Article Issue: March 2020

Idai Nature, the biocontrol business unit of ROVENSA, an international group with innovative solutions for well-balanced agriculture, announces today the acquisition of Grupo Agrotecnología. Based […]

A new generation of biostimulants based on plant metabolites is being developed through a collaboration led by Van Iperen Group and Landlab. Adding to seaweeds, […]

Verano365, a startup horticultural technology company, announced its first product called Thrivedo during the Biocontrols USA Conference held in Portland, Oregon earlier this month. Thrivedo […]

Field trials on wheat by Kansas State University using MPXA – a humic and fulvic acid based chelating agent – resulted in an average 29 […]

Idai Nature has acquired Even Agro, a specialty fertilizer company founded in 1999 and based in Albacete (Spain) that offers products suitable for organic farming […]

Biotalys NV announced the second closing of its Series C financing round with €10 million, bringing the total amount of capital raised through its Series […]

Dr. Jose Antonio del Campo has joined AlgaEnergy as Director of R&D&I. Del Campo has a degree in biology from the University of Malaga, having […]

Kemin Crop Technologies has entered a partnership agreement with Laboratoire M2 to distribute Thymox Control, a thyme-oil-based biopesticide, in the U.S. Thymox Control controls fungal […]

Israel-based biological crop protection technology startup WeedOUT announced the first close of a Series A round led by Syngenta Ventures to tackle weeds that are […]

Certis USA President and CEO, Jow-Lih Su, PhD will transition his duties this year after nearly 20 years of building Certis USA into one of […]

Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI) has signed a commercial agreement with Anasac Chile S.A. to develop and distribute Grandevo bioinsecticide and Venerate bioinsecticide in Chile. […]

Valagro announces Yaxe, a joint venture with e-Novia, the Enterprises Factory based in Milan, Italy. The new venture is focused on digital solutions in agriculture […]

The soybean inoculant market is undergoing a growth boom in Brazil, resulting from a combination of factors with big players betting in this sector, but […]

Oro Agri Europe announced that OROMATE K26 is now authorized for organic farming in Spain. OROMATE K26 is a concentrated source of humic acids that […]

Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc. (BVT) has opened a European office and R&D center in Switzerland’s Agri & Co Innovation Center. The new location includes […]

BioWorks has launched ON-Gard Calcium, an organic liquid fertilizer with plant derived protein hydrolysate and calcium chloride for the treatment and prevention of calcium deficiency […]

In a letter addressed to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler, five members of the U.S. Congress expressed concerns that EPA's proposed draft […]

Marrone Bio Innovations has released its Q4 and FY2019 Financial Results. The company’s Q4 revenues increased 17 percent to $6.7 million vs 2018, driven primarily […]

European standardization organizations – European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) – have approved the Standardization Request from the […]

BPIA (Biological Products Industry Alliance) welcomed over 200 members and guest to their annual meeting held in Portland, Oregon on 3-4 March. Total membership in […]

NewLeaf Symbiotics, Inc. has raised $20 million in a first close of its Series D financing with Koch Agronomic Holdings, Leaps by Bayer, Otter Capital, […]

The Andersons, Inc. has released a biological nutrient product, BioKick, a microbial package specifically designed to work in synergy with growers’ liquid starter fertilizer program […]

Aphea.Bio has joined the International Alliance for Phytobiomes Research as a sponsoring partner. Based in Belgium, the biotechnology company was founded in 2017 as a […]

Dr. Michael Brownbridge, Ph.D., Biological Program Manager, Disease Control Management, BioWorks Congratulations on your new role at BioWorks. What was the appeal of joining the […]

Andermatt Biocontrol has established a new subsidiary in Barcelona, Spain, called Andermatt Iberia S.L.U. Juan Rodriguez Martin will be joining Andermatt Iberia as CEO of […]

UAV-IQ offers aerial biocontrol in California, U.S., an IPM service that uses drones to release beneficial biological control agents bred by Koppert Biological Systems. Why […]

Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) recently announced the approval of minor use label expansion registrations for Valent BioSciences’ XenTari WG biological insecticide for control […]

Somalia, one of several African nations being hit hard by enormous swarms of locusts, is planning to control them with a fungus in what would […]

CABI has launched a dedicated online resource in Kenya aimed at raising the awareness and uptake of biocontrol and biopesticide products by growers and their […]

Scientists at Gifu University and Mie University (Japan) have isolated an endophytic Streptomyces sp. MBFA-172 from strawberry plants. MBFA-172 effectively suppressed strawberry anthracnose under glasshouse […]

BioWorks has launched PERpose Plus in the U.S., a broad-spectrum algaecide and fungicide for the prevention, suppression and control of fungus and algae on equipment […]

CABI scientists, as part of an international team of researchers, have discovered a new biological control in the fight against the noxious and invasive weed […]

Xebec Adsorption Inc., a global provider of clean energy solutions, and Bähler Biogas Inc. have signed an agreement to develop an integrated facility to process […]

ORO AGRI launched new insecticide/acaricide OROGANIC. The product was approved by the Dutch Board for the Authorization of Plant Protection Products (CTGB) and is based […]

Research conducted at one of Montana State University’s (U.S.) agricultural research centers was patented in January after the discovery of a group of unique fungi […]

The international private equity entities KKR, PAI Partners and The Carlyle Group have expressed interest in the acquisition of Rovensa (formerly Sapec Agro), owned by […]

Vellsam Bioactive Matters has developed a biofertilizer based on a strain belonging to the PGPR group (rhizobacteria that promote plant growth). The company is currently […]

Researchers have discovered that the use of a plant-based biostimulant improves plant performances and fruit quality in tomato plants grown at elevated temperatures. The study, […]

Andermatt Biocontrol has established a new subsidiary in Barcelona, Spain, called Andermatt Iberia S.L.U. Andermatt Biocontrol announced that Juan Rodriguez Martin will be joining Andermatt […]