The market for seed biotechnology for controlling caterpillars in soybeans has been consolidated and is expanding in Brazil, while the use of specific insecticides for caterpillars has dropped in valu...
Rice is one of the most important staple foods globally, providing one fifth of the calories consumed by humans. However, the major areas where rice are grown are blighted by pathogens—organisms that ...
The war in Ukraine is expected to expand wheat production in Argentina and Brazil, the primary wheat-producing nations in South America. Both nations will likely already increase wheat planting this s...
We've all heard that "the cure for high prices is high prices." The basic idea is that high prices and strong profitability will encourage producers to increase output. For crop production, there are ...
Countries in the northern hemisphere are entering the spring season, but a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine has not been reached. The war has brought great trauma to the people and economy o...
Promoting early season plant cover, primarily through the use of cover crops, can be more effective at reducing pest density and crop damage than insecticide applications, according to a Penn State-le...
A CABI-led study has developed the first forecasting models targeting the larval stages of fall armyworm – using near real-time earth observation data and pest occurrence within a farmers field, the m...
There is no such thing as a localised conflict in a globalised world. Sooner rather than later, fallouts from the Russia-Ukraine war will overwhelm the operations of developed and developing economies...
It’s a tricky trap of wording when discussing the volume of pesticides used in the United States. Endeavoring to swim through the writings of both proponents and opponents alike, it becomes reminiscen...
According to data published on April 5, by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), herbicides were the main type of plant-protection product sold in Ireland in 2020.This finding is part of a wider body o...
IntroductionGlobal grain markets have been managing through a period of extreme price volatility following the conflict in Ukraine, a situation that has reignited the grain rally of 2020-21. The volat...
We live in interesting times. Just getting ready with your thoughts to assess the impact of the sharp increase in the price of active ingredients in China and the difficult logistics, as even more sig...