France will continue to export grain to countries in North Africa after the food safety watchdog agreed to roll back a planned ban of phosphine, an insecticide that certain countries require to be used to treat grain before it is offloaded. The agency also announced a ban on a po...

Aphids are a priority pest to manage for most Australian producers, and new research from Cesar Australia investigating the implications of neonicotinoid resistance in the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) could change how and when these chemical treatments are best used in broa...

Sugarcane contributed US$1.67 billion in agrochemicals in the 2022 (fiscal year) in Brazil, Kynetec consultancy revealed to AgroPages.Growth regulators and other products �? adjuvants, pH reducers, inoculants, and oils, mainly �? accounted for 4% of the market, totaling $79 milli...

Potato is the third most important food crop in the world after rice and wheat in terms of human consumption. But potato world production is threatened by potato late blight, one of the most devastating potato diseases which causes globally 3-10 billion euros in yield loss and ma...

Since late 2020, there has been a severe drought in East Africa. In large areas of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, there have been four consecutively seasons with insufficient rainfall, resulting in the worst drought in modern history. The meteorological drought has led to the loss ...

From China to the U.S. to the European Union, rice production is falling and driving up prices for more than 3.5 billion people across the globe, particularly in Asia-Pacific – which consumes 90% of the world’s rice. The global rice market is set to log its largest shortfall in t...

Researchers at four universities – three in the U.S. and one in China -- say that increasingly warmer weather patterns in the Corn Belt could increase the growth of a toxin that would swell farmers’ losses and threaten an important food source over the next two decades. Their stu...

In recent years, the bioinput market has become increasingly present in agriculture, showing vigorous growth in Brazil. According to various market source information, the segment is broad and generates around R$675 million, and there are 50 million hectares using various biologi...

The diamondback moth (DBM), , is one of the most destructive insect pests of cole crops (prefers cabbage, cauliflower, kale, and broccoli). Globally, the annual management cost of the DBM is estimated to be four to five billion dollars. Plutella xylostella     Automatic trap for ...

Pests and diseases may reduce global wheat yields by over 20%. A study published April 11th in the open access journal PLOS Biology by Sergio Latorre at University College London, U.K., and colleagues suggest that genomic surveillance may be an effective disease management tool w...