BCPC
has launched a new edition of the Manual of Biocontrol Agents
-
Monsanto
has launched a new dry formulation of glyphosate in the UK
-
Exosect has received a US patent for its Entomag delivery platform
-
Bayer CropScience has recently opened a new SeedGrowth Centre in
Vietnam
-
Syngenta has unveiled plans for the introduction of benzovindiflupyr in
the US
-
Monsanto has reported that its sales were flat at $4,250 million in the
third quarter of fiscal year 2014
-
Mitsui Chemicals Agro and BASF have recently announced that they have
signed an exclusive global development and license agreement for a new
insecticide
-
Arysta LifeScience Japan recently launched its latest microbial
insecticide, Pirates GR, to control thrips
-
Dr Adrian Percy, currently senior vice president of Global Regulatory
Affairs within Bayer CropScience will take over as head of Global
Research & Development
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Bayer
CropScience has announced its intention to invest in wheat breeding in
the UK
BASF plans to invest more than €200 million to expand production capacity
for the herbicides dicamba and dimethenamid at its Beaumont,
Texas site
-
Gowan Company has received US federal registration for Captiva, a
natural repellent bioinsecticide
-
EU has
finally reached political agreement on a compromise approach to the
cultivation of GM crops
-
German
agrochemicals sales rose by 7.5% to €1,506 million in 2013
-
Euroblight
researchers has been able to spatially plot the distribution and
diversity of potato blight across Europe
-
Valent BioSciences Corporation has opened a new $146 million biorational
manufacturing facility in Osage, USA
-
De
Sangosse has announced the acquisition of Fine Holdings Limited
-
Certis Europe is to further strengthen its management board with the
appointment of Steve Kirby as head of Strategic Marketing
-
Rotam CropSciences’ Chinese business has been ranked number two for
sales value out of the ‘Top 30 Formulators’ by the China Crop Protection
Industry Association (CCPIA) for the second consecutive year
-
Micron is to be Arysta LifeScience’s partner in the Applique
Bien programme in West Africa
-
Syngenta and Anheuser-Busch InBev have set up a partnership to
secure the sourcing of high quality malting barley
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Headlines
from May 2014 |
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Arysta
LifeScience has received registration for the herbicide Centurion
Plus in the Netherlands
-
Verdesian Life Sciences has appointed Nufarm as its exclusive
distributor of Bloomtime in the US and Canada
-
Summit Agro USA (SAUS) has added the fungicide Ranman 400SC to
its product portfolio
-
US crop protection sales were up 8% in 2013
-
Dow
AgroSciences has received Chinese registration for Arylex
active
-
Bayer
CropScience and Israel-based Kaiima Bio-Agritech Ltd are to
collaborate to develop advanced hybrid rice varieties
-
Adama Agricultural Solutions Ltd. (formerly Makhteshim Agan
Industries) has reported that sales revenues for the first quarter
2014 increased by 2.7%
Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) has acquired Harlan Laboratories
The European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) has published a new
policy vision document A vision for the future of Europe
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Rob
King, business manager Asia and Africa for Cheminova, has been
appointed managing director of Makhteshim-Agan UK
-
Gowan and Nichino America plan to end the distribution agreement that
has allowed Gowan to market two of Nichino’s fungicides
-
FMC reports that first quarter sales revenues for its Agricultural
Solutions segment were down 6%
-
Marrone Bio Innovations and Valagro have signed an agreement to
collaborate in the discovery and development of agricultural products
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has submitted its bioinsecticide Venerate
for registration in Canada and Mexico
-
Bayer CropScience´s rice herbicide Council has been granted its
first regulatory approval worldwide in Korea
-
Syngenta recently opened its eleventh research and development (R&D)
facility in Brits, South Africa
-
Bayer CropScience plans to make further investments in innovative
nematode control tools
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Headlines
from April 2014 |
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Syngenta
has acquired Produttori Sementi di Bologna, a leader in durum
wheat breeding and production
-
Bayer CropScience and Targenomix have entered into a five-year
research collaboration
-
Orgsyntes plans to invest between $100 million and $150 million in
building a factory for the production of glyphosate in Russia
-
DuPont Crop Protection has introduced Trivence, a preplant or
pre-emergence herbicide for soybean
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has submitted its biofumigant MBI-601 to the
US EPA for registration
-
Sales of Bayer’s agriculture business increased in the first
quarter by 4.9%
-
Nufarm is to close its manufacturing facility at Otahuhu in New
Zealand
-
Croda has launched a new range of rheology modifiers
-
Syngenta has reported that its integrated sales increased in the first
quarter of 2014 by 5%
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Nunhems
is changing its look and will operate under the Bayer
CropScience brand
-
Summit Agro Internationalhas acquired the fungicide metominostrobin
from Bayer CropScience Japan
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has submitted its bioinsecticide Grandevo
for registration in Mexico
-
Monsanto posts a 6.9% increase in sales to $5,832 million in the
second quarter of financial year 2014
-
Panama disease threatens the world banana crop
-
Chemtura has agreed to sell its agrochemicals business, Chemtura
AgroSolutions (CAS), to Platform Specialty Products
-
Adama Agricultural Solutions has begun rolling out its new
global branding programme
-
Russia has banned the importation of GM food and seeds
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Headlines
from March 2014 |
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ADAMA sales
increased by 8.5% to $3,076.4 million in 2013
-
Bayer CropScience expands its
biopesticide production site in Wismar, Germany
Marrone Bio Innovations
revenues for 2013 totaled $14.5 million, representing growth of
104%
-
Arysta LifeScience
launches the
grass weed herbicide Everest WDG in Russia
-
The European Commission adopts a
report that concludes there is a need to create a €350,000
European fund for minor uses of pesticides
-
Syngenta has announced
that brassica and carrot seed can now be treated with FarMore
technology
-
Innvictis Crop Care
launches its patented EndurX Technology Platform
-
Cibus Global has
received approval for its SU Canola in Canada
-
Dow
appoints Tim Hassinger as the new president and chief executive
officer of its subsidiary Dow AgroSciences
-
DuPont
has opened a new research facility in Delmas, South Africa
-
Dow brands
halauxifen-methyl
its
new herbicide active ingredient
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FMC Corporation plans to separate into two independent public
companies New FMC and FMC Minerals
-
Arysta
LifeScience Limited has acquired the Goëmar group
-
Monsanto
will be awarding six new grants as part of its Corn Rootworm (CRW)
Knowledge Research Programme
-
New
report from the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC)
highlights potentially devastating plant pests and diseases
-
Australia Nufarm Limited is to re-organise its Australian operations
-
Study
measures the potential impact of the French pesticide reduction scheme
on winter wheat production
-
Bayer CropScience acquires the Biagro Group
-
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) has received federal registration from
the EPA for its bioinsecticide Venerate
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has received a US patent covering applications
of products containing anthraquinone derivatives
-
BioConsortia has appointed Marcus Meadows-Smith as its CEO
-
Monsanto and researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) form new company Preceres
|
Headlines
from February 2014 |
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Valent BioSciences and Biomar Microbial
Technologies enter into long-term strategic alliance
-
Syngenta's new corn herbicide premix containing four active
ingredients will be marketed as Acuron when it receives US EPA
registration
-
The
global biotech crop area has grown from 1.7 million hectares in 1996
to over 175 million hectares in 2013
-
Bayer
CropScience is making its new seed lubricant, Fluency Agent,
commercially available in the US
-
BASF has
launched a direct distribution business in Australia
-
BASF has
received full US EPA approval for its fungicide Sercadis
-
Syngenta’s new fungicide Elatus has been approved by the
Brazilian authorities for the control of soybean rust
-
Bayer
CropScience increased sales revenue by 5.2% to €8.82 billion in 2013
-
Nufarm
Limited has carried out a partial re-organisation of its executive
management team
-
Vestaron Corporation has received US EPA approval for the active
ingredient in its new bio-insecticide
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Evogene launches target
discovery platform for novel herbicides
-
US-based GreenLight Biosciences and Bayer CropScience are setting up a
partnership to explore applications of GreenLight’s proprietary
cell-free technologies
Bayer CropScience has submitted a US EPA registration application for
ILeVO, the first seed treatment to tackle soybean sudden death
syndrome
Syngenta’s Cruiser Maxx Potato Extreme seed treatment has been
registered for use on potato crops in Canada
Devidayal Sales Limited acquired by Arysta in March 2011, is to
become Arysta LifeScience India Limited
UK scientists
have boosted resistance of potatoes to late blight without the use of
fungicides
The FAO is
co-operating with the EU to dispose of obsolete pesticides and to reduce
risks from pesticides
Koppert
has strengthened its position in the Brazilian biological crop
protection market by acquiring Manejo Agrícola
UK research
scientists have identified a new way of controlling brown rot, a fungal
disease problem in stone fruits
BASF
Crop Protection is now expecting to reach its previous sales target of
€8 billion by 2020
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Headlines from January 2014 |
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Makhteshim Agan Industries (MAI) will adopt a new global brand, ADAMA,
starting in April 2014
-
EU
Member States have voted to withdraw approval for all methiocarb slug
pellets
-
Mycogen Seeds will feature PowerCore, a new trait technology,
in its corn hybrid lineup for the 2015 growing season
Chen Lichtenstein will be taking up the position of CEO and president
at ADAMA, replacing Erez Vigodman
-
Makhteshim Agan North America (MANA) has introduced Custodia, a
premix fungicide for use on corn, soybeans and wheat
-
Arysta LifeScience North America has unveiled a new chemistry, aβpro
Yield Enhancer, that uses alpha beta proteins to stimulate plants’
natural growth responses
-
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) has secured a license to a plant health
active ingredient from Kao Corporation
-
SynTech Research is setting up a Bee Health Unit based at its HQ site in
the US
-
Syngenta has reported a decline in its 2013 profit. EBITDA was 7%
lower and the EBITDA margin dropped from 21.9% to 19.7%
-
The
International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC)
will receive approximately €1 million over the
next six months from Bayer CropScience
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-
The
BIOCOMES EU project will focus on the development of at least 11 new
biological control products
-
Nufarm Limited has reached an agreement with Valent USA to secure
marketing and distribution rights to products for the US turf,
ornamental and aquatics market
-
Bayer CropScience has received the
necessary US and international approvals for its TwinLink
cotton technology
-
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) and the New Zealand Institute for Plant
& Food Research have signed a collaborative research agreement
-
Certis
Europe has signed an agreement with Chemtura AgroSolutions that
extends its distribution of seed treatment products
-
Bayer CropScience has signed two new agreements with US-based
Cellectis plant sciences
-
New Finnish study says neonictinoid insecticides may not cause harm
to bees
-
Dow AgriSciences has reported record fourth quarter sales of $1.8
billion, up 13% compared to the previous year
-
Robert Berendes, head of business development, will be leaving
Syngenta at the end of the first quarter 2014 to become co-owner and
partner of a-connect
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Headlines from December 2013 |
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A
new pilot project for the collection of empty packaging from plant
protection products has been launched in Bulgaria
-
EU Court annuls BASF's GM potato authorisation
-
Marrone Bio submits biological nematicide for
US registration
-
Nufarm launches improved copper products
-
Syngenta to sell its Dulcinea Farms melon
business
-
BASF invests in integrated IT tools
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Monsanto and Novozymes form BioAg alliance
-
Gowan to distribute Isagro products in the US
-
Wet weather impacts on Amvac's sales
-
Syngenta expands Paso vegetable seed
processing facility
-
The
European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) has appointed Jean-Charles
Bocquet as its new director general
-
Syngenta
launches new products for sugar cane
- FMC receives new registrations for
Regalia Maxx in Latin America
|
Headlines from November 2013 |
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Syngenta appoints Karsten Neuffer as new regional director for
Latin America
-
Makhteshim Agan announces record third
quarter sales
-
Dow
AgroSciences has received registration for its trait technology
Powercore from the US EPA
-
Syngenta has received registration for the post-emergence herbicide
Callisto GT from the US EPA
-
Syngenta has announced that Karsten Neuffer, who is currently global
head of Seed Care, will succeed Antonio Carlos Guimarães as regional
director for Latin America
-
Bayer CropScience has entered an agreement to purchase the start-up
company FN Semillas based in Buenos Aires, Argentina
-
Syngenta
UK has launched Amphore Plus, a new fungicide that controls two
potato diseases in one treatment
-
BASF
Crop Protection has developed a new transfer system ezi-connect for
crop protection products
-
Makhteshim Agan Industries (MAI) presented its new potato blight
fungicide Banjo Forte at the recent European Association of
Potato Researchers conference
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Isagro gives Arysta exclusive rights to
develop mixtures of tetraconazole and fluoxastrobin
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Auriga,
the parent company of Cheminova, reports that its revenue increased by
7% to DKK 1,575 million in Q3 and by 6% to DKK 5,096 million for the
nine month period
-
US
crop protection chemical industry is projected to become an $11
billion market at the distributor level during 2013
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Bayer CropScience and Agrotop to
launch a closed transfer system for pesticides
-
Makhteshim Agan (MAI) has reported that it has reached a regulatory
milestone in the registration of Nimitz , a new non-fumigant
nematicide
-
Dow
AgroSciences has won a second lawsuit involving its Enlist
technology
-
Makhteshim Agan
Industries (MAI) has acquired Agrovita, one of the top five
distributors of crop protection products in Slovakia
-
The
Stockton Group has entered into agreements with Syngenta for the
supply and distribution of Timorex Gold by Syngenta in Chile
and Mexico
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Koppert Biological
Systems has acquired the German-based business Welte-Nützlinge
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Arysta LifeScience recently launched the fungicide Evito T (fluoxastrobin)
in Zambia and Mozambique
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Bayer CropScience announced that it is beginning to renovate
its North American headquarters.
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Syngenta has received registration in Argentina for Fortenza, a
novel seed treatment insecticide
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Dow AgroSciences wins second case brought by
Bayer CropScience involving Enlist technology
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FMC Agricultural Solutions’ third-quarter segment revenues of $530.2
million increased 25% versus the prior-year quarter
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FMC forms strategic alliance with Chr.
Hansen to compete in biological crop protection market
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BASF
has filed a legal action with the General Court of the European Union
challenging the Commission’s decision to restrict major seed
treatment uses of the insecticide fipronil
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ISEM has sold the rights and assets related to its proprietary
herbicide orthosulfamuron to Nihon Nohyaku
-
Syngenta has launched a new liquid seed treatment, CruiserMaxx
Potato Extreme, for the potato industry
-
Dow’s Agricultural Sciences recorded an 8.3% increase to $1,410
million in the third quarter
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Evogene is extending and expanding its multi-year research
collaboration with DuPont Pioneer for developing soybean varieties
displaying resistance to Asian soybean rust
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Dow AgroSciences has announced a food security initiative
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Syngenta and the energy crop company Ceres have extended their joint
market development agreement in Brazil
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The Bayer CropScience business increased its sales in the third
quarter by 4.3% (Fx & portfolio adj. 12.1%) to €1,712 million
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Makhteshim Agan North America (MANA) has introduced Voxien, its
emulsifiable concentrate formulation technology
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Chief EU scientist supports
calls for a rethink on GM crops
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FMC acquires the Centre for Agricultural
and Environmental Biosolutions (CAEB) at RTI International
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BASF posted a 4.6% increase in agrochemical sales to €1,054 million in
the third quarter
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Syngenta reports a sales
increase of 11% in third quarter at constant exchange rates.
Sales for first nine months increased by 5%
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The
European Commission to approve Bayer CropScience’s
fungicide penflufen as a potato seed treatment
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Phillips McDougall has been acquired by Informa Business Information
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BASF has received approval from the Brazilian regulatory authorities
for its fungicide Xemium
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Evogene has extended its research collaboration with Syngenta
Biotechnology by three years
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Makhteshim Agan acquires Magan
Agrochemicals in Serbia
-
Monsanto has pledged an additional $3 million to support academic
research on corn rootworm
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Nufarm's crop protection business and grew sales by just over 4%
to $2.15 billion in fiscal year 2013
-
Syngenta
has announced that it has now expanded its production capacity at
Kaisten, Switzerland for S-metolachlor
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Syngenta launches its Good Growth Plan
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Research
and development for new crop protection products needed by European
farmers is in decline, according to a new study
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Sumitomo Chemical opens a new
subsidiary of its Brazil business in Argentina
- Makhteshim Agan and Yissum
are to develop a novel method for protecting plants using yeast from
strawberry leaves
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BASF's Crop Protection division expects to achieve sales
of more than €6 billion by 2015 and €8 billion by 2020
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Dow AgroSciences has announced the brand name for a new herbicide
active ingredient halauxifen-methyl
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Arysta LifeScience India has launched a new acaricide, Pallid-X,
in India
-
Makhteshim Agan and Yissum have signed an agreement for the
development and commercialisation of a new biocontrol method for
protecting a variety of plants
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Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency has announced
that it has proposed new rules to address the problem of neonicotinoid
insecticides
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SynTech has set up a new research facility in China
-
Jose
Luis Collar has been appointed as head of Portfolio Management Europe
for Makhteshim Agan
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Monsanto has reported net sales for the full fiscal year of
approximately $14.9 billion, a 10% increase over fiscal year 2012
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Isagro USA has received approval from the US EPA for Dominus, a
biopesticide and pre-plant soil treatment
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Aduvant
market is projected to grow annually by 5% through to 2018
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GfK values Chinese crop protection market at $14
billion at farmer level
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FMC has acquired rights to develop and sell Belchim patented fungicide in
the Americas
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The US EPA has introduced additional rules to protect bees
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Bayer is to invest
€2.4 billion to expand capacity
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Dow
AgroSciences and Taminco US have entered a strategic supply agreement
for choline hydroxide
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Bayer
CropScience has opened 10 SeedGrowth Centres around the world
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European Commission is to
reconsider rules on organic farming
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Rotam is to expand dicamba use
in the US
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Militant farmers destroy GM
Golden Rice trials in the Philippines
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UK study shows that global
warming is contributing to spread of pests
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AMVAC first half sales
up by
21%
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Syngenta and Bayer are taking legal action against the European
Commission over its suspension of the use of their neonicotinoid
insecticides on bee attractive crops
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CRO Syntech is expanding the
facilities at its Stillwell site in the US
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Cheminova is to introduce an azoxystrobin fungicide for use on row and
speciality crops in the US
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Tougher rules introduced for
metaldehyde use in the UK
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Syngenta to distribute Isagro's
copper product Badge
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EU awards
€8 million grant for research into bioproducts
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Bayer CropScience is evaluating
a new seed treatment lubricant
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Eurofins Scientific has acquired a majority stake in Agrisearch
Services
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Makhteshim
Agan reports a 2.5% increase for second quarter sales
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Monsanto is withdrawing all of its applications for approval for
GM crop cultivation in the EU
UK-based
Exosect has announced the completion of a new round of funding
Dow AgroSciences has reported sales of $1,850 million for the second
quarter up 10.4%
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It has been
reported that the UK government’s bee scientist is set to join Syngenta
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Syngenta is plans to expand its US Innovation Centre in Research
Triangle Park
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FMC Agricultural Solutions' second quarter revenues increased 12%
to $442.6 million
-
Arysta
LifeScience Brazil has recently announced the introduction of its new
Green Passport product line
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The regulatory authorities in Korea have granted import approval for
Syngenta’s Agrisure 3122 trait stack for food or feed use
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Rotam
CropSciences has opened a new office in Jakarta, Indonesia as the
headquarters of its new Asia Pacific region
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Sales of BASF’s crop protection segment rose by 17.7% to €1,727 million
in the second quarter
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Gowan Group and Isagro have announced a new partnership
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France's top administrative court has recently thrown out a government
ban on Monsanto’s MON810
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Rothamsted Research and Syngenta are to form a scientific research partnership focused on
wheat
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Rotam
is adding dicamba to its maize herbicide portfolio in Europe
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Sales of
DuPont’s agriculture segment rose by 7.2% to $3,631 million in the
second quarter
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Bayer
CropScience plans to consolidate and expand its US-based R&D operations
for vegetable seeds and biological crop protection products at a new
site in California
-
Bayer
CropScience Brazil and Plant Impact (UK) have signed an agreement to
market advanced nutrition technologies for soybeans
-
Bayer
CropScience has reported that second quarter sales increased by 5.1% to
€2,392 million
-
Euralis
Semences has signed a new global, non-exclusive agreement with BASF
for Clearfield Plus herbicide tolerance for sunflowers
-
Syngenta’s
crop protection sales were up by 2.8% to $2,892 million in the second
quarter
-
Meiji Seika Pharma and Dow AgroSciences
are to co-develop and commercialise a fungicide from a new class of
chemistry
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Rotam Europe has received registration for its herbicide
Primero in
France
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Arysta LifeScience launches its herbicide Everest 70 WDG in Argentina
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American Vanguard and Monsanto extend crop protection collaboration
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Makhteshim
Agan has established a wholly owned subsidiary in Lithuania
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The
European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) has joined a number of other
organisations in signing the ‘Every Crumb Counts’ declaration against
food wastage
-
Marrone
Bio Innovations (MBI) has obtained a US patent for sarmentine, the
active ingredient in its new bioherbicide MBI-011
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Cheminova is launching Nero (clomazone + pethoxamid), a new
herbicide product for oilseed rape
-
Makhteshim Agan is planning to double the capacity of its Indian
manufacturing facility at Dahej
-
Monsanto has reported that net sales for the first nine months of its
financial year increased by $1.3 billion over the prior year period to
approximately $12.7 billion
-
Monsanto is to collaborate with Nimbus Discovery on the discovery of
novel approaches for previously inaccessible disease targets
