A healthy agricultural production system cannot exist without healthy soils. Aside from being the habitat of diverse organisms that contribute to carbon sequestration, the soil plays a vital role in f...
U. of I. crop sciences professor Patrick Tranel and his colleagues are working to understand the processes that lead to herbicide resistance in plants. - Photo by Fred ZwickyAfter exposing more than 7...
Brazilian farmers are getting ready to harvest what they hope will be a very good safrinha corn crop. The safrinha corn crop is the second crop of corn planted after the first crop of soybeans are har...
Soybean sales in Brazil had been slowing down in recent weeks due to weakening prices, but the trend reversed course over the past ten days. The combination of a weaker Brazilian currency, increased C...
Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency, the Anvisa, concluded the re-evaluation of 2,4-D and has decided to maintain the approval of the herbicide in the Brazilian market. The analysis of the sc...
Trumps “tactical twitter tweet” threatening additional tariffs might, hopefully, just be one more layer of strategy to pressure the Chinese government into speeding up the process of coming to a trade...
Kenya is reconsidering its 2012 import ban on genetically modified maize as more than 1 million of its citizens require urgent humanitarian food assistance due to prolonged drought.“In the next one or...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking an important step in the agency’s review of glyphosate . As part of this action, EPA continues to find that there are no risks to public health...
Nanjing Essence Fine-Chemical Co., Ltd. attended the Agritech Zambia 2019 held in Zambia On 11-13 April 2019. During the meeting, we met many local customers and had face-to-face communication and...
Nicosulfuron tolerant wheat. - Credit: IGDBChinese farmers are facing worsening problems with jointed goatgrass (Aegilops tauschii) - a close relative to wheat - growing in their wheat fields.Currentl...
Pre-crop values for a high number of previous and following crop combinations originating from farmers' fields are, for the first time, available to support diversification of currently monotonous cro...
A Dubai-based gene bank containing the world’s largest collections of genetic material of heat- and salt-tolerant plant species has officially been made available to farmers, plant breeders and scient...
