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Headlines from July
2010 |
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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
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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
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American Vanguard
Corporation has acquired the cotton defoliant product Def (tribufos)
from Bayer CropScience
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Agrium
Inc has acquired 24 retail farm centres in Argentina from DuPont Crop
Protection
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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
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Monsanto has
recently completed its regulatory submission to the US Department of
Agriculture for dicamba tolerant soybeans
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BASF and Monsanto are to
expand their joint efforts to develop higher yielding and stress
tolerant crops by including wheat
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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
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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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Headlines from June
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
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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
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Syngenta
will assume responsibility for the supply and distribution of Dow
groSciences crop protection products in the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS) region
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The Sipcam-Oxon Group
has acquired a minority stake in the Germany-based biorational crop
protection company, Prophyta Biologischer Pflanzenschutz
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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
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Arysta
LifeScience and Cheminova have reached an agreement to cooperate in
Spain
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The US EPA has taken the decision to phase out all uses of the
insecticide endosulfan in the US
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Syngenta Seeds
has received approval from the Japanese regulatory authorities for
the Agrisure Viptera trait
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Swiss-based
Andermatt
Biocontrol AG , has founded a
subsidiary company in South Africa
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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 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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Headlines from May
2010 |
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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
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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
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Valent has announced
plans to launch Fierce, a new residual herbicide for corn and
soybeans, in 2011
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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
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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
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ECPA has
called for a European partnership for speciality crops
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Bayer's potato
haulm desiccant is registered in the US
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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
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BASF has received
registration from the US EPA for Charter F2 fungicide seed
treatment
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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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Headlines from April
2010 |
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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
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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
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BASF
Crop Protection has announced a new fungicide active ingredient called
Xemium
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Monsanto has unveiled
its product strategy to bring volume growth through upgrades on existing
acres and by winning new customers
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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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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
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A $15
million expansion of the manufacturing operations at Bayer CropScience,
Muskegon Industrial Park, US was recently completed
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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
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Valent has received
additional EPA registrations for its insecticide Belay
(clothianidin) for use on a growing list of fruit, vegetable and nut
crops
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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
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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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A new
Poncho/VOTiVO
seed treatment from Bayer CropScience has received registration from the
US EPA for use on corn
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GfK Kynetec has acquired the non-crop
business of the UK based Agricultural Information Services (AIS)
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Headlines from March
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
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Monsanto has opened
its new glyphosate production facility in Luling, US
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Novozymes Biologicals
BioAg Group has launched Met52 Granular as a bioinsecticide for
use in Canada
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Marrone Bio
Innovations has submitted two new agricultural biopesticides to
the US EPA
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Oxford Plant Sciences
(OPS) is merging with the French contract research organisation, Staphyt
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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
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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
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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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Headlines from February 2010 |
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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
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Advanta US has
acquired the business and assets of the Texas-based Crosbyton Seed
Company
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The European
Commission has approved Amflora, BASF's genetically optimised
starch potato, for commercial application in Europe
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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
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Bayer CropScience’s new insecticide
Movento, has been
approved in the UK for use on both salad and brassica crops
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Monsanto has received
approval from the US EPA for the sale of a new formulation of acetochlor
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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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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
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US-based
Divergence has received two Small Business Innovation Research
grants totaling $500,000 to support innovative work on
nematodes
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Marrone Bio
Innovations has demonstrated that mixtures of copper with the
biofungicide Regalia are effective in controlling walnut
blight
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Syngenta
Seedcare has received US EPA
registration for the use of Cruiser insecticide seed
treatment on sugar beet
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Cibus
Global has been granted a European patent for the production of
crops resistant to glyphosate.