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BASF invests more than €50 million to expand its crop protection
production capacity in South America
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Bayer CropScience has opened a new Wheat
Breeding Station close to Paris
-
Bayer
CropScience and the International Finance Corporation have announced an
innovative partnership to support modernisation of agriculture in
Ukraine
-
EFSA has
published guidance for assessing the potential risks to bees from the
use of pesticides
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The US state of Connecticut has become the first to successfully enact a
law requiring food containing GM ingredients to be labelled
-
Makhteshim Agan Industries and China National Agrochemical Corporation (CNAC)
have appointed MAI's Deputy CEO, Chen Lichtenstein, as president and
CEO of CNAC
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Syngenta is to acquire MRI Seed Zambia Ltd and MRI Agro Ltd
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Monsanto Australia has increased its shareholding in InterGrain to 26%
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Researchers at the Kansas State University and University of
California-Davis have identified a gene that gives wheat plants
resistance to the wheat stem rust race Ug99
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Makhteshim acquires stake in ChileAgro
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Makhteshim's revenues for the first quarter of 2013 were $885.4
million,
a 7% increase
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Syngenta
has opened a new, state of the art plant breeding support facility at
its Jealott’s Hill research and development site in the UK
The James
Hutton Institute and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) have launched a new
research programme looking into activating plants’ natural defences
Linde Gases has launched
a Crop Science business
Dow AgroSciences has received approval from the US EPA for the new
insecticide active ingredient sulfoxaflor
Syngenta has officially launched Clariva, a proprietary seed
treatment nematicide based on the Pasteuria technology
Engage Agro Corporation of Canada has reached an agreement with Marrone
Bio Innovations to be the exclusive distributor of the bioinsecticide
Grandevo
Dow AgroSciences has announced it has received registration from the US
EPA for its in-plant, three-gene insect protection trait in cotton
Arysta
LifeScience has made geographic adjustments to two of its business units
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De
Sangosse has signed a commercial agreement with Biopreparaty for the exclusive development and
distribution of Polyversum
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AgroSavfe has announced that it will receive a €1.9
million grant from the Agency for Innovation by Science and
Technology in Flanders
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ECPA has
announced a new stewardship and communication initiative to reduce water
contamination from pesticides
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USAID has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Syngenta to support
agriculture and food security activities in Africa, Asia and Latin
America
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Bayer CropScience is to construct a new glufosinate-ammonium
herbicide production plant in the US
-
Chemtura AgroSolutions and Arysta LifeScience South Africa have
announced that they are extending their cooperation in West Africa
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Isagro’s agrochemicals sales dropped by 22.7% to €30.1 million in the
first quarter ending 31 March 2013
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Syngenta and
DuPont have entered technology licensing agreements that will broaden
each company’s fungicide portfolio
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Monsanto
and Bayer enter cross licensing agreement for corn and soybean traits
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Syngenta
acquires MayAgro’s greenhouse vegetable breeding programmes
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Syngenta has reported that its first quarter sales for crop protection
and seed increased by 8% at constant exchange rates
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Arysta LifeScience Corporation has received registration for its patented,
post emergent herbicide Everest in South Africa
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De
Sangosse Group acquires stake in Alpha Biopesticides
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BASF crop
protection sales up 17% in Q1 2013
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Syngenta has
applied for approval of the herbicide mesotrione to be used on MGI
herbicide-tolerant soybeans in the US and Canada
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DuPont reports that sales by its agriculture business in the first
quarter of 2013, including crop protection and seeds, were up 14.4% to
$4.7 billion
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FMC agricultural products segment revenues were up by 9% to $495.2
million in the first quarter of 2013
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Bayer CropScience and KeyGene, have entered into a multi-year
agreement to improve traits in a number of major agricultural crops
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Arysta has signed a product development and license agreement for the
use of Plant Health Care’s proprietary Harpin alpha beta technology
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Belchim
Crop Protection is to acquire ISEM's fungicide valifenalate
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Monsanto and DuPont have agreed to dismiss their respective
antitrust and first-generation Roundup Ready soybean patent
lawsuits
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Dow AgroSciences and Monsanto have cross licensed advanced corn trait
technology
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Dow's agricultural sciences sales up 14% in Q1 2013
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Dr Rüdiger Scheitza, currently head of Strategy & Business Management
at Bayer CropScience, retires end of May 2013
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Nemgenix
and SESVanderHave are to collaborate in the development of a novel
nematode resistant trait for sugar beet
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EU plans
to ban neonicotinoid insecticides from December 2013
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The agrochemical market in Brazil in 2012 increased by over 14%
-
Monsanto plans to bring together its St Louis-based research and
development team onto one campus at its Chesterfield Village Research
Centre at a cost of more than $400 million
-
Bayer reports that the sales of the agriculture business (CropScience)
increased in the first quarter of 2013 by 5.9%
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Sales of Dow AgroSciences’ products in the first quarter 2013 were $2.1
billion, up by 14.4%
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DuPont has
launched a new SDHI cereal fungicide penthiopyrad in the UK
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Monsanto appoints Sinochem as sole
Roundup
distributor in Australia and New Zealand
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Makhteshim2012 revenues rose to $2,834.5 million, an increase of 5.3%
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UKs Defra aims to strengthen the rules
on the sale, storage and use of pesticides
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BASF’s soybean herbicide Zidua has received US federal
approval
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DuPont Pioneer is to invest $26.3 million to expand two of its Indiana
seed production facilities
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Bayer CropScience and Nature Source Genetics have signed an
agreement to expand their cooperation
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The Makhteshim Agan Group will be applying Starpharma’s Priostar dendrimer
technology to novel crop protection formulations
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Makhteshim Agan’s 2012 revenues rose to $2.83 billion from $2,69 billion
in 2011, up 5.3%
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Roundup
branded glyphosate in Australia and New Zealand is to be terminated
Rothamsted Research has submitted an application to Defra to extend its
current GM wheat trials
Syngenta is to have a new seed treatment product for controlling soybean
cyst nematodes in 2014
Makhteshim Agan has received approval from the EPA for the insecticide/miticide
Skyraider
Monsanto has now completed all regulatory approvals in South American
markets for its
soybean product INTACTA RR2 PRO
Roundup Ready canola harvests have more than doubled in Australia
Isagro’s sales revenues increased in 2012 by 2.8% to €148.3 million
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Syngenta 2012 sales $14.2 billion, up 7%
(up 10% at constant exchange rates)
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Certis
Europe has launched a new fungicide Takumi SC, approved for the
control of powdery mildew in cucumber, courgette, melon and summer
squash
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The Swiss
government is to create a permanently protected area on federal land for
experiments with GM crops
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BASF Canada has announced that its herbicide Optill
has been registered for use on soybeans for the 2013 season
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Valent's residual
herbicide Fierce has received US EPA registration on soybeans
-
Nufarm’s wholly owned subsidiary, Nuseed do Brasil, has acquired
51% of the equity in Atlantica Sementes
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Monsanto has launched Weedsmart, a new industry-wide initiative to deal
with herbicide resistance
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BASF’s Agricultural Solutions had another record year in 2012 as sales
rose by 12% to €4.7 billion
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GM crops in Brazil grew by record 6.3 million hectares in 2012
reaching 36.6 million hectares
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BASF’s
fungicide Initium (amectoctradin) has been approved in the EU
-
Syngenta
has asked the European Commission to retract its proposal to restrict
the use of neonicotinoid technology
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Syngenta has announced that the USDA has fully deregulated Agrisure
Duracade
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Isagro has entered into a regional agreement with Syngenta for the
exclusive supply and distribution of their biological fungicide
Remedier
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Bayer CropScience increased its sales in 2012 by 15.5% to €8.4 billion
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Rotam
CropSciences has restructured and will now be operating through nine
regions instead of six
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Monsanto has purchased select assets from Agradis
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Monsanto's first-quarter profits nearly tripled to
$339 million
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Exosect-led stored
grain project has been extended to Africa
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Washington state is set
to hold ballot on GM food labelling
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Nufarm Americas has acquired Cleary Chemical Corporation
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BASF Canada has received regulatory approval for its fungicide Zampro
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Bayer CropScience has launched a broad-spectrum fungicide Luna
Tranquility in Canada
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The
Russian authorities have lifted the ban on Monsanto’s glyphosate
tolerant maize NK603
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New CEO at BayerCropScience
outlines a five-point plan to propel a Greener Revolution
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BayerCropScience acquires
German biocontrol company Prophyta
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Monsanto to introduce
Genuity DroughtGard
Corn Hybrids developed in
collaboration with BASF in 2013
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Monsanto
sales
increase
21% over the prior year's first quarter to $2.9 billion
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Bayer
CropScience is to take back the Serenade bio-fungicide business
from BASF in the UK
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The French
Ministry of Agriculture has launched a website that brings together
information on Integrated Pest Management
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The US EPA
has granted approval for DuPont’s fungicide Aproach on corn,
soybean and wheat
-
Certis
USA has entered into an agreement with Kaken Pharmaceutical Co to
introduce a new polyoxin D zinc salt formulation to the US market
-
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a method to
determine whether spores from Asian soybean rust are viable
-
FMC has announced that its Agricultural Products Group has signed a
global licensing agreement with GAT Microencapsulation
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Arysta
LifeScience Corporation and Laboratoires Goëmar have announced the
conclusion of two agreements to develop and distribute biostimulants and
biocontrol products in Europe
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Command
herbicide is now recommended for use in the Clearfield Production
System for rice
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Sumitomo Chemical has taken a majority stake in MGK, a US-based provider
of insect control technologies in North America
-
Valent BioSciences Corporation (VBC) has signed an agreement to acquire
Pace International
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Makhteshim Agan Industries has appointed Jean-Marc Dardier as head
of global marketing
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Bayer CropScience has held its first Vegetable Future Forum
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The first case of glyphosate resistance in New Zealand has been
confirmed in annual ryegrass on a Marlborough vineyard
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Syngenta
has received EU approval for its SDHI fungicide isopyrazam
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The UK
Crop Protection Association (CPA) has announced the appointment of a new
chief executive
-
Syngenta
has been granted import approval by the European Commission for
the Agrisure Viptera trait
-
Griffin Greenhouse Supplies has signed an agreement to acquire the
Syngenta Horticultural Services (SHS) distribution and brokerage
business
-
BASF has two new products based on its total release technology (TR),
the insecticide Pylon TR and the fungicide TrinityTR
-
Dow AgroSciences and MS Technologies have announced that the brand name
for the industry’s first-ever, three-gene herbicide tolerant soybean
will be Enlist E3
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The Court of Justice of the State of Mato Grosso has decided that
Monsanto can resume its collection of royalties for Roundup Ready
soybeans
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Arysta LifeScience has introduced its herbicide Dinamic to sugar
cane growers in Thailand
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Makhteshim Agan has reported that its sales grew by 4.2% and 7.2% in the
third quarter and the first nine months respectively
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The EU’s
food safety agency, EFSA, has definitively rejected the report from the
University of Caen linking genetically modified corn to cancer
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Ceres and Syngenta have signed a major deal
to stimulate sweet sorghum adoption
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Syngenta will acquire Sunfield Seeds a US-based
provider of sunflower seeds production and processing services
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Novozymes is to acquire Natural Industries based
in Houston, US
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Biopreparáty and Gowan Company have signed a commercial agreement for
the exclusive distribution of Polyversum
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Cheminova’s agrochemicals sales increased by 4.6% compared with last
year in the third quarter of 2012. Sales of agrochemical in the
first nine months rose by 11.8%
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California has voted by a narrow majority, to reject the labelling
of GM foods
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BASF has completed the acquisition of Becker Underwood for $1.02 billion
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AMVAC has formed a new joint venture with natural life science company
TyraTech
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Makhteshim Agan Industries has appointed Dr Anders Harfstrand as
president & CEO of its Europe Region
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The
European Commission is proposing to cut targets for the use of biofuels
to reduce the negative impact on food production and prices
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The CropScience subgroup raised sales by 19.0% million in Q3 2011
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SynTech Research acquires Bayer CropScience's state-of-the-art US
ecotoxicology facility in Kansas
-
Californian public to vote on a proposal that requires the labelling of
most foods made with genetically modified ingredients
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Syngenta has signed a global, non-exclusive agreement in which BASF will
license its Clearfield Plus herbicide tolerance technology for sunflowers
to Syngenta
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FMC reports that sales in its Agricultural Products segment were up 10.9%
to $423.6 million in the third quarter of 2012
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Technical committee in India proposes 10 year moratorium on Bt
trials
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Sterilised fruit flies released in Croatia's tangerine
orchards
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Syngenta and Novozymes sign exclusive global marketing and distribution
agreement to commercialise Taegro, a fermented biological fungicide
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Brazilian orange juice exports to the US restarts as growers discontinue
carbendazim use
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New strain of rice blast found
in Australia
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Sales of
American Vanguard (AMVAC) increased by 23% in the third quarter of 2012.
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A survey
involving 495 international researchers has resulted in a list containing
the most important phytopathogenic fungi
-
Syngenta
reports that sales in the third quarter of 2012 increased by 6% at
constant exchange rates
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New CEO appointed at Bayer
CropScience
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Headlines from September 2012 |
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Bayer CropSciences’ CEO, Sandra E Peterson, is to leave the business at
the end of November
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Syngenta is acquiring Pasteuria Bioscience for aggregate payments of $86
million, with additional deferred payments of up to $27 million
-
Syngenta
is to invest up to $85 million in the construction of a hybrid seed and
crop protection production facility in Russia
-
Research
at Rothamsted Research suggests that grain aphids in the UK are becoming
more resistant to pyrethroid insecticides
-
Exports of Indian basmati rice to the US
have been suspended due to the presence of
excessive levels of pesticide residues
-
Syngenta expects the sales for its eight key strategic crops to reach
$25 billion by the end of the decade
-
Syngenta has bid for the Belgian company Devgen, a global leader in
hybrid rice and RNA interference (RNAi) technology
-
FMC Corporation has entered into a research and development
collaboration agreement for a new proprietary fungicide from Isagro
-
Monsanto has reported that net sales for the full fiscal year 2012
were $13.5 billion, a 14% increase over 2011
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BASF is to acquire Becker Underwood, a producer of seed applied
biologicals, for $1.02 billion
-
Sumitomo
Chemical has developed a new fungicide, Prolectus, for control of
diseases in grapevines, stone fruit trees and vegetables and will
launch in Italy
-
A
study conducted by Nomisma has shown that the economic relevance
of azole fungicides in the EU is considerable
-
BASF has received US EPA registration for a new fungicide Zampro
-
Monsanto has pledged up to $3 million to support academic research on
corn rootworm
-
BASF is making an investment of more than €200 million to meet continued
demand for several key fungicides
-
Dow AgroSciences has introduced a new brand and visual identity
-
Monsanto and Complix NV (have entered into a collaboration agreement to
evaluate and develop Alphabody protein technology in the field of
agriculture
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Nufarm's crop protection business, which accounts for 94% of group
revenues, grew by 3% to $2.06 billion in fiscal year 2012
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FMC has expanded its development and distribution agreement with Kumiai
to extend access to pyroxasulfone
-
Dow AgroSciences has launched Powercore in Argentina for the
control of major corn pests. It is the first product approved in Argentina
with five stacked genes
-
The Oregon Court of Appeals has ordered a temporary halt to the state’s
plan to allow GM canola to be planted in parts Oregon
-
Syngenta
is to acquire the DuPont Professional Products insecticide business
-
Bayer CropScience and Mendel Biotechnology have
announced a new multi-year collaboration to jointly identify herbicides
with novel modes of action
-
BASF is expanding its greenhouse facility at its Agricultural Centre in Limburgerhof, Germany
-
Makhteshim Agan has reported that sales for the second quarter of 2012
totaled $783 million, up 8.4%
-
Monsanto Company and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals have formed a strategic
alliance to advance biological technologies in agriculture
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France upholds
its ban on thiamethoxam
-
Syngenta
has received UK approval for its residual herbicide Teridox for
use in oilseed rape
-
Exosect
has received approval for its unique pheromone technology for use on
Grape Vine Moth in
Turkey
-
Cheminova has received approval for the fungicide Authority in
Brazil on several crops
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has acquired a new manufacturing facility in Bangor,
Michigan, US
-
After a re-evaluation of the herbicide linuron, the Canadian Pest
Management Regulatory Authority is proposing to phase out the
sale and use of all linuron products
-
Bayer CropScience plans to establish a new breeding centre in
Western Victoria, Australia that will focus on wheat and oilseeds
-
Nufarm
have acquired access to Starpharma’s Priostar dendrimer
technology to develop innovative crop protection formulations
-
Brett Begemann has been named as Monsanto’s president and chief
commercial officer
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Headlines from July 2012 |
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Sumitomo Chemicals
to distribute Nufarm's products in Italy
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Incotec to treat brassica seeds with
BASF'S seed treatment fungicide Coronet
-
Monsanto has won a patent infringement trial in the US District Court
against DuPont Pioneer
-
Bayer has successfully enforced its Nativo trademark
against the Vietnamese company Viet Duc
-
Dow AgroSciences has recently opened new research facilities in Canada
-
Incotec has announced an agreement that will allow the company to treat
brassica seeds with a BASF fungicide
-
BASF Crop Protection has opened its new technology centre for seed
treatment in Santo Antônio de Posse near São Paulo, Brazil
-
Bayer CropScience has signed an exclusive license agreement which gives
the company worldwide research and development rights to Plant Sensory
Systems’ (PSS) proprietary Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Stress Tolerance
(NUEST) technology in wheat
-
Dow AgroSciences’ Agricultural Sciences segment posted record sales of
$1,676 million for the second quarter of 2012
-
Syngenta reported that during the first half of 2012 its sales increased
by 10%
-
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be donating a grant of £6.4
million to scientists at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
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United Phosphorus Limited
is to acquire the Dutch crop protection company Agrichem
-
The UK’s
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has issued a
draft plan outlining the future of pesticide use in the UK
-
Syngenta appeals against thiamethoxam ban in
France
-
The Irish
Environmental Protection Agency has given approval for a GM blight
resistant potato crop to be tested by Teagasc
-
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation has issued a
certificate of registration for the Certis USA Fungicide Double
Nickel 55
-
Bayer CropScience, the CSIRO and the Australian Grains Research and
Development Corporation have formed a partnership to increase yield in
wheat
-
Due to the strong season in the northern hemisphere, BASF’s Agricultural
Solutions segment posted successful sales results in the second quarter
of 2012. Sales were €1,467 million, up by 21.7% compared with the same
period of last year.
-
FMC’s Agricultural Products segment increased 19.4% to $393.6 million in
the second quarter of 2012
-
Makhteshim Agan has appointed Ignacio Dominguez, current CEO of MAI
Europe, as its chief commercial officer (CCO) and head of the Global
Products and Marketing Division
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Headlines from June 2012 |
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Arysta and Bayer in fluoxastrobin licensing agreement
-
Bayer CropScience has opened
a new European Wheat Breeding Centre in Gatersleben, in Germany
-
Bayer acquires the watermelon and melon seed business of US-based Abbot
and Cobb
-
Monsanto has launched the new glyphosate formulation Roundup Flex
in the UK
-
Exosect's
Exosex OFM mating disruption technology has received registration
for commercial use in Italy
-
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Syngenta’s
seed treatment Vibrance for use on cereals, soybeans and canola
in the US
-
The Chinese Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of
Agriculture (ICAMA) has granted a temporary registration for DuPont’s
fungicide picoxystrobin
-
DuPont to buy a majority share in South African-based Pannar Seeds
-
Monsanto has posted a higher than expected third quarter profit as its
net sales revenue grew 17%
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Sun Gro Horticulture will acquire the Fafard
peat unit from Syngenta's lawn and garden business
-
Bayer CropScience has announced it is to purchase AgraQuest, Inc. for
$425 million plus milestone payments
-
Dow
AgroSciences is now marketing its new blackgrass herbicide in the UK
under the trademark Unite.
-
Syngenta
is to invest $50 million in building a new processing plant for corn and
sunflower seeds in Argentina
-
SynTech
Research has opened new field trials sites in Poland
-
BASF Crop Protection has received US federal registration for its
herbicide Zidua for the control of small-seeded broadleaf weeds
and grasses in corn
-
The Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) is to reevaluate
the environmental risks posed by three neonicotinoid insecticides
-
Syngenta is making a significant investment in the modernisation of its
headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.
