Article Issue: April 2022

AMVAC and BASF are collaborating to develop Rhizo-Flo granular soybean inoculant as an addition to the SIMPAS-applied Solutions portfolio. Rhizo-Flo is a soybean inoculant designed […]

Vive Crop Protection introduced Averland FC to battle nematodes in-furrow in cotton. Averland FC combines abamectin and Vive’s patented Allosperse nano-polymer delivery system, making it […]

DunhamTrimmer has named Vatren Jurin the company’s new vice president of product development. As an established professional in the specialty nutrition, adjuvants, and biostimulant space, […]

Corteva Agriscience has been named by Symborg as the exclusive distributor of a nitrogen-fixation product for both specialty growers and row crop farmers. The agreement […]

Provivi and Syngenta Crop Protection have launched the pheromone-based mating disruption product Nelvium to control rice pests, such as the rice stem borer. The companies […]

Thomas Schäfer, executive vice president and chief scientific officer, and member of the executive board has stepped down as EVP and CSO of Chr. Hansen […]

Marrone Bio Innovations Inc. (MBI) has signed an agreement with Corteva Agriscience that expands the opportunity for MBI technologies to be used on seeds sold […]

BioConsortia, Inc. has moved two new nematicides into its development and registration phase. The new products control nematode pests and increase crop yields. In 2021 […]

Sumitomo Chemical Company (SCC), parent company of Valent U.S.A and Valent BioSciences, announced senior executive appointments, effective April 1. Matt Plitt, executive vice president and […]

Mitsui and Co. has formed a new company from the merger of its European subsidiary Certis Europe with its recent acquisition Belchim Crop Protection. The […]

Belgium-based KitoZyme has been granted approval for its KitoGreen products by the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) as biopesticides for multiple applications and crops. KitoGreen […]

Ronald Valentin joins Anatis Bioprotection as director of technical business. Valentin was most recently director of technical business at BioWorks. He had also worked for […]

Belgian company Colruyt Group, is expanding its minority interest in The Seaweed Company to 21 percent. The retail group was already a shareholder in the […]

Netherlands-based Hudson River Biotechnology (HRB), together with Sphera Encapsulation (SE), has applied for a patent for a smart delivery particle. HRB and SE collaborated on […]

Biotalys has appointed Dr. Carlo Boutton as chief scientific officer (CSO), effective 3 May 2022. In his most recent role as Sanofi’s global head of […]

US-based Tidal Vision Products, Inc., an innovator of chitosan chemistry solutions for the agriculture,  water treatment, and textiles industries, has acquired ViaeX Technologies Inc., a […]

Sound Agriculture, a US company whose products include biofertilizers, is joining forces with UK-based petroleum giant Shell to measure the economic and environmental impacts of […]

Prime Source, a division of Albaugh, LLC., has launched AzoxyBio Fungicide in the US. The product has received EPA registration and will be available for […]

Plant Health Care has signed an agreement to distribute its Harpin αβ biostimulant product, ProAct, into Argentina and Uruguay, and will be distributed by Ager […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted Valent BioSciences an Experimental Use Permit (EUP) to perform further field studies of VBC-60748, a new fermentation-based […]

Futureco Bioscience has obtained a new registration from Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food of Guatemala for the commercialization of NOFLY WP bioinsecticide in the […]

In a sign of the current economic climate, Novozymes has announced its plan to pass on the incurred increase in raw material, energy, and logistics […]

Four of Suterra’s products are now listed with the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) for use in organic agricultural production. Suterra's season long mating disruption […]

ICL has launched Gronamic Golf 6-2-4, an organic based fertilizer that combines a blend of mineral and plant-based organic nutrition with a biostimulant for turf […]

European farm lobby group Copa Cogeca has been a vocal critic of how the European Green Deal and Farm to Fork initiatives are being approached. […]

Azotic Technologies announced the granting of new patents in Australia and the Philippines. The patents are for strains of the bacterium Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus (Gd), a […]

Winners of the first prize in the Bernard Blum Award 2021 were BioBee Sde Eliyahu Ltd. for its controlled release sachets of the auxiliary Phytoseiulus […]

UPL announces two business units in North America to further deliver solutions that address critical challenges throughout the food chain. Natural Plant Protection (NPP), a […]

In a review recently published in the Journal of Fungi, researchers explored how the Trichoderma genus could be used to develop methodologies for the mycosynthesis […]

Brazil-based Dillon Biotecnologia has launched bioinsecticide Beauvel, produced from the fungus Beauveria bassiana and recommended for strawberry, papaya, grape, mango, coffee, melon, soybean, corn, garlic, […]

A CABI-led study has developed the first forecasting models targeting the larval stages of fall armyworm (FAW). Using near real-time earth observation data and pest […]

Tradecorp and the Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics have launched a joint research unit called Biological Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture. The goal of the […]

US-based researchers have successfully used a naturally occurring fungus to control invasive crazy ants at a state park in Texas. The breakthrough has been described […]

Agri-biomolecule developer Fyteko has announced a new collaboration agreement with Janssen PMP, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, for development of its novel crop biostimulant. […]

BioSafe Systems has introduced a 5-strain inoculant with its TerraGrow Liquid product. When applied to the soil, the company says the product quickly establishes beneficial […]

Little penguins in Victoria (Australia) will be among the native species to benefit from a new biocontrol solution to tackle the invasive coastal weed sea […]

3Bar Biologics Inc. is collaborating with Rizobacter Argentina to test LiveMicrobe just-in-time fermentation technology on 3Bar’s biofertilizer Bio-YIELD, which acts to increase the availability of […]

PheroSyn, the company spun-out from Rothamsted Research, UK, to develop and produce novel pest pheromones, has secured an Innovate UK smart grant for a project […]

Pseudomonas syringae is a common bacterial pathogen that affects an array of important agricultural crops. Infections start on the leaf surface and spread through openings […]

European farm lobby group Copa Cogeca has been a vocal critic of how the European Green Deal and Farm to Fork initiatives are being approached. […]

Winners of the first prize in the Bernard Blum Award 2021 were BioBee Sde Eliyahu Ltd. for its controlled release sachets of the auxiliary Phytoseiulus […]

SICIT Group and Syngenta have signed an agreement that provides a 15-year exclusive supply contract for ISABION and HICURE biostimulants and the further development of […]