Seed
Texas producers are abandoning irrigated fields of cotton, corn, sorghum and hay as wells run dry.
Founder of Channel Bio Corp, which later sold to Monsanto, Funk is re-launching the NC+ brand for western corn, soybean and grain sorghum growers.
Consider these four recommendations before you buy seed online.
In a nationwide class action, Syngenta will pay a $1.51 billion settlement to U.S. corn farmers, grain handling facilities and ethanol plants. The settlement covers corn priced after September 15, 2013.
After finding cases of skin irritation, Monsanto is pulling its new seed treatment for 2018 to review the product.
Syngenta will sell corn and soybeans with Dow AgroSciences Enlist event following their agreement with Dow AgroSciences and M.S. Technologies.
Monday Syngenta announced it received Chinese approval for Duracade corn grain and processing co-products for food and feed use. The product received approval from USDA and EPA in 2013.
In the first of eight certified class actions against the company, jurors sided with plaintiffs and asked Syngenta to pay $217,700,000 in damages.
After several days of rain in recent weeks the majority of corn growing states are officially drought free—and in some cases looking more like lakes than fields. For young corn seedlings, continued pounding rain could compound pest problems and even lead to replant.
BASF and Syngenta are among companies that have submitted preliminary bids for assets that Bayer plans to sell in order to get regulatory approval for its $66 billion takeover of seeds giant Monsanto, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Partnering with Kaiima, an Israel-based plant breeding company, Beck’s is working to create better corn hybrids, faster. The collaboration follows a three year program assessing Kaiima’s EP technology in Beck’s corn germplasm.
Starting in 2018, AgReliant Genetics will go from eight representative brands to three—transitioning more than half of their brands into LG Seeds.
Amid rumors and anti-GMO messaging, one researcher is striving to use genetic modification to not just improve crop health, but potentially save consumer lives. Aspergillus, which creates carcinogenic aflatoxin, can now be controlled through genetic modification.
Syngenta merger means Chinese may own seeds they rejected.
This year, Agricomseeds is offering its first natural corn trait focused on increasing yield. Leadgrain, the new trait, uses multiple genes to more than double ovules at the cob matrix, which leads to ear expansion for more kernels per plant.
Researchers at the University of Surrey and the University of Queensland have found a new way to create crop protection products that doesn’t involve synthetic chemicals or genetically modified crops. By combining clay nanoparticles with designer RNAs, researchers are able to silence specific plant genes.
Syngenta plans to close an eastern Illinois seed-corn plant and distribution site and cut its 24 jobs.
These maps, provided by the respective companies, highlight the national and regional seed brands for the five leading seed firms.
Genetically modified (GM) seed is the cornerstone of modern crop production, boosting corn and soybean yields and making it possible to feed a rapidly multiplying global population, but clouds loom on the horizon.
The foundation of success with high populations is hybrid selection, says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie.
What’s the best way to gain valuable farmer insights? Just ask them. Here are four farmers explaining, in their own words, why they prefer to plant seeds with or without biotech traits.
Key seed companies agreed this past fall to a seed patent accord for biotech products that offers potentially big benefits to farmers of all major crops.
As popularity for bulk packaged seed increases, so do the farmer innovations to help ensure safe handling.
Genome-wide selection (GWS) is the “new wave” of technology that plant breeders are riding.
Raven technology plants two hybrids by prescription in what they hope will be a win-win in precision.
In an increasingly competitive landscape, independent seed companies have managed to increase their share of farmers’ business.
The seed company has retained a Canadian firm to conduct random, in-field audits.
Carefully read grower agreements before planting and communicate with buyers prior to delivery
Expanding to seven states and eight FFA chapters, Mycogen is entering the second year of its “Turn the Bag Blue and Gold” FFA program.