-
Syngenta has entered into a barley breeding collaboration with
InterGrain, an Australia-based crop breeding company
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EPA approve BASF's
fungicides Priaxor and Merivon for use in the US
-
Zeraim Gedera to market Syngenta's
seeds and crop protection products in Israel
-
Dow AgroSciences and Agdia
announce agreement to develop and commercialise a new device that
automates the analysis of plants and seeds using immunoassay strips
-
Cheminova report that sales
revenue is by 16% in Q1
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has received US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) approval for a new, dry formulation of Grandevo, the
company’s biological broad-spectrum insecticide/miticide
-
Syngenta has agreed to settle litigation related to the herbicide
atrazine
-
Nufarm is to
establish a new manufacturing facility in Chicago to support growth in
its fungicides, insecticides and seed treatment segments
-
Monsanto is making a $50 million commitment over the next 10 years
to support sustained African agricultural development and growth
-
Marrone Bio Innovations has received US EPA approval for MBI-005,
a unique broad-spectrum selective bioherbicide for use on a variety of
crops, turf and ornamentals
-
Syngenta and long-established local Argentinian wheat breeder Buck
Semillas have formed a partnership to develop new, high-performance
wheat varieties
-
Arysta LifeScience is investing in new projects at its Agricultural
Research and Development Centre in São Paulo
-
DuPont will invest more than $3 million over the next three years to
help smallholder farmers in Ethiopia
-
Arysta LifeScience has opened a new suspension concentrate formulation
plant in Vietnam
-
Cheminova reports that it has had a satisfactory start to 2012 with
revenue up 16% in Q1
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MANA Crop Protection has introduced a new miticide/insecticide based on
abamectin which is an advanced low volatile organic compound (VOC)
formulation
-
Isagro USA has announced two separate distribution arrangements for its
proprietary Trichoderma biorational fungicide
-
Bayer has launched its vine fungicide Flint Max
in Portugal
-
Monsanto introduces BioDirect Technology
-
Syngenta to build a $1 billion business in Africa over the next ten
years
-
UK
Government launches £250 million investment in bioscience research
-
Arysta
adds new uses to its captan label in France
-
EFSA
has ruled that "there is no specific scientific evidence, in terms of
risk to human and animal health or the environment" to support a ban on
MON 810 corn
-
Dow AgroSciences launches
Powercore, a GM corn with a five gene stack to control major
pests in corn
-
Syngenta
Canada has received registration for Endigo, a pre-mix
insecticide for long-lasting control of soybean aphids and bean
leaf beetles
-
Koppert
Biological Systems has reached an agreement to acquire Itaforte
BioProdutos Ltda, pioneers in fungi-based biopesticides in Brazil
-
Krishidhan Seeds, an agbiotech and plant breeding company, and
Hokko Chemical Company have signed an agreement to develop insect
resistant and herbicide tolerant traits in major crops
-
Syngenta and Devgen have announced a six-year global license and
research agreement
-
Australian wheat-breeding companies have access to several new nematode
resistant and tolerant wheat lines released by Agri-Science Queensland
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Headlines from April 2012 |
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Two Blades Foundation licenses TAL
Code technology to Monsanto and Bayer
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SDS Biotech KK extends exclusive benzobicyclon herbicide evaluation agreement with Gowan Company
-
BASF submits its herbicide Engenia
for US approval
-
Gowan to market Nisso's
soybean insecticide Justice in the US
-
Plant Health Care and MANA are to combine PHC’s Harpin
technology with selected MANA fungicides for corn, soybeans, and dry
beans in the US
-
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Syngenta will commercialise Novozymes’ technology JumpStart, a
seed-applied biological which increases phosphate solubility in the soil
-
Dupont
forms distribution alliance in India
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Bayer CropScience and KWS SAAT AG
co-develop herbicide-tolerant sugar beet
-
Monsanto broadens Roundup Ready
Plus platform to provide additional post-emergence herbicide options
-
Valent USA
and Scotts Company enter into a supply agreement
-
Bayer CropScience is introducing Titan Emesto, a liquid
insecticide and fungicide potato seed treatment for protection against
major insect pests and diseases
-
Monsanto’s Seminis brand will be offering two new cucumber varieties
with improved disease resistance growers in the US and Canada
-
Nichino America appoints Engage Agro as distributor for its products in
Canada
-
DuPont opens a $40 million plant genetics research facility in the US
-
Gowan
is to market Otsuka's miticide in Canada
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Headlines from March 2012 |
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Bayer acquires the germplasm assets of ProSoy
Genetics
-
Arysta Lifsciences suspends Midas sales in the
US
-
Valent BioSciences is to open a new biorational facility
-
Makhteshim Agan to fund UK led Septoria
resistance research
-
Dow divests its European Dithane business to
Indofil
-
Sumitomo and Nufarm have
announced new distribution arrangements in Canada and Europe
-
Valent BioSciences Corporation has signed a joint testing
agreement with Pace International
-
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) has introduced a wheat variety in Bangladesh which is tolerant to
the Ug99 strain of stem-rust fungus.
-
Rosetta Green and Bayer CropScience have signed a
licensing agreement that has potential to provide drought tolerance and
improved yield in cotton
-
Monsanto has reported that its net sales increased by 15% for the second
quarter of its fiscal year 2012 compared to 2011
-
BASF has appointed Dr Raman Ramachandran to lead the company’s Crop
Protection division for the Asia Pacific region
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BASF gains approval for Opera on sugarcane in
Brazil
-
Indofil are to construct new manufacturing
facilities
-
Syngenta
has received approval for its
quadruple stacked corn in Argentina
-
BASF Plant
Science will conduct field trials this year with GM potatoes that
are going through the EU approval process
-
Sipcam,
Nihon Nohyaku and Sumitomo Corporation’s subsidiary Sumi Agro
Europe are forming a new strategic alliance in Europe
-
BASF has reached an exclusive supply agreement with Monsanto for
fungicide seed treatments for cotton and soybeans in North America
-
Syngenta has received registration for its plant growth regulator
Palisade 2EC for use on cereal crops in the US
-
Nufarm has reported a net profit after tax of $18 million for the half
year of 2012 (ended 31January 2012)
-
Marrone Bio Innovation has received Canadian approval for the
biofungicide Regalia Maxx for outdoor and greenhouse use
-
Research workers at Wageningen University, Netherlands have reported on
a meta-study on yield comparisons. They say that on a global basis
yields from crops grown organically were, on average, 20% lower than
from crops grown by conventional methods
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Headlines
from February 2012 |
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Plant Impact has entered into an exclusive
agreement with Gowan for the distribution of InCa Prim in France
-
A French judge has ruled
that Monsanto, the suppliers of Lasso (alachlor), did not provide
adequate warnings on the product label
-
Bayer CropScience has decided to integrate the R&D activities of its three
business units Crop Protection, BioScience and Environmental Science
-
Arysta LifeScience has acquired 100% of the shares of Devidayal Sales
Limited (DSL) in India
-
FMC has entered into exclusive technology license and commercialisation
agreements with East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST)
and Shanghai Shengnong Pesticide Co (SSPC)
-
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has received $56
million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help
smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa
-
The EU Agriculture and Rural Development agency has signed an equivalency
agreement with the US Department of Agriculture to jointly promote strong
organic programmes
-
Syngenta has reported that its sales revenue for 2011 increased by 14% to
$13.3 billion, up 12% at constant exchange rates (CER)
-
Bayer has reported that its CropScience subgroup increased sales by 6.2% (Fx & portfolio adj)
-
Bayer has set up a global ‘Bee Care Programme’ to further promote bee
health
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Teagasc is applying for a licence to undertake a series of field studies
using GM potatoes resistant to potato late blight
-
BASF has reported that its agricultural solutions division sales dropped
2.7% to €822 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. Sales for the
full year rose by 3.3% to €4,165 million
-
FMC has signed an exclusive distribution and development agreement with
Consumo em Verde (CEV), Biotecnologia das Plantas, of Portugal for the
patented fungicidal active ingredient blad
-
BASF is to make a $33 million investment to expand its facilities in
Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina.
-
Bayer CropScience and Texas AgriLife Research, US have signed a multi-year
agreement to develop and commercialise improved wheat varieties
-
A new chlorpyrifos formulation, Vulcan, developed and manufactured
by MANA Crop Protection, has received approval from the US EPA
-
FMC’s agrochemical sales rose by 22% to $409.2 million in the fourth
quarter of 2011.
-
Certis USA and Kumiai Chemical Industry have launched a new generation of
bacterial biofungicides based on Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain
D747 (Ba D747).
-
Clariant,
the Swiss based manufacturer of adjuvants and other specialty chemicals,
has announced a repositioning of its crop protection business
-
Dow AgroSciences and BioDuro have entered a three-year, multi-programme discovery
research agreement to generate novel molecules that will be tested
across a variety of crops
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Headlines
from January 2012 |
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BASF
announces that it intends to concentrate its plant biotechnology
activities on the main markets in North and South America and the growth
markets in Asia because of widespread opposition to the technology in
Europe
-
Exosect has received
Spanish regulatory approval for its unique pheromone mating disruption
product, Exosex SPTab, for use in postharvest storage and food
manufacturing facilities
-
The French government
has announced that it will uphold its ban on MON810, an insect resistant
strain of Monsanto’s GM maize
-
DuPont has joined the DROught-Tolerant
Plants (DROPS) Research Consortium and will contribute expertise and a
state-of-the-art modelling platform for maize research
-
Bayer
CropScience has received registration from the US EPA for its TwinLink
technology for cotton in the US
-
BASF Crop
Protection presented the herbicide Engenia, the company’s
next-generation formulation of dicamba at the 65th Annual Meeting of the
Southern Weed Science Society (SWSS)
-
Stockton
Group,
a
global crop protection company,
has received approval for Timorex Gold in Chile for use in grapes
and sugar beet.
-
Monsanto’s
Roundup Ready PLUS Programme will include Makhteshim Agan’s
herbicide Direx 4L (diuron)
-
DuPont
reported tough markets for several of its key businesses for the end of
2011, but said it was agriculture that led the way with
increased demand for seeds in Latin America.
-
A new market research report Seed Treatment Market Trends
and Global Forecasts (2011-2016) has been published by Markets and
Markets
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Exosect has announced that its Exosex CM mating disruption
technology has now received registration for commercial use in France
-
The European crime
intelligence agency Europol has issued a warning that organised crime
groups in Europe are behind a growth in the trade of illegal and
counterfeit pesticides
-
Certis
USA has introduced a high potency codling moth virus that will be
commercially available to apple and pear growers
-
The US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved AgLogic’s
registration of Meymik 15G
-
BASF has
announced that the value of its crop protection pipeline has increased
by €400 million to €2.8 billion
-
Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. has
purchased the crop protection assets of the global carbaryl business from
Bayer CropScience. Bayer retains the non-crop business
-
The
Makhteshim Agan Group (MAI) says it has won a fipronil patent infringement
case brought against it by BASF and Bayer CropScience in April 2010
-
Clariant has announced the opening of a new crop protection laboratory in
India
-
Arysta
LifeScience has introduced two new products, Swirski Plus and Spical Plus for
integrated pest management in Japan
-
Felleskjöpet
Agri SA
has opened a new seed processing plant in Holstad, Norway that will treat
around 25,000 tons of seed per year
-
The
Two Blades Foundation (2Blades)
has entered a non-exclusive license agreement with Syngenta
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Headlines
from December 2011 |
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FMC has acquired
the fungicides iprodione and prochloraz from Bayer
CropScience for agricultural use outside of Europe
-
Monsanto has had a good start to its fiscal year 2012 and has reported
that its first quarter net sales increased 33% over the same period in
the previous year to $2.4 billion
-
French
company Arkema and Certis have entered into an exclusive joint
development and distribution agreement in Europe for Paladin, a
pre-plant fumigant
-
Incotec
and Eurofins STA Laboratories (ESTA) have agreed to join forces to
promote ESTA’s seed health testing capabilities to the European seed
market
-
Monsanto is suing six US seed companies acquired by DuPont, accusing
them of not paying royalties.
-
Dow AgroSciences and Gowan have announced a new development and
marketing license agreement that will allow Gowan to license the novel
active fungicide meptyldinocap
-
Nufarm Americas has received
US
federal registration for Spirato 480 FS seed treatment
-
Bayer CropScience and Performance Plants have
entered into a research and commercial license agreement, giving Bayer
exclusive rights for PPI's Heat and Drought Tolerance Technology (HDT) in
cotton.
-
Certis USA has entered into a global license agreement with Montana State
University (MSU) and Montana BioAgriculture to develop and commercialise
new plant disease control technologies based on Bacillus mycoides
isolate BmJ
-
DuPont and Rosetta Green, have
entered into a strategic research agreement to identify drought
tolerance genes in corn and soybeans
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Chemtura AgroSolutions will assume
the marketing and sales of the
insecticide Diamond in 2012
-
Nufarm has announced that it
has received US EPA registration for its Spirato 480 FS seed treatment
-
The
European Commission has decided not to re-register the herbicide
acetochlor. It has instructed EU member states to withdraw approvals by
23 June 2012
-
Arysta
LifeScience has received approval for the herbicide clethodim in Europe
and the removal of the restriction for use on sugar beet only
-
Bayer CropScience has announced that settlement agreements with US
long-grain rice growers involved with biotech rice litigation have now
taken effect
-
BASF has
granted Cheminova exclusive distribution rights and use of the trademark
for the fungicide
Sovran
in the US
-
Valent BioSciences Corporation (VBC) has been granted EPA registration
for BioNik, a plant growth regulator for use on corn seed
-
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted registration
for Syngenta’s herbicide Zemax
-
Fertiliser manufacturer Coromandel International has increased its stake
in Sabero Organics
-
Syngenta has announced that it has signed a commercial agreement with
Quad County Corn Processors to
supply the Iowa ethanol plant with Enogen grain in 2012
-
Agrochemical output in China rose 15.7% in the first nine months of
2011, compared to the first three quarters of 2010
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from November 2011 |
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DuPont and BioLeap enter research
collaboration
-
US
EPA have granted approval to Syngenta for CruiserMaxx Advanced
insecticide /fungicide seed treatment for use on soybeans
-
Bayer CropScience has
established a European Wheat Breeding Centre in the Gatersleben
Biotechpark in Germany
-
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The US
EPA has approved certain registrations for Amvac’s PCNB product line for
major commercial uses
-
Bayer
CropScience announced that it has filed an
additional
patent
infringement lawsuit in the US District Court against Dow AgroSciences
-
Valent
USA has appointed Andy Lee as its new executive vice president and chief
operating officer
-
Nufarm
will market three new herbicides in Australia early next year
-
Nufarm has
expanded its involvement in seeds by buying Seeds 2000
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A new licensing agreement will allow
Bayer Crop Science to access Stoller’s technology for plant performance
-
BASF expects sales for its crop protection
business to increase by 50% to €6 billion by 2020
-
Certis
Europe has been appointed distributor for Kumiai’s fungicide Japica
in Spain
-
The UK’s
Crop Protection Association has hosted an event to mark the tenth
anniversary of the Voluntary Initiative (VI).
-
Certis USA has announced that PFR-97 microbial insecticide has
been registered by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
-
Bayer CropScience and South Dakota State University (SDSU) in the US,
have signed a non-exclusive agreement for wheat breeding and germplasm
access
-
Sumitomo Chemical Company is to acquire the ethaboxam fungicide business
from LG Life Sciences
-
Dow AgroSciences has received its first registration for sulfoxaflor
in Korea
-
DuPont and Evogene have announced a multiyear collaboration to improve
resistance to soybean rust
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Headlines
from October 2011 |
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Syngenta report that sales in the third quarter in 2011 were up 21% (16%
at constant exchange rates) at $2.7 billion
- South African Competition
Tribunal refuses to grant approval to DuPont to allow its seed business
Pioneer to purchase a majority shareholding in Pannar Seeds
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BASF Crop Protection
has received approval in France, Germany and the UK for products
to be used on cereals containing the new fungicidal active ingredient
Xemium
-
Bayer CropScience and
NARDI in Romania have signed a license agreement that gives Bayer
access to winter wheat germplasm
-
Marrone
Bio Innovations (MBI) has announced that
US EPA
has approved its latest product, MBI-203, which will be branded as
Grandevo
-
Makhteshim
Agan Group (MAI) has announced that 60% of its shares have now been
acquired by China National Agrochemical Corporation
-
BASF’s Agricultural Solutions division posted a 9% increase in sales to
€908 million in the third quarter of 2011
-
Syngenta
has launched a new website to stimulate and accelerate collaborations
with external parties for the development of new, integrated solutions
for agriculture
-
Indian scientists have joined 15 other nations in the initiative to
decode the wheat genome
-
DuPont’s agriculture segment, which includes both agrochemicals and seed
business, posted a 41% increase in sales to $1.368 billion in the third
quarter of 2011
-
Three
Japanese agrochemical companies have bought shares in the Brazilian
manufacturer Iharabras SA
-
Chemtura has reported that
net sales of its AgroSolutions business
increased by $12 million or 13% to $105 million in the third quarter of
2011
-
Cargill and BASF Plant Science are to co-develop a new dietary source of
EPA/DHA
|
- Bayer
CropScience has strengthened its seed platform in Europe through the
acquisition of the Raps GbR oilseed rape business
-
DuPont and US
biopesticide company AgraQuest have signed an agreement for the
development and distribution of a new biopesticide
-
BASF Plant
Science has applied for EU approval for Fortuna, its ‘genetically
optimised’ potato
-
Bayer CropScience has
granted Koppert Biological Systems exclusive worldwide rights for a
biological fungicide
-
The
Ministry of Agriculture in Argentina has approved Syngenta’s triple corn
stack Bt11 x MIR162 x GA21 for cultivation in the country
-
Marrone
Bio Innovations has signed an exclusive research and development deal
with Scotts Miracle-Gro to develop green pesticides for the consumer
lawn and garden market.
-
Amvac
Chemical Corporation has acquired the international assets of the cotton
defoliant product tribufos from Bayer CropScience
-
Dow Chemical’s Agricultural Sciences reported record third quarter sales
of $1.205 billion, up 27% compared with the same period last year
-
AMVAC
Chemical Corporation has acquired the rights to two recently issued US
patents from Wisconcin-based Summerdale Incorporated
-
Sales gains in all regions boosted FMC’s agricultural products’ revenue
by 24% to $382.1 million in the third quarter of 2011
-
Makhteshim
Agan Group (MAI) has announced that it is establishing a new division
that will focus on innovative technologies for the agricultural market
-
Bayer’s CropScience subgroup raised sales by 2.8% (Foreign exchange and
portfolio adjusted 9.4%) to €1,379 million in the third quarter of 2011
|
Headlines
from September 2011 |
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Bayer CropScience’s strategy for future business growth was presented by
CEO Sandra E Peterson at the company’s recent annual press conference in
Monheim, Germany
-
Scientists from Bayer CropScience and the research institute VIB-UGent (www.vib.be),
Belgium, are collaborating to develop crops with higher yields and
improved tolerance to stresses such as drought or soil salinity
-
Arysta LifeScience is restructuring its Latin American business unit to
include Mexico and Central America
-
Bayer CropScience has been granted exclusive worldwide license rights to
the rice breeding programme of the Brazilian company Fazenda Ana Paula
-
Valent USA and Isagro have announced that the fungicide Domark
has received registration from the US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) for use on field corn, popcorn and seed corn
-
Pasteuria Bioscience has strengthened its relationship with Syngenta by
entering into a licensing and distribution agreement for its existing
and future turf grass products
-
Lonza has announced a new manufacturing agreement with Pasteuria
Bioscience
-
Bayer CropScience and the Chinese Oil Crops Research Institute (OCRI)
have entered an agreement to conduct a joint research in oilseed rape
-
Monsanto has acquired Beeologics, an international company which
researches and develops naturally-occurring processes to provide
targeted pest and disease control
-
United Phosphorus Ltd (UPL) has entered an agreement with Japan-based
Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha (ISK) for the production of certain agrochemicals
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GfK
Kynetec values the
global non-crop market
at over
$21 billion at end user level
and rising
-
Monsanto has reported net
sales of $2.2 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011 and net
sales for the fiscal year of $11.8 billion both better than the company
had forecast
-
FMC
Corporation has signed an exclusive development and distribution
agreement for Marrone Bio Innovation’s (MBI) Regalia Maxx
biofungicide in Latin America
-
Certis Europe and Futureco Bioscience have reached
agreement on a strategic alliance between the two companies in the
Spanish and Portuguese markets
-
The UK crop protection, amenity and agronomy
business Agrovista is entering a strategic alliance with Openfield
-
The Department of
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has approved the UK’s first
GM wheat trial, which will be conducted by the Rothamsted Research
Institute
-
Syngenta
has failed in its bid to temporarily force Bunge Ltd to accept its
Agrisure Viptera GM corn until a lawsuit over the issue is resolved
-
Lonza has announced a new
manufacturing agreement with Pasteuria Bioscience
-
GrassRoots Biotechnology
and Monsanto have agreed to extend their existing three-year research
collaboration for an additional two years
-
Cheminova and Chemifert
SAL have signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture company,
Agrinova SAL that will distribute crop protection products in the MENA
region
-
Nufarm
Limited has reported that it has generated a statutory headline loss of
$49.5 million for the 12 months to 31 July 2011
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Syngenta,
North America has filed a complaint in the US District Court against
Bunge.
