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from April 2008 |
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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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Headlines
from March 2008 |
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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
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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
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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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Headlines
from February 2008 |
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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
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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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Headlines
from January 2008 |
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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
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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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Headlines
from December 2007 |
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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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Headlines
from November 2007 |
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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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BASF's Agricultural
Products division opens new laboratory for consumer and
environmental safety in Brazil
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Dow
AgroSciences receives its first global registration for the cereal
herbicide Admitt (pyroxsulam) in Chile
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Headlines
from October 2007 |
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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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Headlines
from September 2007 |
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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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Headlines
from August 2007 |
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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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Headlines
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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Headlines
from June 2007 |
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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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from May 2007 |
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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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from April 2007 |
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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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Headlines
from March 2007 |
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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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2004 - 2006 |