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 Chinese demand, and the stalled negotiations between the U.S. and China (at least...

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 scientific studies and data on the use of the agrochemical in Brazil indicated tha...

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 deal and so balance the trade deficit that Washington has with Beijing. In this...

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 two months, we will have a decision about the future of that ban,’’ said Profes...

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 when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label and that glyphosat...

    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 exchanges with some important customers, which increased the opportunities for ...

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.Currently, mesosulfuron is the only wheat-registered foliar-applied herbicide that provi...

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 crop sequencing patterns in agriculture. The groundbreaking method utilizing satell...

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 scientists for the sustainable production of food from plants around the globe.The mov...