Syngenta
alleges Bunge is attempting to block the legal merchandising of the
Agrisure Viptera trait for corn, which was launched in
compliance with US regulatory requirements
-
FMC
has announced that it expects registration for its herbicide
Anthem
in early 2012
-
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has
issued an order to DuPont directing the company to immediately halt the
sale, use or distribution of the herbicide
Imprelis
-
Bayer CropScience and Monsanto
have entered an agreement that will give soybean growers access to a
revolutionary biological mode of action to help protect their crop from
nematodes and a range of insect pests
-
The first
report of a failure of
Bt
genetics to control corn rootworm has been reported in north eastern
Iowa
-
Syngenta and Mato Grosso Farming Research Support
Foundation (Fundação MT) have entered a distribution agreement for
cotton seeds in Brazil
-
FMC’s
Agricultural Products Group has entered into two exclusive agreements
covering the global development and supply of Chr. Hansen’s biological
products
-
Dow
AgroSciences and MS Technologies are collaborating on a submission to
the US Department of Agriculture for the approval of the
first-ever, three-gene herbicide-tolerant soybean
- An
international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of a Chinese
cabbage variety of Brassica rapa, a close relative of oilseed
rape
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Dow
AgroSciences is to market a new blackgrass herbicide in the UK for the
2011/12 season. The product containing pyroxsulam and
flupyrsulfuron-methyl, was approved in June this year
-
Bayer
CropScience has received its first registration for its new fungicidal
seed treatment product Emesto (penflufen) in the UK
-
Incotec, the Netherlands-based seed technology company, has launched a
new business in Angers to serve the French market
-
BASF
presented its new fungicides
Merivon and
Priaxor
at the recent American Phytopathological Society (APS) annual conference
-
Dow
AgroSciences is to expand and relocate its corn research station in
Arlington, Wisconsin
-
Certis USA has selected Engage Agro, Ontario to
distribute CYD-X, its insecticidal virus, in Canada
-
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA)
has
announced that it
is
to suspend the registration of all agricultural uses of the herbicide
diuron
-
The APVMA has announced that it proposes to suspend dimethoate products
as an interim regulatory action while it completes further assessments
on the insecticide
-
Arysta LifeScience has received registrations in Mexico and Guatemala
for Midas (iodomethane)
its
broad spectrum soil fumigant
-
Insecticides India Ltd plans to invest about Rs 70 crore over the
next two years on expansion
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Police shut down
the Sydney offices of Greenpeace after activists destroyed a GM wheat
trial
-
Makhteshim Agan Industries has announced that its deal with ChemChina
has been approved at a Shareholders' General Meeting
-
Researchers have established that ground beetles reduce the amount of
weed seeds in the soil
-
The
US Government Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating
Monsanto’s incentive programmes for glyphosate
-
Dow
AgroSciences is expanding its wheat portfolio with its recent
acquisition of assets from Northwest Plant Breeding Company
-
The
Makhteshim Agan Group is to combine the activities of two of its
US-based environmental solutions affiliates
-
Detergent-like compounds called saponins are being evaluated by the US
Department of Agriculture (USDA) for their potential to help protect
plants from insect attack
-
AgraQuest Inc has announced that its fungicide
Sonata has been approved for use on apples, onions and
strawberries in Brazil
-
Makhteshim Agan
Industries has opened a new formulation plant in India
-
Incotec and Plant Health Care have announced that they have signed a
nonexclusive, multi-year agreement to
develop
Myconate in combination
with Incotec’s proprietary seed treatment packages
-
Syngenta reported
that its first half year sales were up 14% to $7.7 billion
-
The Donald Danforth Plant
Science Centre has entered into a nonexclusive sublicense
agreement with Dow AgroSciences to access gene expression technology
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Sipcam and Sumitomo Corporation have announced a new alliance that will
develop, market and distribute agrochemical products throughout Europe
-
Vandals in Germany have destroyed two
experimental sites growing genetically modified (GM) wheat and potatoes
-
The
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published updated guidance on
the post-market environmental monitoring of GM plants
-
United Phosphorus
Ltd has acquired a 51% stake in DVA Agro Brazil
-
FMC’s
Agricultural Products Group has entered into a joint venture agreement
to form a new Argentine agrochemical distribution company named Ruralco
Soluciones
-
The US EPA has approved spinosad for use as an
onion seed treatment and the product will now be made available by
Syngenta as a component of FarMore F1500
-
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
has granted registration approval for Syngeta’s
Agrisure 3122 trait stack
-
DuPont is reportedly planning to recall its
herbicide Imprelis
amid multiple class action lawsuits alleging that the product is
damaging and killing thousands of trees throughout the US
-
DuPont has reported that sales in its Agriculture
& Nutrition were up 10% to $3 billion in the second quarter
-
Syngenta has received import
approval from the Japanese and Mexican regulatory authorities for the
Agrisure Viptera 3220 trait stack
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BASF
and
EMBRAPA, the leading Brazilian agricultural research institution, have
signed a technical cooperation agreement
-
Bayer CropScience has announced that
Jim Blome is its new
president/CEO and head of
Crop Protection for the North American region
-
Makhteshim Agan UK
has launched a new potato blight fungicide based on dimethomorph
-
Rothamsted Research,
has applied for permission from the government to begin a trial with GM
wheat
-
Makhteshim Agan has requested
voluntary cancellation of all of its dicofol registrations in the US
-
Willowood USA
has received EPA registration for Propanil 4SC
-
Dow AgroSciences is expanding and
relocating its Central Iowa Field Research sites to Ames, Iowa, to
accommodate corn and soybean breeding programmes
-
Makhteshim
Agan Industries has reached an agreement with Isagro for the
exclusive license of the active ingredient kiralaxyl
-
Cheminova has acquired the remaining 25% in the Stähler group
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Certis
Europe has announced that it has appointed a new chief executive officer
-
UK-based
pest management company, Exosect has raised additional funding to
enable the company to introduce the second phase of its commercial
strategy
-
Bayer
CropScience and the privately-owned French company RAGT Semences have
signed a license and cooperation agreement for the improvement of wheat
-
Bayer
CropScience has announced that
Poncho/VOTiVO
will be available on soybeans and cotton for the 2012 growing season
-
Syngenta has launched
Phoenix, a
new seed brand in the US
-
Syngenta has received US registration for
Besiege
an insecticide for use on cotton, tobacco and pastures
-
Monsanto and Amvac Chemical Corporation have entered an agreement
that broadens Monsanto's
Roundup Ready PLUS weed management to
include Amvac’s herbicide Impact
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Sumitomo Chemical is increasing its stake in Nufarm
-
Dow Agrosciences is investing
$14 million to expand its sulfoxaflor manufacturing plant
-
Bayer
CropScience has successfully enforced its European patent for imidacloprid
against a number of agrochemical suppliers
-
The UK and
German regulatory authorities have now developed a proposal for the
criteria used to identify endocrine disrupters of very high concern
-
Syngenta plans to
construct a new state-of-the-art biotechnology research facility adjacent
to its existing research campus in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
-
Makhteshim Agan
Industries (MAI) has launched a number of products containing the active
ingredient fipronil, a broad spectrum insecticide
-
Syngenta has
received approval for the cultivation of its MIR162 trait, Agrisure
Viptera, in Argentina
-
The Indian fertiliser manufacturer Coromandel International
is acquiring a 42% stake in the crop protection company Sabero Organics
-
Cheminova has reported that its revenue for Q1 2011
was
up 14%
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AgraQuest is launching its
biofungicide Serenade in Greece.
BASF has
exclusive distribution rights for the product in the European market
-
Exosect has
signed a collaborative agreement with Sylvan Bio that covers the
development of an entomopathogenic fungi with Exosect’s delivery
system Entostat, for the control of grain store pests
-
Bayer CropScience has opened its
new Seed Treatment Application Centre in São Paulo, Brazil
-
DuPont and
Biotique Systems have entered into a research alliance to
accelerate genetic discovery in agricultural crops
-
Plant Impact
has reinforced its relationship with Arysta LifeSciences by entering
into two new commercial agreements
-
The US
EPA has granted registration for DuPont’s insecticide
Prevathon
-
Gustavo Vasques has been named vice
president of Crop Protection for Sumitomo Chemical Latin America
-
Sumitomo Chemical is to build a new production line for its herbicide
flumioxazin in Oita, Japan
-
Mitsui Chemicals Agro has acquired a 10% stake in Sotus International,
an agrochemical business based in Thailand
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Makhteshim Agan is to acquire DuPont's global non-mixture diuron
business
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A new non-selective
herbicide Alion (indaziflam) from Bayer
CropScience has been granted US EPA approval
-
Dow
AgroSciences have
reported that its first quarter sales
to a
record level $1.6 billion, up 17%
-
Gowan
is to
develop and
market
SDS
Biotech's herbicide
benzobicyclon for the US rice market
-
Dow
AgroSciences
Refuge Advanced
powered by SmartStax
has received registration from the US EPA
-
BASF Crop
is to sell its products directly to customers in the Middle East and
Nile regions
-
DuPont’s Agriculture and Nutrition segment achieved sales of $3.8
billion in the first quarter, up 18% to $586 million
-
Valent BioSciences Corporation is to construct a new state-of-the-art
fermentation manufacturing facility in Osage, Iowa
-
BASF Plant Science has assumed ownership for Modena, the
genetically enhanced amylopectin starch potato developed by AVEBE
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Syngenta's first quarter sales
have exceeded $4 billion
-
The
European Parliament's environment committee
has
voted in favour of the
proposal to give member states a choice of whether to ban cultivation of
GM crops on their territory
-
Syngenta
Seedcare has launched
Cruiser Maxx
Sugarbeets in the US, the first
insecticide/
fungicide seed treatment combination
for sugar beet
-
Sales of the Bayer CropScience subgroup climbed by 15.6% in the first
quarter compared with the previous year to €2.257 billion
-
Researchers have found populations of
Canada fleabane in southwestern Ontario that are resistant to glyphosate
-
Bayer has licensed its proprietary herbicide tolerance technology,
LibertyLink, to DuPont’s subsidiary seed business Pioneer Hi-Bred
for use in canola hybrids
-
Monsanto and
US-based
Atlas Venture have entered an alliance to explore investment
opportunities
-
Interfarm
UK has entered an agreement to distribute the herbicide Warrant (fenoxaprop-p-ethyl)
on behalf of Bayer CropScience
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2011 |
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Arysta LifeScience has acquired a majority shareholding in the FES
Group, a distributor of agrochemicals in Russia
-
BASF and Evolva Holding SA have signed a
joint research agreement for the design of novel and optimised
biosynthesis routes for selected natural products with crop protection
potential
-
Bayer CropScience is intending to sell its manufacturing plant located
in Norwich, UK as a going concern
-
AgraQuest, the US-based biopesticide business, has raised $17.7 million
in a financing round that will further its efforts to develop and market
innovative products
-
Syngenta’s cereal herbicide Sierra (flucarbazone) has been
granted Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registration
-
Bayer is decommissioning its MIC production units in Institute, US
-
Bayer CropScience is to purchase US-based Hornbeck Seed Company
-
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted approval for
the Agrisure Viptera 3220 trait stack
-
BASF and Monsanto have announced a new agreement to collaborate on
the advancement of dicamba tolerant cropping systems
-
Bayer CropScience will be the exclusive distributor of
Chemtura's
seed treatment products in China.
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Bayer CropScience and KeyGene, have entered into an exclusive trait
development agreement
-
The European Commission’s Standing Committee on the Food Chain and
Animal Health voted in favour of the inclusion of dazomet in Annex I of
Directive 91/414EEC
-
Syngenta has signed a distribution agreement with Marrone Bio
Innovations for exclusive distribution rights in the Europe, Africa,
Middle East region for Marrone’s bio-fungicide, Regalia
-
Chemtura AgroSolutions, has introduced two Rancona seed
treatments formulated for soybeans
-
United Phosphorus (UPL) has acquired a 50% stake in Sipcam Isagro Brasil
from
Isagro
-
An alternative mode of action for herbicide tolerance is being
co-developed by Bayer CropScience and Syngenta
-
BioLeap has entered into a research collaboration with Syngenta to apply
its molecular-design technology to the discovery of crop
protection products
-
Arysta Lifescience has acquired a majority interest in the Mumbai-based
company Devidayal Sales Limited (DSL)
-
Bayer CropScience has opened an expanded seed research laboratory in
Singapore
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2011 |
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Syngenta is to integrate its crop protection and seed businesses by the
end of 2012
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Gowan Company has received
Californian registration for Scorpion 35SL an insecticide
for broad-spectrum insect control in cucurbits, fruiting vegetables,
brassicas, potatoes, grapes and leafy vegetables
-
BASF has
launched two new potato blight fungicides in the UK based on Initium
-
Syngenta’s new wheat
fungicide, Seguris, has now been officially approved in the UK
-
The National Biosafety Technical Commission (CTNBio) in Brazil has
granted approval for
Bayer's
TwinLink
technology for cotton
-
FMC Corporation has received full registration for the insecticide
Beleaf 50SG (flonicamid) for both the US and Canada
-
Nufarm Americas and Sumitomo Chemical Company’s affiliate Valent
intend to form a strategic alliance in Mexico
-
DuPont plans to invest more than $50 million over five years to expand
its biotech soybean research and development programme
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Syngenta sales for 2010 were
up 6% to $11.6 billion. EBITA was up 3% to $2.5 billion
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USDA have authorised
the planting of Genuity Roundup Ready sugar beet for spring 2011
with certain conditions
-
Arysta LifeScience has created a new subsidiary in Kiev, Ukraine
-
Makhteshim
Agan UK has launched its first cereal growth regulator, Optimus, an
optimised formulation of trinexapac-ethyl
-
Monsanto has acquired Divergence Inc. , a St Louis-based biotechnology
research and development company
-
Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd (SCC) is to restructure its crop protection
business in Latin America
-
Bayer CropScience plans to construct a new greenhouse facility at its
North American headquarters for about $20 million
-
Gowan Company has acquired a majority share in Agro Technology,
S.A. located in Santiago, Chile
-
Syngenta has received full deregulation for its corn amylase trait
in
the US
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Global
regulatory affairs consultancy Rivendell International has recently
opened its fifth subsidiary in Japan
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The
organophosphate insecticide methamidophos, commonly used on rice, is to
be phased out in Brazil
-
Willowood USA
has received Californian approval for two post patent crop
protection herbicides Oxyflo 2EC and
Oxyflo 4SC
-
Valent has signed an exclusive agreement with Nippon Soda Co to
supply and distribute tebufenozide for the North American forestry
markets
-
Andermatt Biocontrol and Certis USA have entered into an agreement to
develop and market new granulovirus insecticides for the NAFTA region
-
Isagro S.p.A. is
restructuring its business to refocus on researching and developing new
molecules
-
Bayer
CropScience UK will be marketing the cereal fungicide bixafen as
Aviator 235 Xpro on wheat. The barley product will be marketed
as Siltra Xpro.
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US Department of
Agriculture has deregulated Roundup Ready alfalfa in
the US
Certis Europe has
been appointed as the primary European distributor for the soil
nematicide/insecticide Mocap
BASF
has been granted the exclusive rights to develop and commercialise
the herbicide pyroxasulfone for corn, soybeans, wheat and sunflower in
the US and Canada
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Syngenta has announced that the National Biosafety Committee
(CTNBio) in Brazil has approved its triple corn stack Bt11 x MIR162 x
GA21 for cultivation
-
The
US EPA has granted approval to DuPont for three new herbicides,
Perspective, Streamline and Viewpoint based on
aminocyclopyrachlor
-
Syngenta
Philippines has invested $8 million to put up a state-of-the-art seed
corn seed processing plant
-
DuPont has reported
fourth quarter sales in 2010 of $1.5 billion, up 13% due to higher
volumes
-
Isagro and Chemtura
AgroSolutions have finalised a joint venture in which they will share
investments in innovative research
-
Bayer
CropScience is to close certain manufacturing facilities dedicated to
carbamate chemistries in Institute, West Virginia, US and is shutting
down its Woodbine, Georgia, formulation facility
-
BASF UK has
launched a new
emulsifiable
concentrate formulation of epoxiconazole
for the 2011 season
-
Dow AgroSciences UK has launched Spitfire a new broadleaved weed
herbicide for use in cereal crops
-
Certis Europe has entered into a partnership with US-based Trécé Inc and
has been appointed distributor for their mating disruption
product range Cidetrak
-
Brazil has
planted record levels of GM crops for the 2010/11 harvest
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Koor Industries Ltd has reached agreement with ChemChina over the Chinese
company’s purchase of a stake in Makhteshim Agan
-
Monsanto’s net sales
increased 8% in the company’s first quarter to $1.8 billion. Gross profit
for the total company increased 11%
-
Syngenta has
closed the deal to acquire Monsanto’s global hybrid sunflower seeds
activities
-
Dow
AgroSciences has announced the construction of a new Seeds Research and
Development expansion in Olivia, Minnesota, US
-
Bayer
CropScience is suing Dow AgroSciences in a federal court the US alleging
infringement of a patent for herbicide-resistant crops
-
Bayer
CropScience, US has finalised a licensing agreement with Heads Up Plant
Protectants Inc to access the Heads Up seed treatment
-
Arysta LifeScience
will distribute a number of products from Cheminova in the Czech Republic
and Slovakia
-
Bayer
CropScience has entered into a five year collaboration with Israel-based
Evogene Ltd to accelerate the development and introduction of improved
wheat varieties
-
In the US, Bayer
CropScience has reached a licensing agreement with NUtech Ventures for
joint research to improve wheat crops
-
Researchers in the US
have mapped and characterised a gene Sr35 resistant to the stem rust race
known as Ug99
-
Syngenta has granted Pioneer Hi-Bred a non-exclusive, global licence to
the corn rootworm trait MIR604 (Agrisure)
-
Arysta LifeScience has
entered a partnership agreement and an equity position with Novon
Protecta, a crop protection distributor in the Eastern Free State
region of South Africa
-
Sumitomo
Chemical and Nufarm have reached a toll manufacturing agreement in
Australia as part of their ongoing cooperation programme
- The
potato starch manufacturer AVEBE (www.avebe.com)
and BASF Plant Science have entered a research and development alliance
in plant biotechnology
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Cibus Global
is collaborating
with
Rotam
to offer farmers a more environmentally friendly, single pass weed
control system for canola
-
Bayer CropScience and
BASF Plant Science have announced a long-term collaboration agreement to
improve rice productivity through plant biotechnology
-
BASF’s fungicide Vivando has
received full registration from the US EPA and the California Board of
Pesticide Regulation
-
Monsanto has
announced details of nine projects which have moved forward in the
company’s R&D programme
-
New GlyTol
glyphosate-tolerant technology, a proprietary trait from Bayer
CropScience, will be commercially available to US cotton growers in 2011
-
Novozymes, a
global leader in enzyme technology,
has acquired EMD/Merck
Crop BioScience from Merck KgaA
-
BASF and NOD Apiary
Products have released the first results from official registration
trials conducted in Europe to control the parasitic varroa destructor
mite
-
The EU will not renew
its 29.9% glyphosate tariff on Chinese glyphosate
-
South African
activists say they have successfully persuaded regulators to block the
bid by Pioneer Hi-Bred, to buy South Africa's largest seed company,
Pannar Seed
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Bayer CropScience has
recently acquired the wheat breeding programmes from two Ukrainian
companies
-
Bayer CropScience has divested
the insecticidal active ingredients fenamiphos, ethoprophos and
tebupirimfos to Amvac
-
United Phosphorus Limited (UPL) has acquired Tennessee-based RiceCo LLC,
US along with its subsidiaries
-
Sumitomo Chemical
has expanded its Indian operations for crop protection products by
acquiring a 100% shareholding in New Chemi Industries
-
Incotec and FBSciences, Inc.
have reached a global agreement to test, develop and commercialise new
seed treatment and coating technologies for the seed industry
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Bayer CropScience has
acquired a product from Exosect, Winchester, UK for the control of
varroa mites
-
Plant Health Care has
announced that it has signed another research agreement to evaluate
Harpin protein as a foliar spray in combination with a number of
Syngenta’s major products
-
A novel biofungicide,
Regalia from US-based Marrone Bio Innovations, has been has been
registered for use in Turkey on greenhouse tomatoes
-
US-based FBSciences has strengthened its position
as a life sciences company by launching a new plant protection division
-
Syngenta has
assumed full ownership of GreenLeaf Genetics.
-
A US federal judge
has ordered the destruction of plantings of genetically modified sugar
beet developed by Monsanto
-
Makhteshim Agan (MAI)
has made two strategic acquisitions, Ingenieria Industrial SA de CV (BravoAg)
in Mexico, and JK Inc in Korea
-
BASF Crop Protection
division has opened a new representative office in Lusaka, Zambia
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Makhteshim Agan has
reported that its third quarter 2010 sales valued at $533.1 million were
up 22.3% compared with $435.9 million in the corresponding period of
2009
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Sumitomo Chemical
has set up a direct
sale operation for its crop protection products in Vietnam
-
Enigma Marketing Research
has
produced a new report, New Off-Patent/Generic Agrochemicals - post
2011
-
Gowan Company has
reached an agreement with Dow AgroSciences to acquire the rights to the
insecticide M-Pede and the herbicide Scythe
-
Crop Microclimate Inc and Certis USA ,a leading
biopesticide company, have entered into agreements to develop and market
new products
-
Cheminova Inc has received
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registration for its
insecticide
Fyanon Plus ULV
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Scientists at UK-based CBio have developed a biological product
that could potentially be used to directly reduce the amount of nitrogen
and other fertilisers used by arable farmers
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2010 |
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Dow AgroSciences and Viamet Pharmaceuticals have entered into a
crop protection research, option and license agreement to evaluate the
potential use of Metallophile Technology
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Monsanto Company has
introduced its new weed management platform to deal with weeds in the
absence or presence of glyphosate-resistance
-
The Public Security
Bureau in Nantong City, China, recently announced the successful raid of
an underground plant which produced $5 million worth of illegal
chlorantraniliprole
-
BASF and Monsanto have
made significant progress toward launching next generation dicamba-based
weed control systems for soybeans and cotton
-
Bayer CropScience has
received a new registration from the US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) for its spirotetramat-containing insecticides Movento and
Ultor
-
Dow AgroSciences has
announced the allowance of its US patent application for crop plants
that contain one of the company’s new class of herbicide tolerant traits
-
Monsanto reported
increased sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010. However,
overall sales for the year dropped 10% to $10.5 billion
-
China National
Chemical (ChemChina),
a Chinese state owned company, is
negotiating to buy
Makhteshim Agan Industries
The French contract
research organisation (CRO) Staphyt is continuing to expand its network
of field station facilities in Belgium, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia,
Spain and France
Dow
AgroSciences has submitted the global joint-review dossier for
sulfoxaflor insecticide
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BASF Plant Science and Precision BioSciences have entered into a
collaborative agreement to create site-specific genome modifications in
plants
-
Syngenta Asia Pacific
has officially opened its new research and development facility in
Singapore
-
Monsanto has secured two new GM
approvals in Latin America
-
Becker Underwood has
acquired Biological Control Products, Durban, South Africa.
-
Arysta LifeScience has
received registrations for iodomethane (methyl iodide) in Mexico and
Morocco
-
Arysta LifeScience
North America has received approval from the US EPA for its strobilurin
fungicide Evito for use on wheat and sweet corn
-
Bayer
CropScience’s Nunhems subsidiary has opened a new vegetable seed
processing facility in the US
-
BASF has received
approval for its herbicide active ingredient Kixor (saflufenacil)
to be used on soybeans
-
Dossiers for the
approval of two new fungicide active ingredients, fluxapyroxad and
penflufen, have been voted through as complete by the EU Standing
Committee for the Food Chain and Animal Health
-
Arysta LifeScience Corporation has signed an agreement with Japan-based
Asahi Chemicals to distribute and market nitrophenol-based plant growth
regulator (PGR) Atonik
-
Agroqualità, a Sipcam-Oxon Group company, has acquired Monsanto’s seed
production site located in Lodi, in the southern agricultural area
of Milan.
-
Syngenta has reported
that its sales in the third quarter of 2010 increased by 11% at constant
exchange rates.