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Certis Italy has
recently received registration for a biocide disinfectant,
JetFive
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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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Syngenta's
Cruiser
insecticide seed treatment has received US EPA registration
for use on sugar beet
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Headlines from January 2010 |
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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
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EU
member states have voted in favour of having malathion back on the
market in Europe
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Germany-based
Neudorff has assigned a number of biopesticide products to Certis
USA
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Monsanto plans to
become a part of the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in
Kannapolis, US
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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
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The Willowood Group
has also acquired Shreeji Pesticides, an Indian contract manufacturer of
agrochemicals
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Dow AgroSciences and KeyGene
N.V. have entered into a trait development agreement
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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
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Dow AgroSciences has
sold its thifluzamide fungicide business to Nissan
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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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Headlines from December 2009 |
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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
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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
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AUSVEG and
Bayer CropScience are forming a partnership that will share research and
information on the threats to vegetable crops
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Syngenta has received
approval for the cultivation of its genetically modified corn trait
Bt11xGA21 from the Ministry of Agriculture in Argentina
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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
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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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Headlines from November 2009 |
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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
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BASF Crop Protection
is launching new, eco-friendly packaging for its crop protection
products in Europe
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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%
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Bayer
CropScience and GVK Biosciences Private Limited (GVK BIO), Hyderabad,
India, have entered into a research cooperation
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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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Headlines from October 2009 |
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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
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Bayer
CropScience sales in the third quarter of 2009 were down by 8.7% to
€1,140 million
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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
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Makhteshim
Agan North America (MANA) Crop Protection has acquired Bold Formulators,
a US custom formulator, manufacturer and packager of agrochemical
products
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DuPont has received registration approvals in
Japan and Brazil for insect control products based on
Rynaxypyr (chlorantraniliprole)
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Bayer CropScience has
officially opened its new Cotton Research and Development Laboratory in
Lubbock, Texas
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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Monsanto has received
approval from the Agriculture Ministry and Minister of Environment in
Mexico for small scale field trials of its corn traits
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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
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Arysta LifeScience North America has
announced the introduction of a new insect control technology
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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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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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Headlines from September 2009
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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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Headlines from August 2009
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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
-
Syngenta Seed Care
has entered into a partnership with
Incotec
that will enhance quality control and assurance during the treatment of
fruiting vegetable seed
-
Dow AgroSciences has
submitted the first product of a new family of herbicide tolerance
traits to the US Department of Agriculture
-
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
-
BASF’s herbicide
Frequency has received approval from the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for broad spectrum weed control on
bareground
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Monsanto is
planning to create a separate division for its Roundup
(glyphosate) and other herbicides business
-
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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- The
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
-
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.
-
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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Headlines
from March 2009 |
- 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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Headlines
from February 2009 |
- 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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Headlines
from January 2009 |
- 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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from December 2008 |
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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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from November 2008 |
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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
-
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
-
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
-
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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Headlines
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)
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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
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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
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Syngenta
Professional Products has launched a new turf fungicide, Renown
(chlorthalonil and azoxystrobin)
-
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
-
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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Headlines
from September 2008 |
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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
-
