Tradecorp Acquires Spain’s Idai Nature

One to watch in the growing agribotics niche is Naïo Technologies out of Toulouse, France.

The U.S. Justice Department has approved Bayer AG’s acquisition of Monsanto Co. after the companies pledged to sell off additional assets to secure government antitrust approval.

The brands include Mahalaxmi (sorghum), Atheeva (pearl millet) and SX-17 (fodder sorghum).

Adama: Procurement costs in the second half of 2017 were higher in comparison to 2016, which is expected to impact production costs going forward.

Commission concluded that the divestment package enables a suitable buyer to sustainably replace Bayer’s competitive effect in these markets and continue to innovate, for the benefit of European farmers and consumers.

In 2017, Romanian agricultural output made history.

Bayer sued the agency over Russia’s demands that Bayer share its technology with the local agricultural sector.

BASF is in exclusive talks to acquire Bayer’s entire vegetable seeds business, operating under the global trademark Nunhems.

Bayer: “EFSA’s conclusions do not justify further neonicotinoid use restrictions.”