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2010 |
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Nufarm has reported a
63% drop in its full year profit and a decrease in sales of 19% after a
difficult 12 months of trading
-
Certis has taken over the marketing of the imazalil-based potato
fungicide Fungazil 100 SL from BASF in the UK
-
Danish scientists
have called for international action to fight the escalating threat of
wheat rust
-
Europe's farm
ministers have rejected the controversial EU proposal allowing member
states to make their own decisions on whether or not to ban GM crops
-
Plant Impact has
started field trials in Brazil to test its technologies targeting
calcium and nitrogen in plants
-
Marrone Bio
Innovations has submitted a new bioinsecticide to the US (EPA)
-
Germains Seed Technology has signed an exclusive agreement to develop
and market Plant Health Care’s harpin proteins globally as a seed
treatment for sugar beets
-
Chromatin Inc has
extended its research and commercial license agreement with Syngenta
Biotechnology for the use of Chromatin’s proprietary gene stacking
technology on corn and soybeans
-
Monsanto
and San Diego-based Illumina have announced that
they have made good progress in sequencing the cotton genome
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Six key UK farming
and food chain organisations have joined forces in urging the UK
coalition Government not to scrap or weaken the role of two key
committees responsible for providing independent advice on pesticide
issues
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Bayer CropScience’s
vegetable seed business Nunhems is to invest €12 million in the
expansion and modernisation of its research centre in Leudal, the
Netherlands
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Dow opens new research facillity
at Purdue University
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FMC
has introduced a new herbicide Authority XL for soybeans
-
Monsanto and AgraQuest
are to evaluate the potential use of AgraQuest’s pipeline of
biopesticide leads to develop seed treatments for Monsanto’s core crops
and vegetables
-
DuPont’s seed business,
Pioneer Hi-Bred,
is to purchase a majority share in
Pannar Seed,
a South African-based seed company
-
Origin Biotechnology
has reached a worldwide agreement with the Institute of Plant
Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) to
commercialise a Bt developed in China
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Bayer CropScience is
to establish a chief operating officer (COO) function to further develop
customer-based solutions in its regional Crop Protection and BioScience
operations
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Syngenta Seedcare
has received EPA approval for the nematicide Avicta for use on
soybeans
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Chemtura AgroSolutions
is introducing Rancona seed treatments to winter wheat growers in
the US
-
Syngenta Crop
Protection, US is developing two new herbicides based on the active
ingredient flucarbazone for wheat
-
Mitsui AgriScience
International (MASI) is to acquire the Irish agrochemical business
AgriGuard Limited
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A team of UK
researchers, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research
Council (BBSRC), has publicly released the first sequence coverage of the
wheat genome
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Makhteshim Agan has
terminated its acquisition negotiations with Albaugh Inc
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Monsanto has acquired a
19.9% minority interest in InterGrain Pty Ltd, a leading cereal breeder in
Australia
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Barley growers in
Australia are being urged to use newer fungicides for disease control
following the confirmation of triazole resistance in powdery mildew
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Bayer
CropScience is to cancel the US registration of aldicarb on potatoes
and citrus
-
Bayer CropScience
has received registration for its new herbicide active ingredient
indaziflam in the US
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Amendments to
Canada’s Pest Control Products Regulations should speed up
registration and introduce more generic products into the market
place
-
Bayer CropScience
LP and Monsanto Company have entered into an exclusive agreement on
the use of Poncho/VOTiVO seed treatment
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A new cereal
fungicide bixafen from Bayer CropScience has been granted its first
regulatory approval in the UK
-
Kenya’s cotton
production is set to increase sixfold by 2012, after the country
adopts GM cotton
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Bayer CropScience
has entered into two joint collaboration agreements with the Oil
Crops Research Institute (OCRI) based in Wuhan, China
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European Commission has
announced new measures that would allow member states, or even regions
within countries, to restrict the cultivation of GM crops
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Certis UK
launches new metaldehyde formulation for slug control
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Monsanto has received
EU authorisation for two of its corn technology combinations
-
Monsanto is to
introduce new Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybean
varieties with aphid tolerance in 2011
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Syngenta Seeds has unveiled its
Agrisure Artesian technology, the brand name for its range of water
optimised corn hybrids
-
American Vanguard
Corporation has acquired the cotton defoliant product Def (tribufos)
from Bayer CropScience
-
Agrium
Inc has acquired 24 retail farm centres in Argentina from DuPont Crop
Protection
-
Syngenta and Bayer
CropScience have entered into a long-term business which grants Bayer a
worldwide, non-exclusive license for the use of Vipcot insect
control technology in cotton
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Bayer CropScience has
been granted regulatory approval for its fungicide isotianil in Japan
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Valent has
received EPA approval for aerial applications of the insecticide
Belay (clothianidin) in soybeans
-
Monsanto has
recently completed its regulatory submission to the US Department of
Agriculture for dicamba tolerant soybeans
-
BASF and Monsanto are to
expand their joint efforts to develop higher yielding and stress
tolerant crops by including wheat
-
Bayer CropScience is facilitating a new initiative, called
Respect the Rotation which is intended to encourage
farmers to adopt the key elements of Integrated Weed Management
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Engage Agro is to expand into the US
-
Syngenta sales in
the first six months of 2010 increased 1% to $6.74 billion, but were
3% lower at constant exchange rates
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Growers in Australia are being warned to manage weeds with a range
of weed management tactics following confirmation of 10 new
populations of glyphosate resistant annual ryegrass in Western
Australia
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The UK Technology Strategy Board has
awarded 32 innovative crop protection projects £13.5 million
set aside for collaborative R&D
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2010
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Monsanto
has added an acetochlor premix formulation for pre-emergence and post-emergence use
in corn to its herbicide portfolio
-
Eden Research plc, a UK
agrochemical development company, has signed an exclusive option
agreement for its nematicide product and technology with Certis Europe
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Gowan
Company has been granted the US crop protection marketing rights for
Nippon Soda’s insecticide Confirm
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FMC has acquired the
herbicide fluthiacet-methyl from the Japanese companies Kumiai and Ihara
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AgraQuest has received
registration for its soil fungicide Serenade Soil from the
California Department of Pesticide Regulation
-
Syngenta
will assume responsibility for the supply and distribution of Dow
groSciences crop protection products in the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS) region
-
The Sipcam-Oxon Group
has acquired a minority stake in the Germany-based biorational crop
protection company, Prophyta Biologischer Pflanzenschutz
-
Monsanto has
reported that the company’s results in the third quarter were
affected by price decreases for Roundup and other
glyphosate-based herbicides
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CropLife International
calls for global action to reverse boom in counterfeit trafficking
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Makhteshim Agan Industries (MAI) is to acquire US-based Albaugh for
more than $1 billion
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EU farm ministers
have failed to agree to approve six genetically modified (GM) maize
varieties for import for human and animal feed, despite a warning
that inaction could lead to a shortage of animal feed
-
Arysta
LifeScience and Cheminova have reached an agreement to cooperate in
Spain
-
The US EPA has taken the decision to phase out all uses of the
insecticide endosulfan in the US
-
Syngenta Seeds
has received approval from the Japanese regulatory authorities for
the Agrisure Viptera trait
-
Swiss-based
Andermatt
Biocontrol AG , has founded a
subsidiary company in South Africa
-
Syngenta is to
supply Rallis India with the fungicide azoxystrobin
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Gadot Chemical
Tankers and Terminals Ltd,
is
to acquire Israel-based
Merhav Agro Ltd
for approximately $28.4 million
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Monsanto
is repositioning its Roundup business because of structural
changes in the glyphosate industry
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Bayer launches new onion fungicide in
the UK
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Syngenta Seeds is introducing a new variety of sugar beet, Sentinel,
and claim it is resistant to Rhizomania and a cost-effective answer to
the problem of Beet Cyst Nematode (BCN)
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Devgen has launched
its nematicide Enclosure in the US for use in commercial peanut
production
-
Syngenta Crop
Protection has received federal EPA registration and California
Department of Pesticide Regulation approval for the fungicide Quadris
Top to be used on tomatoes and potatoes in California
-
Valent has announced
plans to launch Fierce, a new residual herbicide for corn and
soybeans, in 2011
-
Syngenta has acquired
the Maribo Seed sugar beet business from Nordic Sugar
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Crop productivity specialists Plant Impact has
extended its partnership with Arysta LifeScience with a new distribution
agreement covering Central America
-
Bayer CropScience and
Dow AgroSciences have entered into cross-licensing agreements regarding
cotton technologies
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Origin Agritech
Limited has acquired an 80% ownership stake in Shandong Kunfeng
Biochemical Limited
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The UK Chemicals
Regulation Directorate (CRD) has revoked the approval for sale, supply,
use and advertisement of the fungicide Agrotech Chlorthalonil 500
-
ECPA has
called for a European partnership for speciality crops
-
Bayer's potato
haulm desiccant is registered in the US
-
Gowan
Company has formed a new US subsidiary Gowan USA to focus on the
agriculture and TO (turf and ornamental) crop protection product
business
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Gowan Company has
received federal Section 3 registration for Magus
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Bayer CropScience and
the Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira (CTC), São Paulo, Brazil are to
cooperate on the research and development of new GM sugar cane varieties
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Cheminova has acquired
Isagro’s global dimethoate insecticide business
-
BASF has received
registration from the US EPA for Charter F2 fungicide seed
treatment
-
DuPont
has divested its global non-mixture mancozeb business assets to United
Phosphorus, Ltd (UPL)
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BASF has signed an
agreement with Japanese company Meiji Seika Kaisha for the
co-development of a new insecticide
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Nufarm has acquired the oilseed and confection sunflower interests of
California-based Flower Genetics
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Nippon Soda has
appointed Certis Europe as its distributor for its range of tebufenozide
products in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the UK, Belgium, Netherlands
and Luxemburg
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An advanced range of
packaging developed by Syngenta to help improve efficiency, safety and
environmental protection received positive feedback from farmer users in
the UK
-
Gowan
Company has received a federal section 3 registration of Scorpion
35SL insecticide for insect control in cucurbits, fruiting
vegetables, brassicas, potatoes, grapes and leafy vegetables
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BASF has filed lawsuits
against Makhteshim Agan of North America (MANA) and its affiliate
Control Solutions, and against Cheminova for infringement of patents
relating to the manufacture and use of fipronil
-
BASF
Crop Protection has announced a new fungicide active ingredient called
Xemium
-
Monsanto has unveiled
its product strategy to bring volume growth through upgrades on existing
acres and by winning new customers
-
Syngenta is investing
some €50 million in expanding several Saltigo facilities in Leverkusen,
Germany to enhance that company’s capacity for synthesising crop
protection active ingredients
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Dow AgroSciences has
secured an exclusive license from Semillas Papalotla for Brachiaria
grass seed hybrids and cultivars
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William S Niebur
is to lead DuPont’s
Pioneer Hi-Bred
business in China
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A new
Poncho/VOTiVO
seed treatment from Bayer CropScience has received registration from the
US EPA for use on corn
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Arysta LifeScience
has been granted commercial registration in Turkey for Wapiti 98,
a broad-spectrum soil fumigant
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New EU approvals for maize seed treatments mean that drilling can now
only be done by machines that do not vent into the air
-
A $15
million expansion of the manufacturing operations at Bayer CropScience,
Muskegon Industrial Park, US was recently completed
-
Syngenta has entered into a long-term multi-crop partnership with
Embrapa, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, to advance
solutions for improved crop quality and yield
-
Valent has received
additional EPA registrations for its insecticide Belay
(clothianidin) for use on a growing list of fruit, vegetable and nut
crops
-
Syngenta has received deregulation of MIR162, the Agrisure Viptera
trait, from the US Department of Agriculture
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Nihon Nohyaku has set
a target of 8-9 billion yen in annual sales in three to four years
for its novel insecticide Axel Flowable in overseas markets
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Two new strobilurin
fungicides, developed and owned by Shenyang Research Institute of
Chemical Industry (SRICI) have been granted provisional approval in China
-
Australia-based
Ospray Pty Ltd,
part of the Cheminova group, will be the exclusive distributor of Arysta
LifeScience crop protection products in Australia and New Zealand
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GfK Kynetec has acquired the non-crop
business of the UK based Agricultural Information Services (AIS)
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2010
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Makhteshim Agan has reported that sales in 2009
dropped 12.7% compared to sales in 2008
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Chemtura has
announced a new identity for its established crop protection business
-
Monsanto has opened
its new glyphosate production facility in Luling, US
-
Novozymes Biologicals
BioAg Group has launched Met52 Granular as a bioinsecticide for
use in Canada
-
Marrone Bio
Innovations has submitted two new agricultural biopesticides to
the US EPA
-
Oxford Plant Sciences
(OPS) is merging with the French contract research organisation, Staphyt
-
Syngenta has entered
into a public-private partnership with the International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) to focus on the development of new
technology for wheat
-
A new fungicide,
Bontima, based on Syngenta’s isopyrazam is being launched to UK
barley growers this season
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BASF’s Crop Protection division has opened a new office in Kenya
-
Bayer CropScience and
the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
(CSIRO), Australia’s national research agency, are expanding their
collaboration to assess the sustainability of new generation crops
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Embrapa, the agri-business and research arm of the Brazilian Government,
has established its first UK base at Rothamsted Research
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Devgen and the
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have established a
partnership to develop hybrid rice that withstands drought
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The biopesticide
company Certis USA has reached a marketing agreement with PQ Corporation
that allows it to reintroduce and distribute a preventative fungicide,
Sil-Matrix
Nippon Soda (Nisso)
has acquired the tebufenozide insecticide business from Dow AgroScience
Syngenta Crop
Protection, Canada is to work with Innovotech on a new plant bacterial
blight research product
The EPA has granted federal registration for
Makhteshim’s
Rimon
(novaluron) to be used on additional crops
DuPont plans to
expand its seed facilities in central Iowa
Bayer CropScience and
Mendel Biotechnology have entered into a new three-year collaboration
agreement
Origin Agritech,
a
supplier of hybrid and genetically-modified crop seeds in China,
announced it has developed a strategic pesticide business unit for
premium branded chemical products
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CropWorld
will
be taking place in London in November 2010. The event formerly known as
the BCPC
Congress was
previously held in Glasgow
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DuPont's Agriculture &
Nutrition segment expects to grow sales by 10% in 2010
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Syngenta’s reported
sales of $11 billion for 2009 were 5% lower than in 2008 owing to the
strength of the dollar in the first half of the year
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BASF says it plans
to introduce 28 new crop protection products in the US in the next four
years
-
Advanta US has
acquired the business and assets of the Texas-based Crosbyton Seed
Company
-
The European
Commission has approved Amflora, BASF's genetically optimised
starch potato, for commercial application in Europe
-
14
million farmers in 25 countries grew GM crops on 134 million hectares in
2009. This is a 7% increase over 2008, and includes the adoption of GM
crops in one new country, Costa Rica
-
Bayer CropScience’s new insecticide
Movento, has been
approved in the UK for use on both salad and brassica crops
-
Monsanto has received
approval from the US EPA for the sale of a new formulation of acetochlor
-
The US EPA has granted registration
for Isagro's Tenet fungicide, a biorational product to be
marketed exclusively in the US by SipcamAdvan
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Syngenta's
Cruiser
insecticide seed treatment has received US EPA registration
for use on sugar beet
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BASF’s Crop Protection division increased sales by 7% to €3.6
billion
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Bayer CropScience
gained further market share in 2009, improving sales by 2% to €6.5
billion
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Dow Agrosciences
expects more than $800 million of the company’s sales will come from
new products by 2013
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Syngenta has
signed a long-term collaboration agreement with the Agronomy
Institute of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil to share technical
knowledge for sugar cane studies
-
US-based
Divergence has received two Small Business Innovation Research
grants totaling $500,000 to support innovative work on
nematodes
-
Marrone Bio
Innovations has demonstrated that mixtures of copper with the
biofungicide Regalia are effective in controlling walnut
blight
-
Syngenta
Seedcare has received US EPA
registration for the use of Cruiser insecticide seed
treatment on sugar beet
-
Cibus
Global has been granted a European patent for the production of
crops resistant to glyphosate.
-
Certis Italy has
recently received registration for a biocide disinfectant,
JetFive
-
Valent USA is forming a new Biorational Business Unit
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Yissum Research Development Company has completed two research and
development agreements with Makhteshim Agan
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BASF's fungicide
Initium receives its first worldwide approval in Romania on
vines and vegetables
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AgraQuest introduces new soil fungicide for potatoes, tomatoes and
cucurbits
-
EU
member states have voted in favour of having malathion back on the
market in Europe
-
Germany-based
Neudorff has assigned a number of biopesticide products to Certis
USA
-
Monsanto plans to
become a part of the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in
Kannapolis, US
-
DuPont has applied to
regulatory authorities in the EU, as well as Canada and the US, for
registration of two new fungicides containing the active ingredient
penthiopyrad
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Willowood Limited of
Hong Kong is forming a wholly owned subsidiary in the US
-
The Willowood Group
has also acquired Shreeji Pesticides, an Indian contract manufacturer of
agrochemicals
-
Dow AgroSciences and KeyGene
N.V. have entered into a trait development agreement
-
Monsanto and Irish biotechnology
company Stokes Bio
have announced that they have
entered into a licensing agreement and R&D collaboration
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Statistics regulation completes European Commission’s four-part
‘pesticides package’
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Under a new exclusive
marketing arrangement, Interfarm UK will be
marketing five
crop protection products on behalf of Bayer CropScience
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Researchers at Leeds
University, UK have been trialling GM potatoes resistant to
nematodes
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The US Supreme Court
agreed to hear Monsanto's appeal of a ban on the sale of genetically
modified alfalfa
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Mexico has given full
regulatory authorisation for the importation of grain from three
Monsanto Genuity corn traits
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Makhteshim Agan is creating an
Americas Region in Miami, Florida
-
Dow AgroSciences has
sold its thifluzamide fungicide business to Nissan
-
Bayer CropScience is
adding the biofungicide Shemer to its portfolio of classic crop
protection products
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Arysta LifeScience South Africa is acquiring
selected assets of Tsunami Plant Protection and Tsunami Crop Care
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Market research
organisation dmrkynetec, is to operate in the future as GfK Kynetec
following the company’s acquisition by the GfK Group
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Following EPA approval, Valent
plans to market Innovate, an insecticide/fungicide seed treatment for
soybeans
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Summit Agro Europe
has changed its name to Sumi Agro Europe
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Certis has been
appointed by Nihon Nohyaku as the distributor for its potato desiccant,
Quickdown, in the Netherlands
-
BASF
and Monsanto are to develop and commercialise new corn hybrids with
better nutrition for animal feed
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Syngenta is to develop new technology for sugar cane
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Pioneer Hi-Bred is delaying
the commercialisation of its corn hybrids and soybean varieties with the
Optimum
GAT
trait
-
AUSVEG and
Bayer CropScience are forming a partnership that will share research and
information on the threats to vegetable crops
-
Syngenta has received
approval for the cultivation of its genetically modified corn trait
Bt11xGA21 from the Ministry of Agriculture in Argentina
-
Bayer CropScience has
announced that it will launch a ew biocontrol seed treatment in corn,
soybeans and cotton for the 2011 season
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Nufarm has rejected a
revised takeover offer from China’s Sinochem and instead agreed to
accept Sumitomo Chemical’s proposal to buy a 20% stake in the company
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Bayer Crop Sciences’
insecticide spirotetramat must be withdrawn in the US after a federal
court i invalidated EPA approval
-
Monsanto has announced that
the
Roundup Ready
soybean trait (RR1) will be available royalty-free at the end of the
2014 planting season
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AgraQuest is to produce
and package products for Bayer’s new Natria product line
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Brazil has approved
the use of a new genetically modified soybean seed developed jointly by
BASF and EMBRAPA
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Dow AgroSciences and Agrisoma
Biosciences a have signed a research and commercial license option
agreement that provides Dow with access to Agrisoma's ETL
technology
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Syngenta has opened a permanent site
for Syngenta Biotechnology's research institute in China
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Gowan Company has
launched a fungicide Moncoat MZ for use on potatoes in the US
under a marketing agreement with Nichino America
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Syngenta has acquired two US-based lettuce seed companies
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Monsanto
is to acquire Pfizer's Chesterfield Village Research Centre in Montana,
US for $435 million
-
BASF Crop Protection
is launching new, eco-friendly packaging for its crop protection
products in Europe
-
Syngenta Crop
Protection and Arysta LifeScience have signed licensing agreements in
Canada that allows each access to the other's herbicide chemistries.
Syngenta will use the herbicide flucarbazone while Arysta will market
clodinafop
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Makhteshim Agan has
reported that its sales in the third quarter amounted to $435.9 million,
compared with $640.1 million last year, a decrease of 31.9%
-
Bayer
CropScience and GVK Biosciences Private Limited (GVK BIO), Hyderabad,
India, have entered into a research cooperation
-
Bayer CropScience and
the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños,
Philippines, have signed an agreement to establish a Scientific Know-how
and Exchange Programme
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South Africa's
Agricultural Research Council has appealed against the government's
decision to reject a genetically modified potato it was hoping to
release to farmers
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Syngenta and Makhteshim Agan have announced a long term agreement under
which Syngenta will supply the Israeli company with its fungicide
azoxystrobin
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DuPont Crop Protection has selected
Engage Agro Corporation
as its exclusive distributor of vegetation management products in
Canada
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Syngenta has received full approval for the cultivation of two
genetically modified corn traits in Brazil
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Kumiai Chemical Industry Co Ltd has taken a 5% share in Certis Europe,
Mitsui & Co’s crop protection business in Europe
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Bayer CropScience’s
new fungicide seed treatment, Proceed has been approved by the US
EPA for the protection of cereal seed and seedlings
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Dow AgroSciences Canada is acquiring
the assets of Hyland Seeds, a division of Thompsons Limited of Blenheim,
Ontario
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DuPont Crop
Protection has appointed
Engage Agro Corporation
as its exclusive distributor of its vegetation management products in
Canada
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Cheminova has been unable to achieve expected sales and results in 2009.
