The combination of supply chain disruptions, and increased prices for two main active herbicide ingredients, are leading a Purdue Professor of Weed Science to believe there will be a herbicide shortag...
CGIAR urged global leaders to ensure the 500 million smallholder farmers responsible for up to a third of global food production can adapt to climate change-induced loss and damage. Innovations are ne...
The growing world population needs a secure supply of food. Biofortifying staple foods is one way to solve challenges in the food industry. A paper recently published in Biology has considered the use...
A new study has raised fears that populations of an invasive insect responsible for billions of dollars of lost harvests across dozens of African countries have formed one intercontinental ‘super-popu...
Higher prices and empty shelves have been one of the hallmarks of the shipping crisis, as a historic number of cargo ships wait off the coast of Southern California to bring goods to port and offload ...
An expert team at the hybrid rice demonstration base of Hebei Silicon Valley Agricultural Science Research Institute, in Yongnian District, Handan City, Hebei Province, China, on October 23, physicall...
Three years after the ban on the herbicide paraquat in Brazil, farmers are still finding it difficult to replace this broad-spectrum herbicide belonging to the chemical group bipyridine, which acts on...
The Uruguayan Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries limited the use of the active ingredient paraquat dichloride, prohibiting its use as a crop desiccant.According to a resolution of the G...
China, one of the largest suppliers of inputs for manufacturing agricultural pesticides, faces severe energy restrictions that threaten the Brazilian agribusiness, said Professor Marcos Fava Neves, a ...
The possibility of using the hormonal herbicide Dicamba in the current crop, which will feature for the first time a variety of soybean tolerant to the agrochemical, led to an extraordinary meeting of...
One of the strategies of the government to deal with a possible lack of pesticides for crops in the future is to anticipate registration requests for new suppliers at Anvisa, said Director of the Depa...
The input price scenario for 2022 is growing more complicated and scary by the week. Farmers are already preparing for added costs to grow a crop next year, but even today's prices may be an accurate ...