New EU Health and Consumer Commissioner John Dalli has acted swiftly to kick-start the approval process for genetically modified crops by authorising the cultivation of BASF’s GM improved starch ...

The average cost of discovering, developing and registering a new crop protection product rose by 39% to $256 million between 2000 and 2005-08, according to a study by UK consultancy company Phillips ...

Brazil narrowly surpassed Argentina as the second-largest grower of genetically modified crops after the US in 2009, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech ...

DuPont projects a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 55% for sales of new agrochemicals between 2007 and 2013. Such sales are expected to rise from around $300 million in 2009 to over ...

Monsanto has marked the completion of a $200 million expansion to its US Roundup (glyphosate) herbicide manufacturing plant in Luling, Louisiana. The near two-year project began in April 2008 (Agrow ...

BASF Plant Science has broadened its licence to use French biotechnology company Cellectis’ (Paris) proprietary meganuclease technology. The agreement extends the licence signed by Cellectis and BASF ...

Dow AgroSciences is investing more than $340 million in the expansion of its US global headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. It plans to construct a 175,000 sq ft (16,260 m 2 ) research and ...

Continuing low prices for the herbicide, glyphosate, have prompted Nufarm to issue a profit warning ahead of the release if its first-half results for fiscal 2010 at the end of March. The company ...

Spain has granted an exceptional use authorisation for the fumigant, 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), a farmer association from the major vegetable producing region, Almeria, says. The approval runs for ...

Monsanto has marked the completion of a $200 million expansion to its US Roundup (glyphosate) herbicide manufacturing plant in Luling, Louisiana. The near two-year project began in April 2008 (Agrow ...

The US biopesticide company, Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI - Davis, California), has applied for US approvals for two new agricultural biopesticides. One is a Chromobacterium substugae-based ...

Bayer CropScience ’s has introduced its non-systemic fungicide, Teldor Plus (fenhexamid) in Italy. The suspension concentrate liquid formulation was approved last month and replaces the previous ...

A US judge has postponed his decision on a request for an injunction on the planting of Monsanto/KWS Saat’s genetically modified glyphosate-tolerant Roundup Ready sugar beet. After a March 5th ...

The first crop of genetically modified SmartStax maize was planted in the US this month. A farmer in Texas planted the seed, which was purchased from the Dow AgroSciences affiliate, Triumph Seed. ...

The Peruvian government is seeking a moratorium on the import of genetically modified seed until 2014. The Minister of the Environment, Antonio Brack, is “soon to issue the Agricultural Biosafety ...

A poll of European farmers has revealed that they consider new technology and genetically modified crops as the most important tools to increase food production, says the European biotechnology ...