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Topcon formed the Topcon Agriculture Group

Date：Jun. 8, 2016 Category：Companies

Topcon Positioning Group has formed the Topcon Agriculture Group, a new global organization that further incorporates its precision agriculture business with re...
MEPs voted on reports for technological and innovative solutions in farming

Date：Jun. 8, 2016 Category：Markets

MEPs yesterday voted on two own-initiative reports: 'Technological solutions for sustainable agriculture' from Conservative MEP Anthea McIntyre, and 'Enhancing ...
South Africa faces similar MPCI issues

Date：Jun. 8, 2016 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Attempts to get a viable multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) system working in South Africa are running into similar obstacles as Australia, according to a MPCI s...
Domestic soybean prices surge in Brazil

Date：Jun. 7, 2016 Category：Markets

Not only are corn prices at record high levels in southern Brazil, old crop soybean prices at the Port of Paranagua are also hitting record levels.

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Colombia using just 35% of its agricultural land

Date：Jun. 7, 2016 Category：Markets

65% of Colombia’s farmland is not used or underused, according to a government report.
Ukraine sunflower area expands by 15% in 2016

Date：Jun. 3, 2016 Category：Markets

Ukraine has almost completed the 2016 sunflower sowing, seeding a total of 5.3 million hectares, 15 percent more than a year earlier, the agriculture ministry s...

Tags:Planting Area Sunflower
Iteris and SST Software partner to deliver advanced agronomic insights

Date：Jun. 2, 2016 Category：Companies
Iteris, Inc.

Iteris, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITI), the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, and SST Software have entered into a content partnershi...

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Nestlé and IFDC partner to support farmers in Nigeria

Date：Jun. 2, 2016 Category：Companies

About 1,000 farmers in northern Nigeria will be trained on good agricultural practices and entrepreneurial skills thanks to a new partnership between Nestlé Ni...

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Bayer and Cefetra join forces to promote sustainable agricultural practices in Latin America

Date：Jun. 2, 2016 Category：Companies
Bayer CropScience AG

Bayer and the agricultural supply chain manager Cefetra, a BayWa company, have started a Food Chain Partnership designed to drive sustainable cultivation of agr...

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USDA: Agrochemical use on field crops in 2015

Date：Jun. 2, 2016 Category：Markets

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently released the results of agrochemical use surveys on field crops, including cotton, soybeans and...

Tags:Cotton Soybean wheat AgriData
Bayer and Planetary Resources intend to collaborate to improve agriculture with space data

Date：Jun. 1, 2016 Category：Companies
Bayer CropScience AG

Bayer and the aerospace technology company Planetary Resources, based in Redmond, Washington, USA, have signed a memorandum of understanding about the developme...

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India, Australia sign pact to boost horticulture research

Date：Jun. 1, 2016 Category：Markets

India and Australia have signed a pact to boost horticultural research in a bid to develop and deploy modern tools of plant biotechnology to improve crop produc...

Tags:Ornamental and Turf
Highlights from big data in agriculture meeting held at Iowa State

Date：Jun. 1, 2016 Category：Markets

Collecting, analyzing and interpreting increasingly complex and large amounts of data has become an everyday occurrence in today's world. The massive datasets b...
New Brazilian president wants to flexibilize land sales to foreigners

Date：May. 31, 2016 Category：Regulations

According to sources of O Globo newspaper, interim president of Brazil, Michel Temer, is looking to flexibilize the land sales to foreigners in Brazil.
Southern States Cooperative in US launches new precision ag program

Date：May. 31, 2016 Category：Markets

Adopting precision agriculture technologies can be intimidating and risky for some farmers, while others want to dive head first into all of the data and techno...
Reinke, ReinCloud announce partnership

Date：May. 27, 2016 Category：Companies

Reinke introduces Ranch Systems as a new ReinCloud Ready product partner. Through this new partnership, Reinke offers RS300, a field-monitoring device focused o...
Researchers identify critical factors that determine drought vulnerability of wheat, maize

Date：May. 27, 2016 Category：Science&Research

Researchers led by Lixin Wang, assistant professor of earth sciences in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, have identif...
ADM completes the sale of its Brazilian sugar ethanol operations

Date：May. 27, 2016 Category：Companies
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)

Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) announced recently that it had completed the sale of its sugarcane ethanol operations in Limeira do Oeste, in the Bra...
Monsanto CEO: 3 tools for sustainable farming

Date：May. 26, 2016 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Conscientious Americans have taken numerous actions at the workplace and at home to save our Earth's resources and sustain the environment. All of these efforts...

