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Syngenta Publishes Agricultural Efficiency Data from 41 Countries

Posted by Jackie Pucci|23 April 2015

Includes 2014 baseline information for agricultural efficiency indicators collected on 3,600 farms in 41 countries across Europe, Africa, Latin America, North America and Asia Pacific.

Africa/Middle East

Stockton Group in Distribution Deal with Engage Agro

Posted by Jackie Pucci|21 April 2015

Agrochemicals

BASF Fights Counterfeiting in China with New Product Label

Posted by Jackie Pucci|20 April 2015

Agrochemicals

FCI Trade Summit: Risk Management and the Value Chain

By David Frabotta|20 April 2015

Industry News

Eurofins Agroscience Services Hires Leader for Ecotoxicology Cluster

Posted by Dan Jacobs|20 April 2015

Agrochemicals

Strong Dollar, Long U.S. Winter Hit Syngenta Sales

Posted by Jackie Pucci|17 April 2015

Agrochemicals

Brandt Expands Distribution with Beijing Office, Distribution Agreements

Posted by Dan Jacobs|16 April 2015

In an effort to expand the company’s reach in...

Agrochemicals

FMC Joins Field to Market

Posted by Dan Jacobs|15 April 2015

FMC Corporation, a specialty company focused on agriculture, health and...

Agrochemicals

Syngenta Soybean Breeding Program Honored

Posted by Dan Jacobs|15 April 2015

Syngenta’s soybean breeding program “Good Growth through Advanced Analytics” earned the...

Industry News

Arysta LifeScience Hires Marketing Manager for U.S. Row Crops

Posted by Dan Jacobs|15 April 2015

Arysta LifeScience North America recently hired Deneen Sebastian as its...

Agrochemicals

Weeds to Watch 2015: Resistance Remains Riling

By Eric Sfiligoj|14 April 2015

Although several trade shows/groups are commemorating various anniversaries during...

Agrochemicals

Isagro Announces New Research Center

Posted by Dan Jacobs|14 April 2015

Isagro S.p.A. inaugurated, a New Research Center (NRC) in Novara, near the company’s Milan HQ. The facility encompasses 9,400 sq.m. of…

Agrochemicals

Crop Virus Finds Its Way to North America

Posted by Dan Jacobs|13 April 2015

A crop virus which has affected staple food crops in Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia has been found for the…

Agrochemicals

Eden Enters Agreement for B2Y Nematicide

Posted by Dan Jacobs|13 April 2015

Eden Research Plc signed an exclusive option agreement with Taminco BVBA’ s crop protection division to conduct market and regulatory…

Agrochemicals

Sumitomo Launches Distribution Holding Company in Chile

Posted by Jackie Pucci|10 April 2015

Sumitomo Corp. said it started operations of Summit Agro South America SpA, a holding company supervising crop protection product distribution…

Agrochemicals

China’s Pesticide Export Volume Rises 6% in 2014; Imports Climb 21%

Posted by Jackie Pucci|7 April 2015

Exports valued at $4.147 billion, up 10.7% year over year.

Asia

New Leadership Announced at China’s ICAMA

Posted by Jackie Pucci|7 April 2015

Liu Jiemin was appointed Head (bureau-level) of ICAMA,

Agrochemicals

American Vanguard Acquires European Nematicide Assets

Posted by Dan Jacobs|7 April 2015

American Vanguard Corp., through its international subsidiary AMVAC Netherlands B.V., has acquired Adama Agricultural Solutions Ltd.’s European Nemacur insecticide/nematicide business assets. The…

Agrochemicals

New EPA Glyphosate Restrictions Leaked To Reuters

Posted by Dan Jacobs|6 April 2015

U.S. regulators will put new restrictions on the world’s most widely used herbicide to help address the rapid expansion of…

Agrochemicals

Dow in R&D Collaboration with Radiant on Natural Crop Protection

Posted by Jackie Pucci|3 April 2015

Collaboration combines proprietary metagenomic and engineering-biology technologies from Radiant with Dow’s natural products discovery and product development capabilities.