Article Issue: January 2017

HPC Acquisitions, Inc. DBA Vegalab US has announced an exclusive distributor agreement with Fertica Group for its products in Guatemala. Fertica is the only manufacturer […]

Bionema, a spinoff business from Swansea announced their first product to market, NemaTrident CT. It goes on sale in March 2017 for vine weevil control […]

Symborg and Biogard, a division of CBC (Europe), announced that the companies have signed an exclusive agreement to develop and market MycoUp in Italy. MycoUp […]

Organic acaricide, declared of interest by the Senate of the Nation in Argentina Aluen CAP eliminates up to 95 percent of Varroa destructor, a pest […]

Futureco Bioscience S.A. has agreed to sell a minority stake to Sumi Agro Europe Ltd., SAE, a subsidiary company of the Japanese group Sumitomo Corporation, […]

Inocucor Technologies Inc. announced that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has registered its first two specialty ag biological products for use by Canadian farmers […]

The Biobest website is now available in Russian and Turkish. With Turkish and Russian, in addition to Dutch, English, French, Spanish and Chinese, www.biobestgroup.com is […]

Stockton announced new registrations of Timorex Gold® biofungicide. Registrations were obtained from the Ministry of Agriculture in Brazil for the control of diseases on tomatoes, […]

Koppert’s Mirical now has a longer shelf life. In the past year, Koppert Biological Systems started up an improvement process, which resulted in a doubling […]

Gilles Chevallier, Segment Manager Biologicals, Strategy & Portfolio Management, Bayer, Division Crop Science It has now been almost five years since the acquisition of AgraQuest […]

Plant Health Care has reached an agreement with Talc U.S.A. to launch Inceptive™, a novel product containing PHC's patented Harpin™ αβ technology, which will be […]

You have been Executive Director since August 2015. What has been the biggest surprise for you in this first year? My only real surprise would […]

Koppert will lead the Brazilian Association of Biological Control Companies. ‘Improving the credibility of biological solutions for agriculture and horticulture in Brazil is high on […]

In many tropical countries, stink bug-infestations are a severe problem in common bean production. A new PhD study looks at an integrated management system to […]

The BioAg Alliance, Monsanto’s and Novozymes’ collaboration announced results from its 2016 field trial program and shared an updated research pipeline. Acceleron B-300 SAT is […]

A University of Queensland team has made a discovery that could help conquer the greatest threat to global food security —pests and diseases in plants. […]

AgriMetis raised $23.5 million in Series B funding in an oversubscribed round led by Anterra Capital. Joining the round and making a crossover investment from […]

Kenya will start manufacturing biocontrol product Aflasafe KE01 to tackle aflatoxin. The country has previously lost food stocks and lives to aflatoxin - tasteless poisons […]

Indigo announced preliminary data from its first commercial product, Indigo™ Cotton. Launched in the spring of 2016 on approximately 50,000 acres across multiple states, Indigo […]

A severe infestation of the papaya mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus) nearly wiped out papaya orchards in Pakistan before this largely farming South Asian country decided to […]

Alltech has acquired Solbiosur. Solbiosur is well regarded in Spain provides agricultural and horticultural solutions dedicated to improving yield and efficiency for the producer. With […]

Two Kalamazoo entrepreneurs have launched AgTonik LLC to manufacture and market products containing an organic compound called fulvic acid that farms, greenhouses and hydroponics operations […]

Certis Europe has announced the appointment of Ronan Goff as Country Manager for Certis France. Ronan brings extensive managerial experience to Certis having spent most […]

Eden Research plc announced that it has signed an exclusive commercialization agreement with Taminco BVBA, a subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company’s global crop protection division. […]

Potato and sugar beet growers will have a new biopesticide tool for the 2017 crop year. Certis USA has named its new product Lifegard WG […]

Vestaron Corporation has announced that technology acquisition and business development expert Dr. Andy Renz joins Vestaron’s Executive Team. Andy has more than a decade of […]

Ourofino Agrociência and Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology have signed a biological cooperation agreement to develop a new line of biological products, including bioinsecticides, bioherbicides […]

Promip announced the launch of Macromip Max for the biological control of the split mite in tomatoes. The solution acts as a biological agent for […]

Amy Roberts has joined Lallemand Plant Care as their North American Regulatory Manager. Prior to joining Lallemand, Amy was with Technology Sciences Group USA for […]

Isagro USA, Inc. has signed an agreement to exclusively distribute Taegro 2 Biofungicide in the U.S. and Canada. Taegro 2 provides broad-spectrum protection of major […]

Repar Corporation has developed Homobrassinolide 0.1%, a new generation plant growth promoter containing homobrassinolide, a natural substance with plant growth promoting activity. It is also […]

Koppert Brazil announced an agreement with FAPESP. The cooperation with FAPESP ((São Paulo State Research Foundation) will focus on improving agricultural production in Brazil, with […]

Albaugh, LLC launched a new biological seed treatment platform that includes a broad portfolio of highly effective and proven biological seed treatments. The new BIOST […]

Biolchim SpA has strengthened its position in the Hungarian market by acquiring a 70% majority stake in the potting soil and substrate manufacturer Matécsa Kft, […]

A new bionematicide, jointly developed by e- Nema GmBH and investigators at Israel's Agriculture Research Organization (ARO) Volcani Institute, is showing success against the widely […]

Futureco Bioscience S.A. has agreed to sell a minority stake to Sumi Agro Europe Ltd., SAE, a subsidiary company of the Japanese group Sumitomo Corporation, […]

Symborg and Biogard, a division of CBC (Europe), announced today that the companies have signed an exclusive agreement to develop and market MycoUp in Italy. […]

The Italian group Biolchim SpA has strengthened its position in the Hungarian market by acquiring a majority stake of 70% in the potting soil and […]