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Farmers edge receives $3.2 million investment to expand into the U.S.

Date：May. 26, 2016 Category：Companies
Farmers Edge

Canadian-based Farmers Edge, who offers precision agriculture and data-management solutions, has secured an additional $3.2 million from Osmington, Inc. Formed ...

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Australia a key target with a trillion dollars ready for investment in agribusiness globally

Date：May. 26, 2016 Category：Markets

Global private equity companies have accrued about $1 trillion that they are ready and willing to invest in agribusiness, with Australia the key target.
Strongest El Nino in nearly 20 years ends

Date：May. 25, 2016 Category：Markets

The strongest El Nino in nearly 20 years, which damaged crop production in Asia and caused food shortages, has ended, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)...

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India’s soybean area seen falling as farmers switch to pulses

Date：May. 25, 2016 Category：Markets

Indian farmers are set to reduce the area given over to soybeans by up to 10 percent this year in response to falling prices, pushing up likely imports of edibl...

Tags:Planting Area
DuPont Pioneer and John Deere help growers to see more green

Date：May. 25, 2016 Category：Companies
DuPont Pioneer

DuPont Pioneer is offering an incentive for growers to try the Encirca(SM) Yield Nitrogen Management Service this summer to enhance their in-season nitrogen mon...

Tags:Collaboration
Benson Hill Biosystems launched CropOS

Date：May. 24, 2016 Category：Products
Benson Hill Biosystems

Benson Hill Biosystems, an agricultural technology company unlocking the genetic potential of plants, recently announced that is has commercially launched CropO...
Top Bayer investor says ‘furious’ at company over Monsanto bid

Date：May. 23, 2016 Category：Companies
Bayer CropScience AG

A top investor in German chemicals company Bayer has said on Friday he was “furious” at the company’s refusal to engage with him over its recent bid for U.S....

Tags:Acquisition Bayer CropScience
Monsanto mulls shuttering Israeli R&D center

Date：May. 20, 2016 Category：Companies
Monsanto Company

Agrochemical multinational Monsanto has drastically reduced the operations of its Israeli R&D center and is mulling its closure, sources informed “Globes”.

Tags:Monsanto Asia
SGS launches a Weed Seed Searches service in Australia

Date：May. 20, 2016 Category：Companies
SGS GROUP

Weed seeds in grain shipment are undesirable, and in many cases banned. Weed seed searches can verify compliance to local regulations and ensure there will be n...
Herbicide-tolerant crops in Integrated Weed Management (IWM) systems

Date：May. 20, 2016 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Scientists have proposed five actions to facilitate the incorporation of herbicide-tolerant crops in Integrated Weed Management (IWM) systems and have emphasise...
Soy price jump likely to boost US plantings of both soybeans, corn

Date：May. 20, 2016 Category：Markets

Rallying prices for soybeans are likely to encourage U.S. farmers to plant more of the oilseed this spring and could turn expected losses into profit.

Tags:US Soybean Maize

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: Investment & Expansion

Syngenta to build first herbicide plant in Russia for $25 mn
FMC Canada opens new head office in Mississauga, Ontario

Syngenta to build first herbicide plant in Russia for $25 mn
FMC Canada opens new head office in Mississauga, Ontario

: Registration & Launch

Corteva Agriscience introduces DuraCor herbicide
Nufarm Americas launches Q-Ball herbicide

Corteva Agriscience introduces DuraCor herbicide
Nufarm Americas launches Q-Ball herbicide

: Collaborations & Licences

Corteva Agriscience and John Deere invest in technology solutions and tools to help African farmers improve
BASF’s xarvio Digital Farming Solutions announces new digital collaboration with Nutrien Ag Solutions

Corteva Agriscience and John Deere invest in technology solutions and tools to help African farmers improve
BASF’s xarvio Digital Farming Solutions announces new digital collaboration with Nutrien Ag Solutions

: Mergers & Acquisitions

Wilbur-Ellis Acquires Ag Services, Inc.
Gowan Group acquires Brazilian Company Cross Link

Wilbur-Ellis Acquires Ag Services, Inc.
Gowan Group acquires Brazilian Company Cross Link

: Sales Performance

Nissan Chemical’s agricultural chemicals segment sales up 8% in FY 2018
Sumitomo Chemical's Health and Crop Sciences segment sales down in FY 2018

Nissan Chemical’s agricultural chemicals segment sales up 8% in FY 2018
Sumitomo Chemical's Health and Crop Sciences segment sales down in FY 2018

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