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Recent News
Register for Upcoming Webinar on EPA’s Research and Regulation of Pesticidal Air Treatment DevicesAugust 29, 2023 - 12:40 pm
Register for Upcoming Webinar on EPA’s Research and Regulation of Pesticidal Air Treatment DevicesAugust 26, 2023 - 12:07 pm
EPA Registers New Active Ingredient PyraclonilAugust 26, 2023 - 12:04 pm
Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate
This article was originally published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Below is an abstract for the article and a full link is provided below. Insect pests substantially reduce yields of three staple grains—rice, maize, and wheat—but models assessing the agricultural impacts of global warming rarely consider crop losses to insects. We […]
WSSA Advocates for Weed Controls That Protect Soybean Export Value
This Press Release was originally posted by the Weed Science Society of America. The original post can be found on their website here. For Immediate Release WSSA Advocates for Weed Controls That Protect Soybean Export Value WESTMINSTER, Colorado – August 27, 2018 – Experts from the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) will attend the […]
Discovery of nitrogen fixation in corn announced
This article was originally published by Eric Hamilton of Michigan Farm News. The following is an excerpt from the article. A full link is provided at the bottom. A discovery 10 years ago that seemed too good to be true required eight years of public-private collaboration of researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University […]
BASF closes its acquisition of vegetable seeds business from Bayer
This article was originally posted by BASF. A link to the full article is below. On Aug. 16, BASF closed the acquisition of Bayer’s global vegetable seeds business, mainly operating under the brand Nunhems®. The transaction adds a well-recognized brand with a very successful business track record to BASF’s portfolio. The acquired vegetable seeds business […]
Beck’s Hybrids calls on EPA to restrict dicamba use to pre-plant only
This article was originally published by Farm Media News. Indiana-based Beck’s Hybrids, which claims to the fourth-largest soybean seed seller in the United States, marketing soybeans in 11 Midwestern states representing 60 percent of the total soybean acreage in the U.S., has weighed in on the highly-controversial dicamba drift issue. In a letter to the […]