Tessenderlo Kerley has acquired the assets, marketing
and distribution channels of Agrochem of Istanbul and Izmir, Turkey
-
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
-
Nufarm has
reported a
39% increase
in revenue from $1.79 billion in fiscal year 2007 to $2.49 billion in
2008
-
DuPont has opened a
new $2.5 million corn research centre in Bangalore, India
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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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Headlines
from August 2008 |
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After trading as
Agrisearch for more than 25 years the UK CRO is to become Eurofins
Agroscience Services
-
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
-
Monsanto and Pilot
Grove Cooperative Elevator have announced that they have settled a two
year dispute involving a Roundup Ready patent infringement
-
Bayer CropScience has
been granted its first regulatory approval for the new corn herbicide
thiencarbazone-methyl in Romania
-
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
-
DuPont has been
awarded a 2008 R&D 100 Award for Rynaxypyr, its advanced insect
control product
-
Makhteshim Agan
sales in the second quarter were 25.8% higher at a record $682.3
million, compared with $542.5 million in 2007
-
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
-
Monsanto is to brand its new seed
performance technology
Acceleron
-
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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Headlines
from July 2008 |
- 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
-
The US EPA is
taking action to stop the use of the insecticide carbofuran on all food
crops, including those that are imported
-
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
-
Bayer CropScience has launched a new
herbicide Ignite (glufosinate ammonium) as a nonselective
alternative to glyphosate
-
A new
co-formulated cereal seed treatment from Syngenta, Celest Extra, brings
together the triazole fungicide difenoconazole with fludioxinil
-
The
European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) has reported that the Polish
security service has recently tracked down a consignment of counterfeit
pesticides
-
Margarita, an international investment company based in Madeira has
acquired 70% of the shares held by Sipcam in Sariaf Gowan in Italy
-
Bayer
CropScience’s herbicide active ingredient tembotrione has been approved
for use in Brazil
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Gowan Company is to acquire the global rights to Dow AgroSciences’
zoxamide fungicide business
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from June 2008 |
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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
-
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
-
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
-
Nufarm has acquired
the global trademarks, registrations and assets of a number of DuPont’s
cotton products
-
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
-
Nufarm has negotiated
separate agreements with a number of leading Chinese companies involved
in the manufacture of glyphosate
-
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
-
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
-
Certis Europe has
reported year end results of €113 million, showing a 31% increase in
turnover to March 2008
-
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
-
Monsanto has
acquired Semillas Cristiani Burkard (SCB), a privately-held seed
company headquartered in Guatemala
-
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
-
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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Headlines
from May 2008 |
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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
-
BASF
and
Academia Sinica,
the leading research institute in Taiwan have entered a research
cooperation agreement that will focus on rice and corn
-
DuPont and Rotam have entered
into a patent non-assertion agreement with regard to nicosulfuron in the
US
-
The US EPA has
approved Bayer's herbicide Laudis (tembotrione) for use in all
corn crops
-
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
-
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
-
Monsanto will
market iprodione under the Bayer trademark Rovral R to
Western Canadian growers
-
The French
parliament has adopted a controversial bill on genetically modified
(GM) crops
-
DuPont
receives US and Canadian approval for products containing Rynaxypyr
-
Aceto Corporation has sold its phorate product line to American
Vanguard Chemical Corporation (AMVAC)
-
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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Headlines
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
-
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
-
Monsanto and Mendel
Biotechnology are to conduct joint research on perennial grass seed as a
second generation biofuel
-
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
-
Syngenta sales grow
20% at constant exchange rates compared with the first quarter of 2007
-
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
-
Greece has recently
renewed its ban on genetically modified maize. Experts fear pollen from
biotech crops, carried by bees, could adversely affect swarms
-
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
-
Syngenta's
insecticide, Centric (thiamethoxam) has been approved in the UK for
the control of all the common aphid pests of apples and pears
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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%
-
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
-
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
-
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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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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Cheminova is to take on full ownership of Pytech Chemicals
GmbH
-
BASF (Agricultural products and
nutrition) sales increased by 1.9% in 2007. Sales in Europe were up
by 4%
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Certis Spain has
added two specialist products to its portfolio the fungicide Cercobin
and the insecticide Trebon
-
Sinochem, China has acquired butachlor and alachlor from Monsanto for
use in certain Asian countries and India
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
The Agricultural Products division of BASF has announced that it
will step up its worldwide fight against illegal pesticides
-
Devgen is to set up
a subsidiary in the US to develop its crop protection products
-
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
-
Volcano
Agroscience a joint venture between Arysta LifeScience and Strand
Agroscience Investment Holdings have opened a new liquid formulation
plant in South Africa
-
Arysta LifeScience
has acquired Grupo Bioquimico Mexicano the leading Mexican manufacturer
and marketer of inputs for the fruit and vegetable market
-
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
-
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
-
Six contenders
are in the race to acquire Japanese company Arysta LifeScience. The
acquisition is expected to cost nearly $2 billion
-
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
-
Punjab Chemicals &
Crop Protection is acquiring a Netherland-based agrochemical company
Pegevo Beheer for €40 million
-
Bayer
CropScience has opened an agricultural technology centre, Campo de
Innovación Tecnológica (CIT) in Argentina
-
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
-
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
-
DuPont and
Makhteshim Agan have reached an agreement whereby Mahkteshim will
acquire Cotoran (fluometron) a herbicide used in cotton in the US
-
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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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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