It has reported that revenue for the first three quarters fell by 7% to
DKK 4,180 million compared to DKK 4,502 million in 2008
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Bayer CropScience
and FuturaGene PLC, London, have entered into a license agreement for a
drought tolerance technology
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Origin Agritech Limited, China, has received final approval for
the world’s first genetically modified phytase corn
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Syngenta ahas
received cultivation approval for its corn trait GA21 in the Philippines
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BASF has launched
Vivando, a new fungicide for the control of powdery mildew in squash
and pumpkins in New Zealand
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Becker Underwood, the
world’s largest producer of beneficial nematodes for crop protection, has
increased its production capacity for 2010
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Monsanto has reported net sales of $1.9 billion for the fourth quarter
of fiscal year 2009, a slight decrease over 2008 due to decreased
sales of Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides
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Syngenta
Ventures has made an equity investment in Metabolon , a privately-held
US biotechnology company focused on the use of metabolomics
-
Bayer
CropScience sales in the third quarter of 2009 were down by 8.7% to
€1,140 million
-
Bayer CropScience
reports that it has sequenced the entire genome of rapeseed/canola (Brassica
napus)
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Syngenta Crop Protection has introduced Callisto Xtra, a
new, post-emergence corn herbicide that will be marketed as a tank mix
partner for glyphosate in glyphosate-tolerant corn
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The Australian Centre
for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG) and Hexima Limited are to form an
alliance that will explore opportunities to research and develop
improvements to cereal crops
-
Makhteshim
Agan North America (MANA) Crop Protection has acquired Bold Formulators,
a US custom formulator, manufacturer and packager of agrochemical
products
-
DuPont has received registration approvals in
Japan and Brazil for insect control products based on
Rynaxypyr (chlorantraniliprole)
-
Bayer CropScience has
officially opened its new Cotton Research and Development Laboratory in
Lubbock, Texas
-
AgriSense-BCS
is relocating from the UK to Barcelona and together with sister company
Suterra España Biocontrol, will operate as Suterra Europe
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The European Commission announced that it has
approved a GM corn product for food, feed, import and processing jointly
developed by
Pioneer Hi-Bred
and Dow AgroSciences
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The
UK's Technology Strategy Board has announced the launch of a £13m
R&D funding initiative to develop crop protection technologies that
reduce the impact of the new EU regulations for pesticides
-
FMC have reported
that sales revenue
in Agricultural Products was $268.3 million, an increase of 2% when
compared to the same quarter in 2008
-
Syngenta reports that
sales in the third quarter of 2009 were at $2 biilion,12% lower than in
2008
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Becker Underwood,has
introduced Vault HP, a new bio-based, multi-component, growth
enhancer for soybeans
-
Monsanto is opening its first research
centre in China
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CSIRO researchers in Australia have
identified wheat and barley lines resistant to Crown Rot
-
Monsanto has received
approval from the Agriculture Ministry and Minister of Environment in
Mexico for small scale field trials of its corn traits
-
The US Justice Department is
investigating whether Monsanto has violated antitrust rules in trying to
expand its dominance of the market for genetically engineered crops
-
Arysta LifeScience North America has
announced the introduction of a new insect control technology
-
Monsanto and the
Huazhong Agricultural University in China have entered into a
collaboration to further the development of novel traits
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The US Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is launching a comprehensive new evaluation of the
pesticide atrazine to determine its effects on humans
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State-owned
Sinochem
Corporation,
China’s largest chemicals trader, has
offered A$2.84 billion ($2.46 billion) for
Nufarm
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UK scientists have
been awarded £1 million by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences
Research Council in partnership with Syngenta to research the
decline of honeybees
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Makhteshim Agan North
America has launched its herbicide
Pruvin (rimsulfuron)
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Sipcam-Oxon
has established a new joint venture company Sipcam Agro China based in
Shanghai and has opened a new representative office in Tokyo
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DuPont has added four
new seed research centres in developing countries and has expanded
operations at three existing facilities
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Makhteshim-Agan
(MAI) is investing $37 million in the San Diego-based agricultural
biotechnology business
Cibus Global
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Monsanto has outlined changes to its Roundup (glyphosate) and expects to
cut the price by as much as 50%
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Bayer CropScience has
successfully ended a patent infringement dispute in China with the two
Chinese companies
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Nufarm group
sales revenues for 2009 increased 7% to $2.68 billion but operating
earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) were down 44% to $151 million
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BASF has received US
EPA registration for its a new herbicide active ingredient,
Kixor
(saflufenacil) for use on a wide range of crops
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BASF has agreed to supply Monsanto with
a new cotton fungicide seed treatment based on F500
(pyraclostrobin)
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A
federal court in California, US, has ruled against Monsanto’s
genetically modified (GM) sugar beets
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The currency-adjusted
sales of Bayer CropScience grew 4% to €3,972 million in the first six
months of 2009 despite unfavourable weather conditions in some of the
major growing regions
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Beijing-based Origin
Agritech Ltd has acquired the exclusive worldwide rights for
a new seed gene for corn, soybean, rice, cotton and canola plants that
is highly resistant to glyphosate.
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Syngenta and the International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI) are to collaborate in rice research
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Centro de Tecnologia
Canavieir (CTC),
Brazil
and
BASF
have entered into a new cooperation agreement with the aim of bringing
sugarcane growers higher-yielding and drought-tolerant varieties
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DuPont has received full Canadian regulatory approval for its herbicide
tolerance trait, Optimum GAT, in corn and soybeans
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Nunhems, Bayer's
vegetable seed business is to have exclusive use of BASF’s fungicide
seed treatment on onion seeds in the US
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Syngenta
unveils unique formulation robot at its Jealott’s Hill R&D site
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Bayer CropScience’s
insecticidal active ingredient spirotetramat has received regulatory
approval in Australia
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Dogal
is to market Devguard, a nematicide from Devgen in Turkey
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Nufarm
has strengthened its seed business by acquiring two US based sorghum
companies
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Cheminova reports that it did not achieve expected sales and results in
the first half of 2009 due to deteriorating market conditions for the
herbicide glyphosate.
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Bayer CropScience is
to purchase Athenix an independent biotechnology company
headquartered in Research Triangle Park in the US
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Bayer CropScience and
the China National Rice Research Institute are to collaborate on rice
research and development
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The Syngenta
Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture has announced a two-year
public-private partnership between Syngenta and the International
Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) to identify and map
genetic markers for use in wheat resistance breeding against Ug99 stem
rust
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Bayer CropScience and
Canadian company Performance Plants have entered into an
agreement for the development and commercialisation of drought-tolerant
cotton
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Syngenta has acquired Monsanto’s global hybrid
sunflower seeds activities for $160 million
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Monsanto has entered a non-exclusive research and
commercial license agreement with
France-based Cellectis
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Arysta to market Tyratech new
technology in the US and Canada
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Bayer CropScience has
signed a global cooperation agreement with the Greenery to further
expand food chain partnership projects on a global scale
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Syngenta Seed Care
has entered into a partnership with
Incotec
that will enhance quality control and assurance during the treatment of
fruiting vegetable seed
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Dow AgroSciences has
submitted the first product of a new family of herbicide tolerance
traits to the US Department of Agriculture
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Chemtura has received
US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) registration for a novel soybean seed-applied fungicide
Rancona Summit
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Researchers at
Oregon State University
have discovered that the circadian rhythms or biological ‘clocks’ in
some insects can make them far more susceptible to pesticides at some
times of the day
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Bayer CropScience and
Precision BioSciences have entered into a collaborative agreement to
create site-specific genome modifications in plants
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Researchers at the
German University of Neuenburg have used genetic technology to restore
to maize a scent that defends it from pests
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An
independent review commissioned by the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA)
shows that there are no important differences in the nutrition content,
or any additional health benefits, of organic food when compared with
conventionally produced food
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The 2008
French crop protection market increased by 2% in
volume and by 14% in value to reach €2.079 billion
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AgraQuest has created
a regional team to commercialise its products throughout Central and
South America
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BASF’s herbicide
Frequency has received approval from the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for broad spectrum weed control on
bareground
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Bayer CropScience has
inaugurated a new innovation centre northeast of Saskatoon in Canada
dedicated to the research, development and breeding of canola
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Bayer CropScience is
expanding its global research and development activities in seeds and
traits to include a focus on cereals and has recently formalised a long
term alliance with CSIRO, Australia’s national research organisation
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Syngenta has signed a
three year research agreement with the China Agricultural University (CAU)
in Beijing
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SipcamAdvan has been appointed exclusive
distributor for the biofungicide
Actinovate in the US
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China's
largest chemicals trader Sinochem has confirmed it is in
discussions with Nufarm about a potential takeover
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Syngenta has set
up a five year €1 million programme to provide essential habitat and
food sources for pollinating insects across Europe
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Researchers at
the University of Leicester, UK have paved the way for the first
ever use in Europe of an insect to combat an invasive plant species
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Bayer will cease
marketing the insecticide endosulfan in 2010 and will replace it
with safer alternatives
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Monsanto is
expanding its seeds and traits portfolio to include wheat and has
acquired the assets of WestBred, LLC, a private wheat germplasm
company based in Montana, US
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Dow AgroSciences and NemGenix, a biotechnology company based in
Perth, Australia, have announced a newly established collaboration
to produce nematode-resistant crops
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In the first half
of 2009 Syngenta has achieved further sales growth. Sales at
constant exchange rates (CER) increased by 2% driven by higher
pricing . Crop Protection sales rose by 1% (CER)
and Seeds sales by 7% (CER)
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The Bayer CropScience subsidiary Nunhems has opened a new experimental
station in Cartagena in Spain
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DuPont
has made two cotton acquisitions in India to enhance its product line
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Monsanto has reported
net sales of $3.2 billion for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009,
which are 11% lower than sales in the same period in fiscal year 2008
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Italian chemical
company Endura has signed a licensing agreement with UK and Australian
research institutes allowing it to commercialise new technology based on
time delayed release of micro-encapsulated insecticides
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FMC has purchased the
proprietary fungicide benalaxyl from Isagro S.p.A.
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A new
pre-emergence cereal herbicide Sakura discovered and researched
by Japanese agrochemical company, Kumiai, is to be marketed in Australia
by Bayer CropScience
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AgraQuest Inc., has received registration from the California Department
of Pesticide Regulation for its new insecticide Requiem
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Plant Bioscience
Limited
of Norwich, UK and
Becker Underwood
have signed an agreement granting Becker Underwood exclusive global
marketing rights to a patented new seed treatment technology
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The Anticounterfeit
and Health Unit of the Italian police has seized more
than 120 tonnes of counterfeit pesticides
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Monsanto has received
a favourable scientific opinion from experts at the European Food Safety
Authority with regard to its Roundup Ready 2 (MON 810) corn
product for cultivation. They have also reconfirmed the safety of the
YieldGard insect-protected corn trait
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Monsanto and
Protabit in the US have announced a two year collaboration to
develop new tools for protein design and optimisation
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Tessenderlo
Kerley, Inc. (TKI) has acquired the
linuron herbicide assets from
DuPont
Crop Protection
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Monsanto is
planning to create a separate division for its Roundup
(glyphosate) and other herbicides business
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Monsanto and
Bayer CropScience have agreed to cross license their respective
herbicide tolerance traits in canola on a non-exclusive basis for
commercialisation within their own branded canola seed businesses
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Bayer CropScience
and DuPont have entered into a series of long term business
agreements related to key plant biotechnology traits and enabling
technologies that will help increase agricultural productivity
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Syngenta
Biotechnology, Inc has entered into a collaboration agreement with
Evogene Ltd. The focus will be on identifying plant genes related to
soybean nematode resistance
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Pasteuria Bioscience has received US EPA registration for
Pasteuria usgae for the control of nematodes
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Syngenta
has acquired Georgia-based Circle One Global to add an innovative
antitoxin crop protection technology Afla - Guard to the
company's portfolio
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In Magdeburg,
Germany, the regional court has sentenced six opponents of gene
technology to pay compensation for the damage they have caused
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Institute for Breeding Research on Horticultural and Fruit Crops, the
Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) in Germany has reported that 270 GM
apple trees have been destroyed by intruders
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Dupont, Canada launch
five new cereal herbicide blends, that are available exclusively
through DuPont PrecisionPac retailers
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The US Department of
Agriculture has granted approval for Bayer's GlyTol cotton
technology
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Devgen’s new
nematicide product has obtained regulatory approval in the US and will
be promoted under the brand name Enclosure. First year sales will
focus on usage in peanuts
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The US EPA is strengthening safety measures for
soil fumigants
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BASF has filed a lawsuit against DuPont for
infringement of BASF's patented technology that confers tolerance to a
key class of herbicides
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Plant
Impact has entered into an exclusive worldwide licence agreement with
Arysta which includes the right to sublicence, manufacture and
sell its patented insecticide technology BugOil
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Bayer CropScience and
the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC), Liverpool, UK have
entered into a research agreement to discover new active ingredients for
public health products that are effective against mosquitoes
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BASF has launched
a new cereal seed treatment Rubin TT in Germany
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Syngenta
Crop Protection has announced that its product
Quilt
Xcel
has received a Section 3 registration in the US for use on corn
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DuPont has
announced that it has applied for US EPA registration for four new
weed control products based on aminocyclopyrachlor for the
land management market
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Bayer CropScience
is to establish a plant biotechnology research centre in
Morrisville, North Carolina
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Monsanto say that
more than 16,000 farmers are planting
Genuity Roundup
Ready 2 Yield
soybeans this
season
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The US EPA has issued a
final rule
revoking
carbofuran
tolerances (residue limits in food
for all commodities) effective 31 December 2009
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The Biosciences
Research Centre, located in Melbourne, Australia has formed a global
alliance with Dow AgroSciences.
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First quarter
results announced by Makhteshim Agan were marked by declining
profits, even though the company managed to maintain its sales
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Aceto Corporation, New York, US has reported
that its crop protection sales increased 39.6% in the third quarter
of fiscal year 2009 compared to 2008
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Texas AgriLife Research
has received a large private donation of cotton technology from
Monsanto
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Pest
Control India Private Limited (PCI) is to launch Exosex YSB
in India.
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Bayer CropScience and
Janssen develop new post harvest fungicides
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Bayer launches
website to support soybean aphid control
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The value of the
conventional chemical crop protection market in 2008 increased by 21.2%
in comparison with 2007 to reach $40,475 million, according to
consultants Phillips McDougall
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Bayer CropScience
achieved some success in enforcing its patent rights in a Chinese court of
law. The court ordered Jiangsu Tian Rong Group Ltd to stop selling
mefenpyr because of an infringement of patent rights
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DuPont Crop Protection has recently launched three new products in India
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Dow
AgroSciences increased sales by 10% to $1,446 due to increased volumes in
the first quarter of 2009
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Bayer
CropScience has reported a good first quarter to 2009. It increased sales
by 7.2% to €2,120 due to higher selling prices coupled with an increase in
volumes
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Cheminova’s parent company, Auriga, achieved growth of 3% in the first
quarter 2009 at constant exchanges rates
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BASF's Agricultural Solutions business
segment increased sales revenue by 21% to €1.145 billion compared to the
same period in 2008
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FMC's revenue in
Agricultural Products of $261.4 million was 6% lower than for the same
quarter last year
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Monsanto and Drexel reach glyphosate agreement
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Bayer CropScience has
presented its new fungicide fluopyram
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Bayer CropScience AG
will be investing around €30 million in the expansion of production
capacities for the active ingredient prothioconazole
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Bayer CropScience
and Evogene will collaborate for the next three years on increasing
rice productivity and yield
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Monsanto
has filed a lawsuit against Pioneer Hi-Bred International to
prevent the unlawful use of proprietary Roundup Ready
herbicide tolerant technologies in soybeans and corn
Rotam Agrochemical Company has signed an
exclusive agreement with Agform
to distribute novel agrochemical
formulations.
Scottish Crop
Research Institute (SCRI), Dundee,
Scotland and the universities of
Dundee
and
Warwick
are to join forces in a multi-million pound project to investigate
late blight on potatoes
SipcamAdvan is exiting its US
distribution agreement with Certis USA, effective 1 May 2009.
DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition
sales grew 6% to $3.1 billion, and earnings grew 8% to more than
$850 million despite a negative currency effect of $150 million
Syngenta
reported increased sales growth in the first quarter of 2009 . Sales
increased by 7% at constant exchange rates
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from March 2009 |
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- Monsanto and
Hunan University, China have entered into a four-year research and
licensing agreement focused on identifying novel plant genes
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Monsanto saw
record sales of $6.7 billion in the first six months of its 2009 fiscal
year. The year-to-date sales were 16% higher than sales in the same
period in the previous year.
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Nufarm has beaten
market forecasts and achieved stronger than expected growth in the first
half of its 2009 fiscal year
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Bayer CropScience
has acquired assets and technology from
AgroGreen
one of the leading companies in the
bionematicides business
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Syngenta Crop Protection has
announced that the US EPA has issued a Section 3 registration for
the use of Flexstar GT herbicide in glyphosate-tolerant soybeans
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Bayer CropScience and
the National Centre for Scientific Research - Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France, have renewed an
agreement signed in 2005
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Makkhteshim Agan reports that sales
in 2008 increased by 22.8% higher reaching a record $2.54 billion. Crop
protection sales were 26% higher than in 2007
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Dow AgroSciences LLC
and
Schillinger Seed, Inc
have entered into a licensing, research and development agreement for
the commercialisation of GM soybeans
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Syngenta and
Dow AgroSciences have announced an agreement to cross license their
respective corn traits for commercialisation within their branded
seed businesses
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DuPont and the
Indonesian
Centrer for Rice Research (ICRR)
have announced an agreement that grants
Pioneer Hi-Bred
access to test and commercialise ICRR rice hybrids in Asia
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DuPont and the Institute of Plant Protection
of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences have entered into a
multi-year, exclusive research collaboration to improve in-plant
insect control
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BASF has entered
into a license, supply and distribution agreement for AgraQuest's
Serenade, a leading bio-fungicide product.
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Dow AgroSciences
has received regulatory approval
from the Brazilian National Technical Commission on Biosafety
(CTNBio) for its WideStrike Insect Protection technology in
cotton.
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CropScience
intends to consolidate its European plant biotechnology research
activities at its Innovation Centre in Ghent, Belgium.
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International, a subsidiary of Biocon Ltd, an Indian biotechnology
company has formed an alliance with DuPont Crop Protection
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Monsanto has completed its regulatory submissions in the US and
Canada for the world's first biotech drought-tolerant corn product
developed together with BASF
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- UK scientists
have been awarded £1.7 million to analyse the genomes of five varieties
of wheat, in order to help farmers increase yield and disease resistance
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Cheminova is increasing its ownership stake in Stähler to 75%
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Syngenta sales (at constant exchange rates) increased by 21% in 2008.
Volume growth of 15% was supplemented by a 6% contribution from
price
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Bayer reports that
its CropScience business achieved the best performance in the history of
its crop protection business. Sales grew by 9.5% to a record €6.382
billion
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DuPont Crop Protection’s new insect
control chemistry Rynaxypyr is now is available to Turkish
farmers
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The BCPC Congress will
be back in November 2009 at the Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre
in Glasgow
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The
US EPA has
registered Bayer’s fungicide Adament 50 WG for the control of
powdery mildew, leaf spot and several other diseases on grapes and stone
fruit
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FMC
has acquired the CB Professional Products range of insect control
products from Waterbury Companies, Inc.
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Monsanto is to introduce a family of traits under the name Genuity
in the US
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Kenya
has become the fourth African country to allow the production and use of
genetically modified crops
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Bayer CropScience
and
Nature Source Genetics,
New York, US have entered into an exclusive five year collaboration
involving the pre-breeding and enhancement of cotton germplasm
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Scientists have identified a wheat gene sequence which provides
protection against leaf rust, stripe rust and powdery mildew
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Indaziflam is one of ten new active
ingredients that Bayer CropScience is planning to launch between
2008 and 2012. The company anticipates marketing the first herbicide
products based on indaziflam in 2011 subject to regulatory approval
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Syngenta has agreed an eight year research collaboration with Anhui
Rice Research Institute (ARRI) in China
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Dow AgroSciences has reported that its 2008 sales revenues rose 20%
to $4.5 billion while operating profit increased by 36% to $761
million
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In 2008 BASF increased sales in its Agricultural Solutions segment
by 8.7% to €3.409 billion
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Makhteshim Agan launches epoxiconazole in the UK
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Environment ministers from the EU member states have voted to reject
a European Commission proposal that would have required Austria and
Hungary to lift their bans on genetically modified (GM) corn seeds
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Nufarm has launched
three new wild oat and broadleaf herbicide combinations, Signal,
Signal D and Signal M, for use in spring wheat and durum
crops in Canada
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The EPA has
approved Syngenta’s fungicide Inspire XT for use on sugar
beet in the US
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Dow AgroSciences
and the China National Rice Research Institute in have entered into
a research agreement to combine the strengths of Dow AgroSciences’
traits and technologies with CNRRI’s leading rice germplasm
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DuPont
and the
International
Rice Research Institute, based in
the Philippines, have entered into a collaboration to boost rice
yields
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- MEPs have voted in favour of
the new EU pesticides package at a plenary session in Strasbourg. It is
expected that the legislation will be implemented in the second half of
2010
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The Co-op, one of the UK’s leading supermarkets, is prohibiting
suppliers of its own-brand fresh produce from using neonicotinoid
insecticides until they are shown to be safe to honeybees
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BASF’s fungicide,
Headline (pyraclostrobin), is the first to have US EPA
approved plant health claims on its label
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DuPont and Athenix have entered into a research collaboration to improve
insect control in corn and soybeans.
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BASF
and
Embrapa
(Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária), Brazil’s public
agricultural research corporation, have submitted a jointly developed
herbicide-tolerant soybean to
CTNBio,
the Brazilian Biosafety Commission responsible for regulatory approval
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Arcadia Biosciences
has
reached a research and commercial development agreement with
Targeted Growth Inc
(TGI)
for
the development of herbicide-tolerant wheat.
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Protéus, a
biotechnology company based in Nimes, France, has entered into a
collaboration agreement with Syngenta on the development of novel high
performing enzymes for next generation biofuel production
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BASF and Monsanto
have announced a new joint-licensing agreement to accelerate the
development of the next generation of dicamba-based weed control
chemistry products
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Tesco’s chief executive has admitted that UK supermarkets may have
been too quick to jump on the non-GM bandwagon and has signalled
that Tesco is willing to re-open the debate
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United Phosphorus
Limited (UPL) has launched a new sugar beet herbicide in the UK. The
product, Betasana Trio, contains three active ingredients and
uses the company’s patented Structured Surfactant Formulation (SSF)
technology
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A
new initiative to help cereal farmers combat the effects of grain
price volatility and high fertiliser costs in 2009 is being launched
by Syngenta in the UK
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Monsanto has established a three-year
collaboration agreement with
GrassRoots
Biotechnology Inc.
based in Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina, to source novel genetic elements,
including promoters and genes,
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DuPont saw its
total profits from all business segments drop from $3 billion to $2
billion for 2008. However, sales in the agriculture and nutrition
segment for 2008 were $7.9 billion, up from $6.8 billion the
previous year
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Exosect has
announced that it has signed an international distribution agreement
with Makhteshim Agan Industries (MAI).
