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Conab lowers Brazil's 2015/16 soybean and corn crops

Date：May. 12, 2016 Category：Markets

In their latest monthly report released recently, Conab lowered the 2015/16 soybean and corn production estimates for Brazil.

Tags:Brazil Planting Area Soybean Maize
Monsanto showed confidence in its innovation-based growth drivers

Date：May. 11, 2016 Category：Companies
Monsanto Company

During the Wells Fargo 2016 Industrials and Chemicals Conference in New York, Monsanto Company’s vice president and chief commercial officer Mike Frank highlig...

Tags:Monsanto Application & Technology US Soybean
From agri-friendly budget to positive monsoon forecast: Will 2016 be a year for Indian agriculture?

Date：May. 11, 2016 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

With the need to instill the same confidence in farmers about what the future entails for their source of livelihood, as among experts, it is time to really ref...

Tags:India Weather
Bayer CropScience: US Soybean growers ensuring they can market what they plant

Date：May. 10, 2016 Category：Markets
Bayer CropScience U.S.

Soybeans, once considered such a simple crop to grow and market, is becoming more complicated. It's downright confusing when you consider that some new soybean ...

Tags:Bayer CropScience US Soybean

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PrecisionHawk and DJI to build an Ag analytics solution

Date：May. 9, 2016 Category：Companies
PrecisionHawk

PrecisionHawk and DJI have announced an exclusive partnership to offer the agriculture market with a complete agricultural analytics solution by linking DJI's c...

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China's soybean industry on the rise

Date：May. 9, 2016 Category：Markets

China's soybean acreage will increase by 400,000 hectares this year as a result of a government-led initiative to increase the supply of domestic soybeans.

Tags:China Planting Area Soybean
Global smart irrigation market to reach $1,504.6 mn by 2022

Date：May. 9, 2016 Category：Markets

According to the report of "Smart Irrigation Market Global Forecast to 2022",the smart irrigation market based on irrigation controllers and hardware & network ...

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EU amended rules of agrochem approval in organic farming

Date：May. 9, 2016 Category：Regulations

Rules for approving agrochemical products which can be used in EU organic farming in future have been simplified to facilitate a more efficient and transparent ...
AgTech Accelerator formed by Bayer, Syngenta, other investors

Date：May. 9, 2016 Category：Companies

AgTech Accelerator, a unique startup accelerator vehicle dedicated to emerging agricultural technologies, recently launched with $11.5 million in initial closin...

Tags:Investment & Expansion
SLANTRANGE launches new product line for precision agriculture

Date：May. 6, 2016 Category：Companies

SLANTRANGE, pioneers of a smarter approach to aerial remote sensing and analytics for agriculture, recently announced the launch of a new product line that will...
WSSA calculates billions in potential economic losses from uncontrolled weeds

Date：May. 5, 2016 Category：Markets

What losses would corn and soybean growers experience if they were forced to eliminate herbicides and other control techniques from their weed management toolbo...
Precision farming could spell shake-up for crop chemicals sector

Date：May. 5, 2016 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Global pesticides, seed and fertilizer companies may be forced to re-engineer their business models as farmers adopt precision technology that helps maximise ha...
ABI Chairman: GM maize in South Africa planted on nearly 20 million Ha in 16 years

Date：May. 5, 2016 Category：Markets

The year 2015 marked the 20th anniversary (18 in South Africa) of the global production of GM crops (1996–2015). The first GM crop in South Africa, cotton, was...
Harvard team develops tech against agricultural pests

Date：May. 4, 2016 Category：Science&Research
Monsanto Company

Harvard scientists have developed molecules that may help to solve one of the most pressing problems in modern agriculture: the rise of insects that are resista...

Tags:Monsanto Application & Technology
Grain traders rejecting new soybeans from Monsanto

Date：May. 4, 2016 Category：Markets
Monsanto Company

U.S. grain companies plan to reject Monsanto Co.'s new genetically modified soybeans, over concerns that they could disrupt international trade without a key re...

Tags:Monsanto Soybean
AgGateway offers special workshop on the new ADAPT Toolkit

Date：May. 3, 2016 Category：Companies
AgGateway Corporation

AgGateway is offering a special ADAPT workshop with technical and business tracks on June 16 in Minneapolis to provide guidance to software developers and busin...

Tags:Application & Technology
Syngenta ready to expand Cellerate process technology

Date：May. 3, 2016 Category：Companies
Syngenta United States

Syngenta is hoping by 2017 to bring on line at two U.S. corn ethanol plants a bolt-on system that allows companies to add cellulosic ethanol to their production...

Tags:Syngenta Application & Technology Investment & Expansion
PrecisionHawk announces DuPont as newest investor

Date：May. 2, 2016 Category：Companies
PrecisionHawk

PrecisionHawk – a leading provider of aerial data and safety platforms for drones – announced recently that DuPont has joined its previously announced round o...

Tags:DuPont Investment & Expansion
Africa’s farming potential hinges on infrastructure boost

Date：Apr. 29, 2016 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Africa’s huge agricultural potential holds the promise of covering much of the planet’s nutrition needs, but the continent is hampered by lack of infrastructu...

Tags:Africa
Can digital farming deliver on its promise?

