Article Issue: September 2014

Futureco Bioscience announces the establishment of eight technical subsidiaries to accelerate development of biopesticides and biostimulants. The new locations include Quito (Ecuador), Lima (Peru), Bogota […]

New innovative lures for trapping major horticultural pests will soon give growers an effective tool for better on-farm integrated pest management. Australian Department of Agriculture, […]

ORO AGRI SEZC LIMITED announced it has been registered and listed on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX). The company, with 18,000,244 shares issued, is […]

The economic crisis in Spain, where the unemployment rate stands at 25 percent, hasn't put a curb on ecological farming. In 2012, organic farming covered […]

Verdesian Life Sciences signs exclusive licensing agreement with Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc. (MCAG), and Hokusan Co., Ltd. (HOK), granting global access (excluding Japan) to patented […]

Arysta LifeScience initiated plans for an initial public offering through filing a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The number of […]

The Indian Government unveiled plans for a new holistic fertilizer and plant protection policy. A task force of experts will be constituted to frame the […]

Phyllom BioProducts Corp. (Phyllom) and Vestaron Corporation (Vestaron) have entered into a collaboration to develop novel, effective biological insect controls by the collaboration of research […]

EcoPesticides, a New Mexico startup company, has begun field tests to demonstrate efficacy against desert locusts in Africa using a natural bio- pesticide technology developed […]

Over its 14 years of existence, the Biopesticide Industry Alliance (BPIA) has helped steward the growth and acceptance of biopesticides in the fresh produce industry. […]

Loveland Products, a subsidiary of Agrium, announced acquisition of Agricen, an agricultural biotechnology company delivering biochemical-based products for efficient and sustainable plant nutrition. Agricen manufactures […]

Marrone Bio announced on September 3 that, at the recommendation of management, the Audit Committee of its Board of Directors has commenced an internal investigation […]

BioConsortia, Inc., has expanded its staff to include Christina Huben as senior vice president of operations and administration and Susan Turner as senior vice president […]

Purely Organic Products announced that Engage Agro will be representing its product line in Canada and the United States. Purely Organic Products will continue to […]

With new offices in Russia, Turkey and New Zealand in the last few months, where is the next office to be located? Actually, we are […]

Cultiva, LLC announced that it has appointed Hector Absi, Jr. as its new Chief Executive Officer and Jim Lappin as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Absi […]

Bayer CropScience Brazil and Plant Impact plc have signed a commercial agreement for Veritas®, an advanced technology designed to boost the efficiency of soybean and […]

Vestaron has taken a challenging approach as a new company, developing a completely new bioinsecticide technology based on venom peptides. Can you describe how the […]

Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI), announced Scott Peoples appointment as Vice President of Marketing. In this role, Peoples will be responsible for driving demand creation […]

Terramera PlantScience announced the acquisition of Plasma Power, an India-based manufacturer of cold pressed neem oil and other ecologically friendly products for use in agriculture, […]

The US EPA has proposed the approval of Northwest Agricultural Products’s bioherbicide Pseudomonas fluorescens strain D7 as a new active ingredient. This microbe is proposed […]

It is with great sadness that we learned about the sudden death of Bernard Blum, one of the founding members of IBMA in 1995. He […]

ICL Specialty Fertilizers unit, a specialty minerals manufacturer, has acquired AmegA Sciences, a UK based developer and manufacturer of specialty ag, horticulture, turf, and amenity […]

Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI), announced that its VENERATE™ Bioinsecticide is now registered in California. This new broad-spectrum bioinsecticide is active against a wide array […]

Novozymes announced earnings for the first half of 2014 with performance in line with expectations and increased full-year profit outlook . Sales grew in the […]

After an evaluation process of 4 years, the strain WYEC 108 of Streptomyces lydicus, active ingredient of the biopesticide ACTINOVATE, has been authorized by the […]

Vestaron Corporation announced a first close on the sale of its Series C Preferred Stock. This $10M round, which was led by new investor Cultivian […]

Marrone Bio Innovations received a US patent for the use of Chromobacterium, a naturally occurring bacterium with demonstrated insecticidal and miticidal capabilities. Chromobacterium is the […]

Agrinos reported second quarter sales revenue of $3.9 million, mainly based on US and China sales. The operating income of negative $4.1 million in the […]

Stockton Israel announced that Timorex Gold has received US registration from the US EPA. Timorex Gold is a proprietary multi-component natural fungicide based on a […]

Exosect Ltd, a leading provider of enabling technologies, announced winning a competitive bid for grant funding under the first round of UK government’s Agri-tech Catalyst […]

Exosect Ltd has received notification from the UK Patent Office that it has been granted a patent for the control of arthropod infestations in dry […]

Bayer CropScience opened their new R&D site in California and announced close to US$ 1 billion (EUR 700 million) earmarked for investments in the USA […]

The mechanical force that a single fungal cell or bacterial colony exerts on a plant cell may seem vanishingly small, but it plays a heavy […]

BioConsortia, Inc. opened company headquarters and R&D laboratories in Davis, California. BioConsortia has developed a R&D technology linking plant phenotype selection with high-throughput microbial screening […]

Russian thistle, Salsola tragus (tumbleweed), has become an icon of the American West since arriving in the 1870s as a flax seed contaminant. It out- […]

Biolchim announces the opening of its subsidiary in New Zealand After the acquisition of CIFO S.p.A (see 2B Breaking News Alert 1 August 2014) and […]

Pecan scab, caused by the fungus Fusicladium effusum is the major disease currently limiting productivity and quality of pecan trees in the southeastern United States. […]

The new locations include Quito (Ecuador), Lima (Peru), Bogota (Colombia), Naples (United States), Mexico City (Mexico), San José (Costa Rica) Guatemala (Guatemala) and Santo Domingo […]

ICL just announced that its ICL Specialty Fertilizers business unit has acquired AmegA Sciences, a UK-based developer and manufacturer of specialty products for the specialty […]

Ag/Bio Tech company Terramera PlantScience announced today the acquisition of Plasma Power, an India- based manufacturer of Cold Pressed Neem Oil and other ecologically friendly […]

Cultiva, LLC announced today that it has appointed Hector Absi, Jr. as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mr. Absi brings to Cultiva a 24-year […]

BioConsortia, Inc., an innovator in microbial consortia for improving plant traits and increasing crop yields, has just announced the opening of its new company headquarters […]