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BASF and Cibus, a
leading plant trait development technology company, have reached a
significant research milestone for developing
Clearfield
Production System
plants in winter and spring oilseed rape
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FMC has introduced a new herbicide, Spartan Charge (sulfentrazone
+ carfentrazone-ethyl), for sunflowers
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New Zealand's Environmental Risk
Management Authority (ERMA) has announced that it is banning the
insecticide endosulfan immediately
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Dow AgroScience’s
new cereal herbicide Broadway Star has been granted
registration in the UK
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Makhteshim Agan Industries (MAI) has
acquired a stake in Rokita Agro, a Polish agrochemical affiliate
of the German group PCC, and the business of Magan Yu, a Serbian
agrochemical distributor
Bayer CropScience plans to launch its
LibertyLink
herbicide-tolerance technology for soybeans in the US in 2009
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Plant Health Care (PHC), the UK natural
plant products company has reached an agreement with Monsanto on
the commercialisation of a seed treatment for row crops and vegetables
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Pioneer Hi-Bred has unveiled a new
business strategy to bring its seed genetics to more acres around the
world through a network of partnerships and new brands
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Sipcam Agro US, and its two wholly owned
subsidiaries, Advan and Sostram Corporation, are relocating their US
headquarters Research Triangle Park in North Carolina
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AgraQuest has
received EPA registration for its new biological insecticide
Requiem
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EPA approves Syngenta's new Agrisure corn trait
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Trevor Thorley has been named as CEO and
executive vice president of AMVAC Chemical Corporation
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Chemtura
has chosen two new distributors for its seed treatment products in
Canada
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Increased demand
for its products in Latin America has propelled Monsanto to record
sales and net income results for the first quarter of its fiscal
2009
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Bayer CropScience
has terminated an agreement to develop seed treatments based on
Plant Health Care's Myconate technology
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Makhteshim Agan
North America (MANA) has introduced in the US Pyrimax 3.2SL,
a new cotton herbicide
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DuPont’s seed
subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred and Dow AgroSciences have received
regulatory approval for cultivation of the Herculex I
insect protection trait in Brazil
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French-based agricultural contract research organisation, Staphyt,
and the Agrostat businesses in Germany and Poland are to merge their
operations
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The
French presidency of the EU
and negotiators from member states and the European Parliament have
reached a compromise on the controversial pesticides registration
'package'
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SynTech Research
has established a new operating company in Brazil to carry out
contract field trials, project management and registration
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Syngenta is to acquire SPS Argentina , a company that
specialises in the development, production and marketing of soybean,
corn and sunflower
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BASF is to acquire Sorex Holdings Ltd, a
manufacturer of branded chemical and non-chemical products for
professional pest management
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The biopesticide company
Certis USA has been granted the marketing and distribution rights
to sell MeloCon
bionematicide in the US
-
Syngenta
has launched a new herbicide for US soybeans
-
The
UK Pesticides Safety Directorate's (PSD) latest report on the European
Commission’s proposals for a new Pesticide Authorisation Regulation
confirms that up to 23% of crop protection products could now be removed
from the market
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The UK government has
been ordered to review its policies on the use of pesticides after a
green campaigner won a landmark victory in the High Court
-
A counterfeit shipment of the cereal herbicide
iodosulfuron, intended for export to the Middle East from the port of
Tianjin in China, has recently been stopped by the courts
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Makhteshim Agan
has reported record third quarter sales and another increase in
profitability
-
Syngenta and Dow AgroSciences have announced a research and
development agreement to evaluate Dow compounds for incorporation
into Syngenta's seed treatment portfolio
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Bayer CropScience has opened a new rice development
centre in Suphanburi, Thailand
-
Bayer CropScience
held its first international Sugar Beet Future Forum early in
November in Berlin
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BASF has announced details of a new fungicide active ingredient
called Initium
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Syngenta is to take over certain assets of AgroStar AD, a leading
company in import and distribution of crop protection products and
vegetable seeds in Bulgaria
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Syngenta UK plans
to introduce a new fungicide, code name 520, in 2010 based on a new
class of chemistry
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Dow
has acquired a seed company based in US Eastern Cornbelt
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from October 2008 |
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Syngenta has reported
that sales in the third quarter of 2008 increased by 28% at constant
exchange rates (CER)
-
Bayer's crop science
business saw its sales rise 8% to €1.2 billion in the third quarter from
€1.1 billion the previous year
-
Dow
AgroSciences has announced that it has created 350 new positions
globally in 2008
-
DuPont sales grew by 22% to $1.3 billion in the third quarter due to
herbicide pricing, strong demand for fungicides and insecticides in
Brazil and increased seed share and plantings in Brazil
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According to India’s
Business Standard newspaper United Phosphorus Limited (UPL) has
been in talks with Makhteshim Agan Industries (MAI) to buy a 39% stake
in the company for around $1.1 billion
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FMC
reports that revenue in Agricultural Products of $263.8 million was 37%
higher than for the third quarter in 2007
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Syngenta Crop Protection has announced
that the US EPA has issued a Section 3 registration for the use of
Endigo (lambda-cyhalothrin and thiamethoxam) insecticide on
soybeans.
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The
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared that
France's ban on Monsanto’s genetically modified maize MON 810 is
unjustified.
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Syngenta is developing a new technology to dramatically improve the cost
efficiency of sugar cane planting in Brazil.
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Dow AgroSciences is acquiring the assets of Südwestsaat GbR (SWS),
a well-established German based hybrid maize company
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BASF has granted Nufarm an exclusive license to the trademark
Weedmaster (dicamba + 2,4-D) in the US
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Indian
agrochemical company Punjab Chemicals & Crop Protection Ltd (PCCPL)
is looking to make acquisitions in the US and Europe to grow its
overseas turnover to Rs 300 crore ($60 million).
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Dow
AgoSciences has reported sales of $976 million, 24% higher than for
the same period last year and setting a third quarter sales record
for the company
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Monsanto is to
acquire Aly Participacoes Ltda. and its two sugarcane breeding and
technology companies, CanaVialis S.A. and Alellyx S.A.
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Chemtura’s crop protection revenues increased 24% or $20 million
compared with the third quarter of 2007 driven by increased volumes
in Europe and Latin America.
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Syngenta
Professional Products has launched a new turf fungicide, Renown
(chlorthalonil and azoxystrobin)
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BASF's
agricultural solutions business saw an 11% increase in third quarter
sales to €636 million ($840 million) from €574 million in 2007
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Syngenta has
acquired two US companies to grow its global flower business
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Dow AgroSciences is challenging a ban on the use of 2,4-D in Canada
under Chapter 11 of the free trade agreement between Canada, the US
and Mexico.
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International Finance Corporation (IFC) is to make up to $75 million
investment in United Phosphorus Ltd
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BASF Plant
Science and Calantia Biotech , a Spanish company based in Valencia
that conducts research into crop productivity in the biofuel sector,
have announced a global licensing agreement
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Bayer CropScience will
invest €3.4 billion will be invested into research and development
between 2008 and 2012
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The Italian
government has banned the neonicotinoid insecticides that have been
blamed for the deaths of millions of honeybees
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Tessenderlo Kerley has acquired the assets, marketing
and distribution channels of Agrochem of Istanbul and Izmir, Turkey
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Dow AgroSciences is acquiring the
majority assets of the seed business, Renze Hybrids, Iowa, US
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Syngenta Crop Protection
has received US EPA registration for its insecticide Durivo for
use in vegetable crops
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Nufarm has
reported a
39% increase
in revenue from $1.79 billion in fiscal year 2007 to $2.49 billion in
2008
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DuPont has opened a
new $2.5 million corn research centre in Bangalore, India
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Syngenta has received
the 2008 World Business and Development Award (WBDA) for the development
and successful introduction of tropical sugar beet
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Syngenta extends its
agreement with Metabolon
for access to biochemical profiling technology for use in
agricultural applications
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DuPont
opens a new €1.5 to €2 million research facility in Hungary
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The European
Food Safety Authority
(EFSA) is setting up a new pesticide committee to strengthen its
role in reviewing the safety of active substances
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Bayer Crop Science’s LibertyLink soybean, A 2704-12, has
received final approval from the European Commission for importation
into the EU for food and feed use
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Eight
leading trade associations in the UK food chain have written to
Prime Minister Gordon Brown requesting a meeting to discuss the
European Commission proposals for pesticide authorisations
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Syngenta Crop
Protection has received a “NAFTA label” for its new fungicide
Revus (mandipropamid) for vegetable crops across Canada
-
Bayer
CropScience is to expand its biosciences and plant biotechnology
research facility in Hyderabad, India
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Monsanto expects
its seeds and genomics segment to generate above $3.8 billion in
gross profit for its 2008 fiscal year, up from an earlier forecast
of $3.7 billion, representing a growth rate of more than 25%
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After trading as
Agrisearch for more than 25 years the UK CRO is to become Eurofins
Agroscience Services
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Monsanto has received
regulatory approval in China for the importation of Roundup Ready 2
Yield soybeans
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Cheminova increases its sales by 47% in the first half of 2008
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US
EPA registers Bayer's insecticide Belt
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Valent Corporation, US has acquired certain assets of Green Light
Company , a consumer lawn and garden business
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BASF
have reported that business in the Agricultural Solutions segment has
grown in the first half of 2008. Sales rose by 14% and by 21% if
currency effects were disregarded
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Monsanto and Pilot
Grove Cooperative Elevator have announced that they have settled a two
year dispute involving a Roundup Ready patent infringement
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Bayer CropScience has
been granted its first regulatory approval for the new corn herbicide
thiencarbazone-methyl in Romania
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The EU Standing
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has approved four
BASF
pesticides following positive assessments by the
European Food and
Safety Authority
(EFSA)
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Monsanto and the
China National Seed Group Corporation have entered into an agreement
to expand their investments in the companies’ existing Chinese joint
venture company
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DuPont has been
awarded a 2008 R&D 100 Award for Rynaxypyr, its advanced insect
control product
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Makhteshim Agan
sales in the second quarter were 25.8% higher at a record $682.3
million, compared with $542.5 million in 2007
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Bayer CropScience
has expanded its business substantially in the first half of 2008.
Adjusted for exchange rate and portfolio effects, sales grew 19% in
the first six months of the year to reach €3.78 billion
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Dow acquires two US seed businesses
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Monsanto is to brand its new seed
performance technology
Acceleron
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BASF Plant Science and VIB-UGent Department of Plant Systems
Biology) have signed a major cooperation agreement for three years
to improve yield and stress tolerance
- Monsanto is
pursuing court action after all of its GM trials in France were
destroyed by environmental activists
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- The British Crop
Production Council (BCPC) has shocked the industry by cancelling the
2008 Congress in Glasgow and putting its commercial arm (BCPE Ltd)
into receivership
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BASF
Crop Protection plans to invest more than €150 million in additional
capacity to meet the growing demand for key crop protection products.
The two-year expansion project will increase capacity at production
facilities in Germany, France, Brazil and the US
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The US EPA is
taking action to stop the use of the insecticide carbofuran on all food
crops, including those that are imported
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The USDA has
deregulated MON 89034, the new above the ground insect protection
technology from Monsanto which will be stacked with the company’s below
ground and Roundup Ready technologies to be sold as
YieldGard VT Triple PRO
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Bayer CropScience has launched a new
herbicide Ignite (glufosinate ammonium) as a nonselective
alternative to glyphosate
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A new
co-formulated cereal seed treatment from Syngenta, Celest Extra, brings
together the triazole fungicide difenoconazole with fludioxinil
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The
European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) has reported that the Polish
security service has recently tracked down a consignment of counterfeit
pesticides
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Margarita, an international investment company based in Madeira has
acquired 70% of the shares held by Sipcam in Sariaf Gowan in Italy
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Bayer
CropScience’s herbicide active ingredient tembotrione has been approved
for use in Brazil
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The new
insecticide active ingredient spirotetramat from Bayer CropScience has
been granted regulatory approval in the US and Canada
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Syngenta has reported that sales revenue for the first half of 2008
is up 28% to $7.3 billion, 20% at constant exchange rates (CER)
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DuPont has
received US regulatory approval for its proprietary herbicide
tolerance trait, the Optimum GAT trait in soybeans
-
DuPont
and the Australian agribusiness
Hexima
have agreed a development and commercialisation agreement for
certain biotech fungal disease resistance technologies
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Scientists are arguing that field trials of GM crops in the UK need
better protection to allow researchers to assess the benefits of GM
technology
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Syngenta has announced a decision to increase
investment in its UK manufacturing and R&D sites by more than £100
million ($192 million)
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A number
of leading US agricultural businesses have joined together to form
the Alliance for Abundant Food and Energy, designed to promote
the understanding that agriculture can sustainably meet the growing
global demand for food and renewable forms of energy through
innovation
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Bayer CropScience has launched its Qualidate fingerprint
authentification technique based on approved food additives,
developed to protect against counterfeit products
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Gowan Company is to acquire the global rights to Dow AgroSciences’
zoxamide fungicide business
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After
several failed attempts to find an agreement on new pesticide
legislation, EU agriculture ministers, with the support of the European
Commission, finally reached political agreement on 23 June on a
compromise text put forward by the Slovenian Presidency
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Police in Russia have
uncovered a major pesticide counterfeiting facility following a raid on
premises near to the city of Kursk
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Coronet,
the fungicide seed treatment from BASF, recently received registration
from the US EPA for use on brassica, bulb, cucurbit and legume
vegetables and cotton
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DuPont has opened a
new maize research centre in Los Mochis, Mexico
-
BASF and Monsanto
have signed an exclusive agreement for a new fungicide seed treatment
for soybeans in the US. The new product contains BASF’s pyraclostobin
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Nufarm has acquired
the global trademarks, registrations and assets of a number of DuPont’s
cotton products
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BASF and Nidera,
an internal agribusiness company based in the Netherlands, have
introduced CLHA-Plus, a new genetic trait for the Clearfield
Production System for sunflowers
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Nufarm has negotiated
separate agreements with a number of leading Chinese companies involved
in the manufacture of glyphosate
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Bayer CropScience has
opened a rice research laboratory in Singapore to support the
development of new high yielding hybrid varieties
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Syngenta unveiled
its new S-pac packaging design for liquid formulations at the recent
Cereals 2008 event in the UK
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The Federal
Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) in Germany has
now lifted the registration suspension it imposed in May for
insecticide seed treatment products used in oilseed rape
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Certis Europe has
reported year end results of €113 million, showing a 31% increase in
turnover to March 2008
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Rotam North
America has received EPA registration for its product Romestrol
(metsulfuron-methyl) to be used in the non crop, industrial turf and
forestry markets
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Monsanto has
acquired Semillas Cristiani Burkard (SCB), a privately-held seed
company headquartered in Guatemala
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Dow AgroSciences
has received one of the US government’s top environmental honours,
the 2008 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, for
spinetoram, an innovative insect control technology
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SynTech Research has established a new operating company in
Argentina to carry out contract field trials
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Syngenta and
DuPont are to share the costs of preparing the regulatory studies
for DuPont’s Cyazypyr, a new broad spectrum insecticide which will
provide global registrations and commercialisation opportunities for
both companies
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Cheminova is to
acquire Bayer CropScience’s pesticide formulation and filling
facility in Australia
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Bayer CropScience
recommends its cereal fungicide Folicur (tebuconazole) against
Ug99, an extremely aggressive variant of the black stem rust fungus in
Kenya and Iran
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BASF
and
Academia Sinica,
the leading research institute in Taiwan have entered a research
cooperation agreement that will focus on rice and corn
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DuPont and Rotam have entered
into a patent non-assertion agreement with regard to nicosulfuron in the
US
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The US EPA has
approved Bayer's herbicide Laudis (tembotrione) for use in all
corn crops
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The
German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has
suspended the registration of eight insecticidal seed treatment products
used in oilseed rape and corn as a result of bee losses in the state of
Baden Württemberg
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Bayer CropScience has received registration
from the US EPA for the fungicide Proline (prothioconazole) to be
used on soybeans
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Rotam establishes an office in the UK to manage the UK and Northern
European agrochemical business
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Egypt has
approved the cultivation and commercialisation of a Bt maize
variety
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Monsanto will
market iprodione under the Bayer trademark Rovral R to
Western Canadian growers
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The French
parliament has adopted a controversial bill on genetically modified
(GM) crops
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DuPont
receives US and Canadian approval for products containing Rynaxypyr
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Aceto Corporation has sold its phorate product line to American
Vanguard Chemical Corporation (AMVAC)
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Syngenta has
reached an agreement with Monsanto and has settled all outstanding
litigation relating to the two companies’ global corn and soybean
businesses
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Monsanto is investing $6 million in a new research centre in Gothenburg,
Nebraska that will focus on technologies, corn breeding and agronomic
practices to address water management in crop production
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Cheminova
increased it revenue by 33% to $295 million while the EBIT margin
improved to 9% during the first quarter of 2008
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BASF is putting pressure
on the European Commission to give approval to its GM potato, Amflora.
The company says it has become increasingly irritated with the Commission
and has taken advertising space in several German daily newspapers
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Monsanto and Mendel
Biotechnology are to conduct joint research on perennial grass seed as a
second generation biofuel
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Bayer's new sugar beet fungicide,
Escolta, has been approved in the UK . The coformulation
containing cyproconazole and trifloxystrobin gives good control of powdery
mildew, rust, Ramularia and Cercospora
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Syngenta sales grow
20% at constant exchange rates compared with the first quarter of 2007
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Monsanto has reported record net sales of $3.8 billion for the second
quarter of fiscal year 2008, 45% higher than in the same
period in 2007
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Syngenta is to build a
new biotech research & technology centre in Beijing, China. Its focus will
be on early-stage evaluation of GM and native traits for key crops such as
corn and soybean
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Bayer CropScience has
filed a lawsuit against the Chinese company Jiangsu Tian Rong to
enforce rights under its Chinese mefenpyr (herbicide safener) patent
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The international seed technology company,
Incotec is
to acquire a 49% stake in the Swedish company SeedGard
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Chemtura has
expanded its miticide portfolio with the introduction of Temprano,
an abamectin based acaricide/insecticide
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Greece has recently
renewed its ban on genetically modified maize. Experts fear pollen from
biotech crops, carried by bees, could adversely affect swarms
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Syngenta has expanded its research campus in Stein, Switzerland. The
company has invested some CHF 85 million ($81 million). Biological and
chemical research activities will now be consolidated at one site
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Syngenta's
insecticide, Centric (thiamethoxam) has been approved in the UK for
the control of all the common aphid pests of apples and pears
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Bayer CropScience and
Monsanto have entered into an exclusive agreement on a fungicide seed
treatment for corn
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Bayer's new fungicide, fluopicolide receives registrations in Japan and
the US
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China is to launch a
huge research programme on genetically modified (GM) crops by the end of
the year
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Mexico is about to
clear the way for the legal cultivation of transgenic crops, in spite of
resistance from environmentalists and several small farmer associations
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American Vanguard has acquired Bayer CropScience’s US production
facility in Marsing, Idaho
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Chemtura Corporation has been named by Taminco as
its exclusive distributor for
Thiram Granuflo
in the US
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DuPont, through its
Pioneer Hi-Bred
business, is making genomic sequences of Colletotrichum graminicola
a major fungal pathogen of corn plants publicly available through
GenBank
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Friedrich Berschauer, chairman of the board of management of Bayer
CropScience, has been appointed chairman of CropLife International,
Mr. Hugh Grant, chairman
and CEO of Monsanto, has been appointed vice-chairman
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A study by
the European Pesticides Action Network (PAN) reveals that wines on sale
in the EU may contain residues of t pesticides potentially harmful to
human health. Manufacturers argue that the quantities are so tiny that
drinking wine poses no health risk
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Pioneer Hi-Bred has opened a new state-of-the-art canola production
facility in Lethbridge, US to meet an increased demand for its canola
hybrid
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Valent BioSciences has entered into a
five-year collaborative agreement with the Chengdu Institute of Biology
in China to study the role of abscisic acid (s-ABA) in crop stress
management and plant disease resistance
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Nufarm
Ltd has acquired
AH Marks Holdings Ltd, UK a supplier of phenoxy herbicides and
Etigra in the US
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Cheminova gained market share in 2007. Calculated in Danish kroner,
revenue increased by just over 8%
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Cornell
University has been awarded a $26.8
million grant from the
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation to launch a
broad-based global partnership to combat wheat stem rust
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Monsanto and Divergence have completed the most comprehensive
sequence of the soybean cyst nematode (SCN) genome to date
-
Monsanto is to
invest up to $196 million over the next 18 months at its glyphosate
manufacturing facility in Luling, Louisiana, US
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Nufarm has an operating profit of $35.4 million for the first
six months of its financial year This compares with $7.5 million,
the previous year. Group sales were $990 million, up by 71% from
$580 million
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Andy Lee is named CEO of Sipcam Agro USA and ADVAN
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The European Business Association in Ukraine and the ECPA have
launched a major awareness-raising campaign in Ukraine aimed at
fighting the growing number of fake and dangerous pesticides
appearing on the market
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DuPont’s
insectide Rynaxypyr has been launched in the Philippines as
Prevathon
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DuPont and Arcadia Biosciences have entered a research and
commercial agreement to improve nitrogen use efficiency in corn
-
Monsanto says it has been forced to raise the price of its
Roundup agricultural herbicides because of the current all-time
high demand and a global supply of glyphosate that is unable to keep
up
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Syngenta will donate a portion of its Allelic Diversity collection
to the Maize Functional Diversity Group, a consortium of leading
researchers
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Bayer CropScience
achieved sales in 2007 of €5,826 million compared to € 5,700 million in
2006 up by 5.6% after adjustments for currency and portfolio effects
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Monsanto is establishing
a global seed treatment platform. The company has entered into
agreements with Becker Underwood and Plant Health Care who will provide
novel components for proprietary seed treatments for corn, soybeans and
cotton
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Cheminova has received US
registration for the herbicides Accurate Extra (thifensulfuron +
tribenuron + metsulfuron) and Harass (thifensulfuron) for
selective post emergence weed control in cereal crops
-
BASF
introduced its new development pipeline herbicide saflufenacil under the
trade name Kixor at a Weed Science Society of America meeting
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Syngenta sales at constant exchange rates (CER) increased by 11% in
2007, with growth across all product lines and all regions
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Syngenta
has received US EPA registration for the
fungicide Revus (manipropamid) for use on vegetables and
grapes
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Cheminova is to take on full ownership of Pytech Chemicals
GmbH
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BASF (Agricultural products and
nutrition) sales increased by 1.9% in 2007. Sales in Europe were up
by 4%
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Dow AgroSciences
has detected traces of an unapproved biotech material in three lines
of non-biotech corn seeds
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Pioneer Hi-Bred is to access Syngenta’s novel insect control corn
event, MIR162
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United Phosphorus has acquired the
Colombia-based, Evofarms Group.