Date：Apr. 28, 2016 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Precision Ag has been the hot topic in the Agtech sector, particularly with the acquisition of the first “Ag Unicorn” Climate Corp by Monsanto and the subsequ...
Canadian famers intended to plant 23.8m acres wheat this year

Date：Apr. 28, 2016 Category：Markets

Canadian wheat sowings will drop less sharply than thought this year, as rising durum and winter wheat seedings outweigh a fall in spring wheat sowings.

Tags:Canada Planting Area wheat
Vietnam hit by worst drought in nearly a century

Date：Apr. 28, 2016 Category：Markets

Vietnam's breadbasket southwestern region has been hit by the worst drought in 90 years, badly damaging the nation's economy.

Tags:Vietnam Weather
Valley Irrigation recognized as a Groundwater Guardian Green Site

Date：Apr. 27, 2016 Category：Companies

Valley® Irrigation, The Leader in Precision Irrigation®, has been recognized as a Groundwater Guardian Green Site by the Groundwater Foundation.
USDA to grant $22 mn for citrus greening research

Date：Apr. 25, 2016 Category：Markets

USDA will grant $22 million for research on citrus greening disease - the pathogen that has devastated citrus production in Florida.

Tags:Pests&Diseases US Citrus greening
Adama and SwarmFarm collaborate to develop robot applicators

Date：Apr. 22, 2016 Category：Companies

Adama Agricultural Solutions recently announced that it has partnered with SwarmFarm Robotics, a young, innovative Australian technology company, in a joint dev...

Tags:Collaboration ADAMA
Bayer and Hamburg University collaborate to develop new digital solutions for sustainable agriculture

Date：Apr. 22, 2016 Category：Companies
Bayer CropScience AG

Bayer and the University of Hamburg (Institute of Geography and Department of Informatics), have agreed to enter into a five-year research partnership aiming at...

Tags:Collaboration Bayer CropScience
Trimble establishes global Vantage distribution network to serve precision agriculture industry

Date：Apr. 21, 2016 Category：Companies
Trimble

Trimble announced recently that it is extending its distribution channel by establishing a new global network of independent distribution partners to serve the ...
New research reveals how farmers plan to survive ag economy downturn

Date：Apr. 21, 2016 Category：Markets

As the ag economy continues to struggle under the weight of low commodity prices and decreasing land values, farmers are looking to find ways to cut expenses an...
EFSA finds treatment can’t eliminate Xylella from infected olive trees

Date：Apr. 21, 2016 Category：Science&Research

Treatments being tested on olive trees in Apulia reduce the symptoms of disease caused by Xylella fastidiosa but do not eliminate the pathogen from infected pla...

Tags:Europe Pests&Diseases
Japan and AfricaRice promote ‘RiceAdvice’ app

Date：Apr. 20, 2016 Category：Markets

With a $1.8 million grant from the Government of Japan, the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) has launched a 1-year project to disseminate a customized crop manag...

Tags:Collaboration Japan Africa Rice

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: Registration & Launch

Corteva Agriscience registers herbicides Agixa and Baxiga in Turkey
UPL AgroSolutions' BATALIUM Herbicide registered in Canada

Corteva Agriscience registers herbicides Agixa and Baxiga in Turkey
UPL AgroSolutions' BATALIUM Herbicide registered in Canada

: Collaborations & Licences

Agricenter to exclusive distribute STK Products in Central America
Argentina: CEDEVA and Biofabrica Misiones signed agreement to build bio-inputs lab

Agricenter to exclusive distribute STK Products in Central America
Argentina: CEDEVA and Biofabrica Misiones signed agreement to build bio-inputs lab

: Mergers & Acquisitions

Gowan Group acquires Brazilian Company Cross Link
Rallis India net profit drops 93% in March quarter

Gowan Group acquires Brazilian Company Cross Link
Rallis India net profit drops 93% in March quarter

: Sales Performance

KWS well on track after the first nine month 2018/2019 – Annual forecast concretized
Isagro sales down 8% in Q1 2019

KWS well on track after the first nine month 2018/2019 – Annual forecast concretized
Isagro sales down 8% in Q1 2019

: Investment & Expansion

Beck’s to expand seed processing capabilities at Indiana headquarters
Joyn Bio Opens New Plant Sciences Facility to Accelerate Testing of Engineered Microbes for Agriculture

Beck’s to expand seed processing capabilities at Indiana headquarters
Joyn Bio Opens New Plant Sciences Facility to Accelerate Testing of Engineered Microbes for Agriculture

Answer

: What options/alternatives farmers in China have replacing paraquat? Are there other useful herbicdes, i.e. diquat, glufosinate (which others) that can cover this gap? Would the replacements be related to higher costs as well? What crop protection startegies would farmers adapt replacing paraquat?

1 Like 1 AnswersSir, thanks for question. For weed control, Glyphosate and Glufosinate are the main options while many other broad spectrum herbicides also ...All

: Asian soybean rust is the most important disease in soybean, the yield loss being from 10% to 90%, dependent on the geographical region where the disease was reported. What are the key points in controlling Asian rust?

The use of an efficient product since the beginning of the soy cycle is one of the most important decisions for growers after the crop impla...All