Article Issue: August 2022

Nutrien Ltd. has entered into an agreement to acquire Brazilian company Casa do Adubo S.A. The acquisition includes 39 retail locations, under the brand Casa […]

Biome Makers Inc. has partnered with Biospheres to integrate Biome Makers’ BeCrop technology into the Microspheres lab in France. Biome Makers' analysis, integrated into a […]

Certis Belchim BV has reached an agreement with New Zealand-based Henry Manufacturing Limited (HML) to acquire all tangible and intangible assets, including intellectual property, associated […]

J.M. Huber Corporation (Huber), a global, specialty engineered materials manufacturing company, has signed a binding agreement to acquire full control of the Biolchim Group from […]

AgBiome announces a strategic partnership with Dry Services, a natural product processing and packaging provider. This alliance will facilitate the production, scaling and packaging of […]

Groundwork BioAg announced its partial acquisition of NovaTero BioAg, its exclusive distribution partner in Brazil for the past four years. Groundwork BioAg stated the partial […]

Irish agritech startup CropBiome, a joint University College Dublin (UCD) and Trinity College Dublin (TCD) spin-out, has received €1.3 million funding. HBAN (Halo Business Angel […]

Ginkgo Bioworks has acquired biotechnology company Zymergen. Ginkgo plans to integrate the acquisition, which is expected to accelerate the development of Ginkgo's innovative horizontal synthetic […]

ICL and ag-biotech company PlantArcBio, Ltd. announced the development of a novel biostimulant technology platform that uses RNAi technology to maximize a plant's natural yield […]

Spain-based fertilizer producer Grupo Fertiberia has acquired Trichodex, a tech-based company with headquarters in Seville. The acquisition allows Grupo Fertiberia to expand in the development […]

Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bioglobal A.S. in Turkey to accelerate BVT’s entry into the region, with an […]

Anthesis and Corteva Agriscience Hellas announce their strategic agreement for the distribution of bioinsecticide Bolldex in the Greek market. The multi-year development plan has been […]

Once again for the 2022 season, Italy’s Ministry of Ecological Transition has approved the release of Ganaspis brasiliensis, the parasitoid imported by the Edmund Mach […]

Olmix has partnered with AL SANABEL Agro Egypt for the distribution of biostimulants in the Egyptian market. Olmix’s Algomel PUSH, Seamel PREVENT and Seamel BLOOM […]

Syngenta has signed a licensing agreement with UK based HL Hutchinsons (HLH) to supply agronomists and farmers with an advanced soil mapping and sampling service […]

FBS Carbon Defense, FBSciences’ broad-spectrum EPA registered preventative, rotational fungicide has been approved for sale in the state of California. FBS Carbon Defense is a […]

BRANDT has reached agreement with Enrique M. Bayá Casal, S.A. (EBC), of Argentina, for the distribution of plant nutrition products for use on row crops. […]

ImmunRise Biocontrol, a start-up based in Cestas, France, has raised €5 million in funding. Founded in 2016 by Lionel Navarro (researcher at the CNRS-French National […]

Germany-based HanseAndina has acquired a minority stake in Israeli start-up Botanohealth Ltd. 2BMonthly puts the questions to HanseAndina's director and founder Jan Onnen. Founded in […]

NexusBioAg, a division of Univar Solutions, and MustGrow Biologics Corp. have reached an exclusive marketing and distribution agreement in the Canadian canola and pulse market […]

A new study published in Scientific Reports provides new insights on the temperature dependence of bacterial wilt disease, with an eye toward use of bacteriophages […]

Futureco Bioscience has sealed its partnership with Innovak Global for the exclusive distribution of BESTCURE in Mexico. BESTCURE is registered for high-value crops in the […]

Researchers have taken the first-ever cryo-EM images of nitrogenase in action, and the atomic-level-resolution images may provide a new pathway to ammonia production. Previously, it […]

Partnering with The Energy and Resources Institute's (TERI) SMART Agrisolutions, Chambal Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited, a private sector fertilizer producer in India, launched its first […]

This past spring, the University of Georgia Small Fruit Entomology Lab was one of a handful of select institutions in the US to receive a […]

Biobest has acquired Agronológica Unip. Lda., and announced a name change to Biobest Portugal. Founded in 2016, Agronológica Unip. Lda. has served growers in Portugal […]

Tropical Agro System India Pvt. Ltd., which manufactures nanotechnology and biological products, has launched Tag Carb-N in Raipur, India. The product, comprised of 25 percent […]

Three scientists at the Oklahoma State University (OSU) Institute for Agricultural Biosciences are helping solve the problem of world hunger by improving nitrogen fixation and […]

Olmix Plant Care and Crop Agritech are partnering to introduce a first Plant Care program to Thailand, to improve fruit cultivation. For the past several […]

Nutrien Ltd. has appointed Ken Seitz as its president and CEO. Seitz will also join the Nutrien board of directors. Seitz has served as interim […]

Beijing Green Nitrogen Biotechnology Co., Ltd., a development platform for synthetic biology nitrogen fixation technology, announced the completion of an exclusive seed round of 10 […]

Plant Response Inc. announces new employees joining the company as its biologicals business continues to grow. Matt Sowder is the company’s new director of global […]

AMVAC has established a GreenSolutions product team dedicated to their biological portfolio, which consists of biopesticides, biostimulants, and biofertilizers. The product team will develop and […]

Pivot Bio announced its expansion into Canada with the appointment of Chuck Broughton, general manager. Broughton brings more than 30 years of industry experience to […]

US-based Performance Nutrition launched its new NutriWise brand, a granular fertilizer and water-soluble powder (WSP) that replaces the old NutriSmart product line. The new products […]

James Howard has been named biological solutions advisor, Great Lakes region, at BioWorks. In his new position, Howard will increase BioWorks’ ability to deliver personalized […]

Oxitec Ltd, a developer of biological pest control solutions, announced the successful completion of the second large-scale pilot season of the Friendly fall armyworm. The […]

Benito Varela joins GroPro Corp. as new chief operating officer. Varela has almost 30 years of experience in agribusiness, including 25 years at Dow Agrosciences, […]

Germany-based HanseAndina has acquired a minority stake in Israeli start-up Botanohealth Ltd. 2BMonthly puts the questions to HanseAndina's director and founder Jan Onnen. Founded in […]

U.S. family-owned conglomerate J.M. Huber Corp. has clinched a binding agreement to buy Italian fertilizer maker Biolchim from NB Renaissance and Chequers Capital, the two […]