Article Issue: November 2014

Flagship VentureLabs™ announces Symbiota™, after two years of development in stealth mode and a $7.5 million Series A financing from Flagship Ventures. Symbiota is pioneering […]

Koppert Biological Systems began work on the construction of a new, international R&D center in October. The center, which is being built next to the […]

Experiments conducted by Israeli Agricultural Research Organization, BioBee, Hevel ma'on Enterprises and Migal, in the past three years, have clearly shown highly promising potential of […]

Evogene Ltd. announced the expansion of its crop protection activities with the completion of dedicated facilities to support research and development activities for the Company’s […]

Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI) announced that Brian Ahrens has joined the company as its Vice President of Sales. In this role, Ahrens will be […]

Arysta LifeScience announced that it launched TYTANIT® crop biostimulant for rice in Vietnam. TYTANIT is based on novel titanium technology that stimulates photosynthesis, which produces […]

BioConsortia, Inc. has expanded its R & D team to include Graham Hymus PhD, Thomas Williams PhD, and Elsebeth Kolmos PhD. Each brings broad and […]

Spensa Technologies Inc., a precision agriculture startup in Purdue Research Park, received a $630,000 SBIR Phase 2 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand […]

Stockton Israel announced the appointment of Fernando Illing as Country Manager of Stockton S.A. in Argentina effective November 1, 2014. Fernando brings 25 years of […]

Agrinos announced third quarter 2014 interim financial results with sales revenue at USD 0.6m and cash collection at USD 1.0m reflecting current business seasonality. D. […]

INCOTEC announced that Erika den Daas was named as a member of the company’s Board of Directors on November 1st. She is responsible for the […]

AgBiome disclosed the names of several major agricultural companies participating in Series A financing which closed last year. Syngenta, Monsanto, and Novozymes have all taken […]

Biobest just recently opened in China its own production facility for producing bumblebees. China is a unique marketplace with many challenges. What lead to your […]

Platform Specialty Products, the chemical company partly owned by investor Bill Ackman, has agreed to buy Arysta LifeScience in a deal valuing the agriculture chemical […]

When the company started in 1993, it was 100% dedicated to biostimulants and plant nutrition products. When we met for an interview last year, you […]

Verdesian Life Sciences, LLC signed a licensing agreement with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to develop and market LANL’s latest nitrogen enhancement technology for plants. […]

INCOTEC, and the Japanese concern, JA Zen-Noh, made a presentation of their cooperation before officially signing their first agreement in the presence of King Willem-Alexander […]

Albaugh, LLC and Italpollina USA, Inc. announced a long-term strategic collaboration to deliver microbial seed treatment solutions for the US seed treatment market. In the […]

Stockton Colombia S.A.S., a member of the Stockton Group, announced that the Colombian Agriculture Institute – ICA, has approved the marketing and use of its […]

Koppert Biological Systems and Oman based Hassad Agricultural Investments LLC, signed a joint venture agreement establishing Koppert Biological Systems Oman LLC. The agreement was signed […]

Exosect has announced the submission of the first fungal isolate, specifically for insect pest control in stored commodities, to the EU regulatory authorities. The dossier […]

Valent U.S.A. Corporation announced an agreement with Minneapolis-based MGK to manage the marketing and sales of MGK's crop protection line of insect control products within […]

COVERON is a new biostimulant for seed treatment containing selected, patented and proprietary beneficial microbials. It is the first combining mychorrizae (Glomus mosseae and Glomus […]

Alltech Crop Science continues to expand its reach in fields and groves across the globe with the recent purchase of Improcrop in South Africa. Improcrop, […]

Verdesian Life Sciences, LLC has announced the latest addition to its portfolio of seed enhancement products — Preside™ CL, a new soybean seed inoculant, available […]

Agrium Inc., through its subsidiary Loveland Products, Inc., and CH Biotech R&D Co., Ltd. an agricultural technology company that develops and markets plant health and […]

New research is underway in the UK to design and produce a control system for beetle pests of peas and beans which does not use […]

Biobest announced opening of a bumblebee production facility in Shouguang, China in the Shandong province. Soon, Chinese growers will be able to buy bumblebees for […]

The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) is an efficient vector of a bacterium that causes a lethal citrus disease, huanglongbing (HLB), one of the most destructive […]

BioSafe Systems, with headquarters in East Hartford, CT, has completed construction of a state-of-art production facility in Sparks, NV, for its line of activated peroxygen […]

For decades, honeybees have been battling a deadly disease that kills off their larvae and leads to hive collapse called American Foulbrood and its effects […]

Agrium Inc., through its subsidiary Loveland Products, Inc., and CH Biotech R&D Co., Ltd. today announced that Loveland Products has signed a definitive agreement to […]