Article Issue: October 2019

ABIM 2019 has come to a close this afternoon, with the announcement of its most successful event to date.  A total of 1227 delegates representing […]

Jennifer Lewis, the Executive Director of IBMA, presenting at IBMA AGM at the Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting (ABIM) in Basel, the unrivalled meeting place for […]

As announced in our Breaking News Alert of Wednesday 9th October, three products were finalists for the 2019 Bernard Blum Award for Novel Biocontrol Solutions: […]

Corteva Agriscience and Pro Farm Technologies Ltd, a Finnish agricultural technology company focused on biologicals, announced a long-term exclusive commercial agreement in Europe. Together, they […]

We first wanted to say congratulations on your new position as Executive Director of IBMA effective 4 June. You were already involved in the association […]

Mondias Natural Products Inc. has entered into a research agreement with Premier Tech to conduct studies on Mondias’ CELEXT07 potential as a novel biostimulant and […]

We last spoke with you in July 2014 after the opening of your Osage, Iowa manufacturing facility. How has the plant expanded your capabilities? Have […]

Corteva Agriscience and MicroMGx announced a collaboration that aims to provide farmers a wider range of novel, microbial-based crop protection products. Under the agreement, MicroMGx […]

Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) Multan’s (Pakistan) agriculture scientists are gearing up for research on the moringa plant to extract numerous crop related benefits it carries. The Rs 14 million […]

Indigo Agriculture announced its expansion into Europe and opens its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Indigo will connect with growers directly to bring high quality, sustainably […]

Iowa State University researchers received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to test two promising […]

Sapec Agro Business has been rebranded as Rovensa. According to a news release, Rovensa arises out of the need to respond to the market’s current […]

Georg Goeres has joined Indigo as Head of Europe. For the past 15 years, Georg worked in various leadership roles for Syngenta, including Head of […]

Corteva Agriscience has opened a new crop protection packaging plant as part of a multimillion euro investment into products of natural origin. The €20 million […]

Valagro held a ground-breaking event on Oct. 1 for its Orangeburg, South Carolina plant in the U.S. The plant will introduce technologies for the production of […]

IBMA has announced three shortlisted products for the Bernard Blum Award in 2019: Andermatt Biocontrol for the product Tutavir, which contains a Phthorimaea operculellagranulovirus (PhopGV) for selective control […]

On Sept. 19, Ginkgo Bioworks announced a Series E financing round of $290 million with participation from all existing major investors and other new investors […]

Provivi, Inc. has raised $85 million in Series C funding co-led by Pontifax Agtech and Singapore state fund Temasek. New investor Tybourne Capital Managementand existing investors Kairos Ventures, Spruce Capital, Lanx […]

BioConsortia, Inc. has added a wheat seed treatment to the growing list of new biological products moving to registration phase. The new wheat product comes […]

Marrone Bio Innovations Inc. announced that its novel Bacillus biofungicide, marketed in the U.S. as Stargus for specialty crops, is approved for use in Mexico by the […]

Israeli-based Biofeed has announced the successful completion of official registration in Ghana and Togo of FreeDome, its special product against the fruit flies Bactrocera dorsalis […]

BioWorks has launched SuffOil-X spray oil emulsion to their Canadian product line. SuffOil-X, an organic biopesticide, controls insects, mites and fungi – including powdery mildew […]

Symbiom, a Czech Republic based biotechnology company is now part of the De Sangosse Group, a French crop protection company. Symbiom specializes in the research, […]

Ceradis B.V. has announced Ceradis’ first product registration in the USA, with the EPA granting the registration of CeraMax for seed treatment of soybeans. CeraMax […]

Agro-sciences firm PI Industries Ltd. has signed an agreement with Italian company Isagro SpA to acquire its wholly owned Asian subsidiary. The Indian company will […]

Kemin Crop Technologies, a business venture of Kemin Industries, announced that its FIFRA 25(b)-exempt botanical-oil-based contact miticides, TetraCURB Concentrate and TetraCURB Organic, are now labeled as insecticides for […]

The Swiss based company Andermatt Biocontrol has increased its shareholding in the German biotech company ABiTEP GmbH from 24% to a majority stake of 78%. […]

IBMA has announced three shortlisted products for the Bernard Blum Award in 2019. Andermatt Biocontrol, for the product Tutavir, which contains a Phthorimaea operculella granulovirus […]

IBMA has announced receipt of 7 highly qualified candidate nominations for the Bernard Blum Award in 2019: CBC (Europe) Srl - BIOGARD Div. for the […]

Valagro, a leader in the development, production and marketing of biostimulant and advanced nutrient solutions for cash and row crops, is commencing the construction of its […]