The business markets generic crop protection products and holds
several product registrations
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Biotech crop area grew 12% or
12.3million hectares to reach 114.3 million hectares, the second
highest area increase in the past five years, says the ISAAA
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Syngenta and
AgroFresh are to enter an exclusive global strategic alliance to develop
and commercialise Invinsa, a unique product for crop stress
protection in field crops
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Hodogaya Chemical and
United Phosphorus Ltd (UPL) have agreed to establish a joint
venture to market agrochemicals in Japan, with a focus on the non-crop
sector
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BASF
is to give limited access to its triticonazole fungicide to Bayer
Environmental Science in the US and Canada
-
DuPont introduces
two new herbicides Resolve Q (rimsulfuron + thifensulfuron
methyl) and Require Q (rimsulfuron + dicamba) for glyphosate
tolerant corn
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Certis Spain has
added two specialist products to its portfolio the fungicide Cercobin
and the insecticide Trebon
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Sinochem, China has acquired butachlor and alachlor from Monsanto for
use in certain Asian countries and India
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President Nicolas Sarkozy defends the ban on Monsanto's GM 810
maize in France
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Valent sells its Orthene
insecticide product line to AMVAC
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Valent and its
parent company, Sumitomo Chemical, have filed complaints against
Syngenta and a number of its subsidiaries seeking relief for
infringement of Sumitomo Chemical's patent on the insecticide
clothianidin
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Dow Agrosciences
reported record fourth quarter sales of $864 million, 6% higher than
for the same period in 2006
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BASF
and
the
National Institute of Biological
Sciences
(NIBS) in China have entered a cooperation and licensing agreement
in biotechnology
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The US EPA has
approved Syngenta’s insecticide Endigo (lambda-cyhalothrin
and thiamethoxam) for use in potatoes
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France
is to ban the sale of more than 1,500 pesticides starting on 1
February. The country aims to gradually phase out the use of 53
active substances and licences for 30 will be removed this year
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DuPont
has received US EPA approval from for Agility SG
herbicide for wheat. Agility contains four active ingredients
and two modes of action in a single formulation
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American Vanguard Corporation has acquired the pentachloronitrobenzene
fungicide product line from Chemtura including the Turfcide
and Terraclor brands
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Cheminova and the
Stähler Group are to form a partnership with Cheminova acquiring 50% of
the Stähler business
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Bayer
CropScience presents details of a new herbicidal mixture for
preemergence weed control in corn based on thiencarbazone-methyl, a new
sulfonyl-amino-carbonyl-triazolinone (SACT), and isoxaflutole combined a
new safener cyprosulfamiden.
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The
Chinese-led consortium comprising China National Chemical Corporation,
Blackstone Group and Fox Paine Management advised Nufarm that it
was unable to formalise its bid prior the expiry of the period of
exclusivity and discussions between Nufarm and the
consortium have ceased
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Volcano AgroScience, an affiliate of Arysta LifeScience Corporation, is
to form a partnership with Nexus, one of the leading fruit, vine and
cereal crop protection distributors in the Cape region of South Africa
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The US EPA has
approved Bayer CropScience’s postemergence herbicide Laudis (tembotrione)
for use in all corn crops
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Bayer CropScience
is to partner with Soygenetics and the Stine Seed Company to bring
LibertyLink soybean varieties to market by 2009
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Rotam
has received US registration for its post emergence broad leaf weed
herbicide
Volta
(thifensulfuron
methyl)
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DuPont has
received US EPA approval for two pre-emergence herbicides for
soybeans - Enlite and Envive based on flumioxazin
and the sulfonylurea herbicides chlorimuron ethyl and thifensulfuron
methyl
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Bayer CropScience and Euralis Semences will cooperate in the
development of new winter oilseed rape hybrids for European farmers
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The Spanish
Environmental Police (Seprona) detain eleven suspects and
seize 2,200kg of illegal pesticides in Almería
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Tessenderlo
Kerley has acquired the terbacil
crop protection assets from DuPont Crop Protection. Terbacil is
marketed globally as the herbicide
Sinbar
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Agrium, North
America's third largest fertiliser producer, has agreed to buy UAP
Holding for $2.16 billion to double its US retail outlets. The
purchase also includes Loveland crop protection products and UAP's
Dyna-Gro seeds
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Bayer CropScience is
investing EUR 60 million in a new plant , near Cologne, Germany to
be built for the production of MPE (methane phosphonous acid n-butyl
ester). MPE is an intermediate in the production of the herbicide
glufosinate-ammonium
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Makhteshim Agan' sales for the third quarter of 2007, $496.2 million,
were 21.7% higher than in 2006. First nine months sales were 18.1%
higher
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Bayer CropScience sales rose by
10.3% to EUR 1,157 million in the third quarter of 2007
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The US
branch of the Belgium-based Tessenderlo Group has purchased the
Surround crop protection business from BASF
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A
consortium comprising the
China National Chemical
Corporation, ChemChina, the Blackstone Group and Fox Paine Management
makes an offer to acquire 100% of Nufarm shares
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Bayer
CropScience, Mertec and MS Technologies have entered into a long
term collaboration agreement to jointly develop and commercialise
several innovative trait technology products in soybeans
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The UK Government's chief scientific adviser wants to see Britain
"back at the forefront" of the positive use of GM technology
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EU Environment
Commissioner Stavros Dimas has confirmed his refusal to authorise
the cultivation of two varieties of genetically modified corn in the
EU, because of risks to the environment
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Bayer CropScience has received its first regulatory approval for the
new insecticidal active ingredient spirotetramat in Tunisia
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Dow
AgroSciences receives its first global registration for the cereal
herbicide Admitt (pyroxsulam) in Chile
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BASF's Agricultural
Products division opens new laboratory for consumer and
environmental safety in Brazil
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Agrochemicals firm
Punjab Chemicals and Crop Protection has acquired a 30% stake in
US-based Source Dynamic
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Following the European Community Court of First Instance (CFI)
decision to annul the EU registration of the herbicide paraquat,
Syngenta has announced that it will re-apply for a new EU
registration
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Syngenta's third quarter sales increased by 21% to $1.7 billion and
at constant exchange rates (CER) sales were 17% higher. For the first
nine months sales rose 9% (CER) to $7.4 billion
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The
US Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Investigative and
Enforcement Services fails to find "the exact mechanism for
introduction" of Bayer CropSciences' LL traits into the commercial rice
supply
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Monsanto achieved record sales of $8.6 billion in the company's fiscal
year 2007. The year-to-date sales were 17% higher than in year 2006
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BASF
Plant Science and Crop Functional Genomics Center (CFGC), the leading
Korean consortium for crop research have signed a cooperation and
licensing agreement
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President
Nicolas Sarkozy has suspended the commercial cultivation of GM crops
in France
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Arysta
LifeScience has received US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
commercial approval for the soil fumigant Midas (iodomethane)
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European Parliament votes
against an EU-wide use reduction target for pesticides
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Arysta Life Sciences changes hands for $2.2 billion as Olympus
Capital Holdings Asia and co-investors sell to Industrial Equity
Investments Limited (IEIL), an international investment company
located in Ireland
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The Brazilian
agrochemical market is expected to rise to R$5,000 million for
2007. Sales for the first eight months of this year increased
by 45% against 2006 to R$4,711.5
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The Agricultural Products division of BASF has announced that it
will step up its worldwide fight against illegal pesticides
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Devgen is to set up
a subsidiary in the US to develop its crop protection products
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Syngenta has
expanded its AgriEdge Corn Programme for 2008 to include
applications of the fungicide Quilt and the insecticide
Warrior
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Dmrkynetec,
a leading global supplier of agricultural market research has opened a
new office in Poznań, Poland
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DuPont has signed a supply agreement with Prochem
Agritech in the Philippines. Under the agreement, Prochem will
distribute the insecticide indoxacarb
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Volcano
Agroscience a joint venture between Arysta LifeScience and Strand
Agroscience Investment Holdings have opened a new liquid formulation
plant in South Africa
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Arysta LifeScience
has acquired Grupo Bioquimico Mexicano the leading Mexican manufacturer
and marketer of inputs for the fruit and vegetable market
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The
Stähler group has purchased the global development and marketing rights
for the herbicide active ingredient beflubutamide from the Japanese
company, Ube Industries
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Monsanto has acquired Agroeste Sementes, a leading Brazilian corn
seed company, for more than $100 million
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BASF
register Regent (fipronil) for wireworm control in potatoes in the
US
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Bayer to expand sales in its BioScience business from the 2006 level
of €342 million to around €1 billion over the next ten years
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Six contenders
are in the race to acquire Japanese company Arysta LifeScience. The
acquisition is expected to cost nearly $2 billion
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Bayer CropScience sales in the first six months of 2007 were on the
same level as last year at €3.35 billion. Adjusted for currency and
portfolio effects, this corresponds to an increase of 4%
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Dow AgroSciences has
achieved its first global registration of spinetoram, a new spinosyn
insecticide compound. The product will be sold globally under the brand
name Delegate WG in the pome fruit market segment in New Zealand
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Punjab Chemicals &
Crop Protection is acquiring a Netherland-based agrochemical company
Pegevo Beheer for €40 million
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Bayer
CropScience has opened an agricultural technology centre, Campo de
Innovación Tecnológica (CIT) in Argentina
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Monsanto has
received approval in Argentina for the company's stacked corn
trait product containing the insect protection trait YieldGard Corn
Borer with Roundup Ready Corn 2 technology
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Bayer CropScience has received the first regulatory approval for its new
cereal herbicidal active ingredient pyrasulfotole from the US EPA
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Sales by
Isagro, the Italian agrochemical company, rose 26.8% in the first half
of 2007 to €100.95 million
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Bayer CropScience
has been granted regulatory approval for its new insecticide active
ingredient flubendiamide in India. The company plans to launch the
new insecticide under the brand name Fame in 2007
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DuPont and
Makhteshim Agan have reached an agreement whereby Mahkteshim will
acquire Cotoran (fluometron) a herbicide used in cotton in the US
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Syngenta has obtained full regulatory approval in Japan for
Agrisure RW, its corn rootworm insect control corn seed
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Meghmani Organics Ltd obtains registrations for its agrochemical
products in both Brazil and Pakistan
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Makhteshim Agan reports
record revenue and profit for the second quarter of 2007
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Syngenta has
introduced sugar beet in India for cultivation in tropical climatic
conditions
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The first all-African GM corn with resistance to the maize
streak virus (MSV), has been developed by scientists from the
University of Cape Town and Pannar Pty Ltd, a South African seed
company
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from July 2007 |
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Dow AgroSciences is
to expand its Brazilian corn seeds business with the acquisition of
Agromen Tecnologia Ltda
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Arysta
LifeScience and Valent have reached a supply and marketing
agreement in the US for the insecticide active ingredient clothianidin.
Valent will now have rights to enter the crop, ornamental and
professional turf markets
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Nunhems, the Bayer CropScience vegetable seed business, has acquired
the assets of the South Korean vegetable seed company SeedEx
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Syngenta
has acquired an Israeli
vegetable seed company Zeraim Gedera for $95 million
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The European Court of the First
Instance has annulled the inclusion of the non-selective herbicide,
paraquat, in Annex I of the EU agrochemical registration Directive
(91/414)
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Syngenta reports market improvements in 2007. Sales for the fast half of
the year at constant exchange rates were up 6% with growth of 7% in crop
protection and 4% in seeds. EBITDA was 10% higher than for the same period
in 2006
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United Phosphorus acquires the
Argentina- based crop protection company Icona for $10 million
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BASF and Cibus, a US plant
breeding technology company are to collaborate to develop and
commercialise non-GM herbicide tolerance in oilseed rape
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Sumitomo Chemical has acquired an
80% shareholding in the UK agrochemical distributor Interfarm
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The US EPA has
approved the registration of Dow’s insecticide Cobalt for the
broad-spectrum control of insects in row and selected speciality
crops
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Two new studies published by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and
Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) demonstrate the benefits of Bt
cotton farming in India
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Interfarm is to launch
Sumitomo's herbicide flumioxazin in the UK
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Bayer
CropScience has successfully enforced the patent on imidacloprid
against Ki-Hara Chemicals
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DuPont has sold its
fenbutatin-oxide miticide and triphenyltin hydroxide contact fungicide
assets to United Phosphorus Limited
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Syngenta has entered a five-year research collaboration with the
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) in Beijing, China
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CHS and Land O’Lakes,
both located in Minnesota, US, are repositioning Agriliance the North
American agronomy joint venture that they set up in 2000
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FMC Corporation will
phase out its agricultural chemicals operations at its Baltimore
facility in the US by March 2008. All the products currently produced
there will be sourced from FMC's manufacturing alliance partners
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Athenix Corporation and
Monsanto today announced they have
entered into a three-year research collaboration for insect control
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DuPont has opened a new seed research centre in Porto Nacional, Brazil
that will help the company to accelerate its global research
efforts to bring improved genetics and traits to the market faster
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The value of the
French agrochemical market decreased in 2006 to €1,721 million, down
8% compared to 2005 but 20% down in comparison with 1999
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Syngenta’s
herbicide, Prefix (S-metolachlor and fomesafen) is now
registered by the US EPA as a premix formulation.
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Monsanto has reported a 71% increase in net income for the third
quarter compared to the previous year. Net sales for the quarter
grew 23%
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DuPont Crop Protection is to give
Marrone Organic Innovations (MOI) exclusive access to its natural
product discoveries for development as biopesticide products
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Bayer CropScience has completed the acquisition of Stoneville
Pedigreed Seed Company from Monsanto Company after US authorities
approved the transaction
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Evogene
Ltd and
Bayer CropScience are to collaborate to increase the productivity
and yield of Bayer 's core crops with regard to stress
conditions such as drought
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Bayer CropScience and Monsanto have entered into a series of
long-term business and licensing agreements related to key enabling
agricultural technologies
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The UK's Pesticide
Safety Directorate (PSD) has decided that additional resistance
management advice should be added to the labels of all foliar applied
DMI
fungicides with recommendations for the control of
Septoria tritici
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The US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has granted experimental use permits (EUP) for
DuPont’s Rynaxypyr based insecticides Altacor and Coragen
for use on 10 fruit and vegetable crops in 16 US states
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Dow AgroSciences
has received EPA registration for
SureStart
(acetochlor + flumetsulam + clopyralid),
a new soil-applied herbicide specifically designed for use in Roundup
Ready corn
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Pioneer Hi-Bred International and DuPont Crop Protection have introduced
a new, broad-spectrum weed control option for sunflower growers, Pioneer
brand sunflower hybrids with the DuPont ExpressSun trait
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Syngenta
has agreed to take a 49% minority stake in Sanbei Seed Co Ltd, a leading
Chinese corn seed company headquartered in Longhua, Hebei Province
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Representatives of Europe's leading crop protection companies and the
Russian government have launched a campaign to counter the growing
challenge of counterfeit pesticides and illegal trade in pesticides
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After two difficult quarters, Makhteshim Agan Industries has
reported record sales during the first quarter of 2007, $559.3
million compared to $493.9 million in 2006, an increase of 13.3%
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Monsanto moved
quickly to complete the $1.5 billion acquisition of Delta and Pine
Land (DPL) following the US Justice Department’s recent decision to
give the deal the green light
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Bayer
CropScience’s will acquire the Stoneville Pedigree Seed Company from
Monsanto for $310 million. The acquisition is still subject to the
approval of the US competition authorities
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Monsanto will
sell its NexGen cotton seed brand and related business assets to
Americot for $6.8 million
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Dow AgroSciences
says it is committed to supporting and investing in the future of
1,3-D in the UK, EU and globally despite the product failing to
achieve EU Annex I inclusion
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Researchers at
the University of Nebraska have successfully modified crops to
resist the broadleaf herbicide dicamba
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Cheminova and Eden Research, a UK
agrochemical development company, have entered into an exclusive
licensing agreement for Europe, CIS and the Americas for Eden’s
terpene-based botrytis products
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Cheminova has acquired a
majority shareholding
in the Hungarian company
Kerolagro,
an
independent distributor of plant protection and plant nutrition products
for both crop and non-crop uses.
- Syngenta Crop Protection has
launched Halex GT, a new corn herbicide based on mesotrione,
specifically designed to improve glyphosate-tolerant (GT) corn
production in the US
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DuPont plan to add more than 400 positions, mainly
in research and development, in its seed subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred
International. Pioneer will also be expanding R&D efforts at 67 of its
92 research centres worldwide
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Bayer CropScience has
launched two products in the US based on the active ingredient
prothioconazole. Provost (prothioconazole + tebuconazole)
controls a range of foliar and soilborne diseases that attack peanut
plants. Proline
(prothioconazole) is mainly for the cereal grains market
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Isagro has
received permanent registration (Section 3) from the US EPA for
tetraconazole and orthosulfamuron
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Gowan Company has acquired the marketing rights in Canada to the
active ingredient pyridaben and is marketing it under the NeXter
brand name
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After a very
significant decrease in the market in 2005 (down 14.8%) sales of
agrochemicals in Spain in 2006 reached €555.70 million,
up 2.8% on the previous year
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The US EPA has approved a request for a specific Section 18
exemption for six fungicides containing the active ingredient
tebuconazole to control scab (Fusarium head blight) in wheat and
barley.
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The EPA has granted Bayer CropScience a Section 3 approval for
Stratego, a premix of trifloxystrobin and propiconazole for use on
soybeans
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FMC Corporation
has secured
from Sankyo Agro exclusive access to simeconazole, a proprietary,
triazole fungicide
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Bayer CropScience's
sales ended the year at
€5,700
million, down 3.3% compared to the previous year. Crop Protection
sales decreased by 4.7% to
€
4,644 million
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Bayer
CropScience plans to grow its business in China from the current level
of €65 million (2006) to over €100 million in the medium term. It will
also expand its production site for crop protection products in Hangzhou
by investing a further €25 million in 2007 and 2008
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BASF’s insecticide fipronil has been authorised for Annex I listing by
the EU Commission
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Syngenta has acquired the Fischer group for around $67 million cash.
Fischer is a private company specialising in the breeding and marketing
of flower crops
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Bayer
CropScience has recently received EPA registration for its fungicide
Provost (prothioconazole + tebuconazole) for use on peanuts for the
control of the major foliar and soilborne diseases
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The peak sales potential of BASF's development pipeline has
increased to €800 million. BASF is currently working on developing
seven new active ingredients and on one new herbicide tolerance
project
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Makhteshim
Agan Industries posted a net loss of
$38.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2006. The company ended 2006
with sales of around $1.8 billion, up just 2% on 2005
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FMC has
received approval for its insecticide Beleaf (flonicamide) for
use on potatoes to control a variety of insect pests including aphids,
tarnished plant bugs, Western plant bugs and leafhoppers
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Amvac have
reported net sales of $193.8, up 2% from $189.8 in 2005
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The South African
government has rejected Syngenta’s application to grow genetically
modified (GM) maize in South Africa for the biofuel industry
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Monsanto is to
provide academic researchers and public institutions with free access to
its new cyst nematode marker technology
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Sales of agricultural products by
BASF drop 6.6% in 2006 to
€3,079
million. R&D
expenses increased by 10% to
€334 million.
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Syngenta
increased its net profit by 12% last year to a record $872 million while
sales dipped by 1% to $8.05 billion
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At a public hearing in the European Parliament
the
European Crop Protection Association (ECPA)
has called on stakeholders to support a new plant protection marketing
regulation that stimulates innovation in new products
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from January 2007 |
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Isagro has set up a
distribution and marketing agreement with RiceCo in the US for its new
rice herbicide Strada (orthosulfamuron)
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Bayer
CropScience has started launching its potato blight fungicide
Infinito (fluopicolide) into additional European markets. The
product has now gained regulatory approval in Poland and Germany, and
can also be used in Austria
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Dupont has finalised supply
agreements with Mitsui Chemicals for the fungicide penthiopyrad
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Syngenta has received US EPA
approval for its insect trait stack (corn rootworm plus European corn
borer). This approval enables Syngenta to launch a triple stacked corn
that includes glyphosate tolerance.
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Syngenta and Diversa Corporation have agreed a new 10-year research and
development partnership focused on the discovery and development of a
range of novel enzymes for use in the production of biofuel
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Chemtura has signed a global agreement to develop and commercialise
Kureha's ipconazole for seed treatment uses
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Syngenta is cutting the prices of its agrochemical products by 20 %
for Swiss farmers following criticism from the authorities regarding
excessive high pricing
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Bayer CropScience and Plant Health Care Inc are to develop new
seed treatment solutions based on Plant Health Care´s Myconate
technology used in combination with Bayer's seed treatment products
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AMVAC has entered into an agreement with
DuPont Crop Protection so that
AMVAC’s newly launched corn herbicide Impact (topamezone) can be
used as part of Pioneer's TruChoice Opportunity Programme
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Sci-Protek will distribute
Exosect's new Exosex Mating Disruption Products to US growers
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Bayer CropScience has received its first approval for the new
corn herbicide Laudis (tembotrione) in Austria
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The European CRO,
Agrisearch, acquired by Eurofins in 2006, has formed a North
American subsidiary Eurofins/ Agrisearch Americas Inc to service the
crop protection industry in the US
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