Corn Trait Articles & Analysis
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Excluding the glyphosate business, Crop Science sales were level with the previous year (Fx & portfolio adj.), as higher prices were offset by lower volumes. Sales at Corn Seed & Traits rose by 10.6 percent (Fx & portfolio adj.), largely thanks to higher prices in all regions as well as increased acreages in North America. Business at Fungicides was ...
ByBayer AG
Following sharks’ time in the spotlight, new Bayer campaign will shine a spotlight on the devastating impact corn rootworm has the potential to levy on farmers’ harvests. ...
ByBayer AG
Initial trials under the Bayer Direct Acres program are underway in India. Transformative Trait Technologies: The company is expanding its industry-leading expertise into new spaces, like the Preceon Smart Corn System, offering reduced plant height which brings multiple benefits to the farmer. ...
ByBayer AG
Insecticides sales were up 9.1 percent (Fx & portfolio adj.), mainly driven by business in Latin America. Sales at Corn Seed & Traits decreased by 15.8 percent (Fx & portfolio adj.) in the third quarter, but are up overall this year. In the July-September period, higher prices in Latin America only partly offset the impact of lower licensing revenues ...
ByBayer AG
And in agriculture, we can give crops the traits they need to better withstand extreme weather conditions.” Baumann also emphasized Bayer's progress in its transformation toward becoming a carbon-neutral company. ...
ByBayer AG
Growth was particularly strong at Corn Seed & Traits (Fx & portfolio adj. 92.6 percent), driven by gains in North America due to lower product returns and the later receipt of license revenues. ...
ByBayer AG
With this renewed agreement we will be able to meet the requirements of our customers, based on the global strength of our corn germplasm and a wide range of competitive GM corn traits delivering sustainable solutions. Furthermore the agreement allows Genective to follow its open architecture strategy of combining own corn GM ...
BySyngenta
Syngenta today (March 17, 2015) announced that the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has approved its Bt11 x GA21 double stack corn seed for commercial cultivation in the country. This double stack will be available for the 2015/2016 season. Corn hybrids containing the Bt11 trait are designed to control the Asian ...
BySyngenta
Collaboration to use new process to make cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber Technology to be marketed in combination with Enogen corn Ethanol yield per bushel of corn expected to increase substantially Syngenta announced today an agreement with Cellulosic Ethanol Technologies, LLC to license its ACE (Adding Cellulosic Ethanol) ...
BySyngenta
A recent study by Argonne National Laboratory found that corn ethanol reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 34 percent compared to gasoline.[1] Some argue that because biofuels incentivize farmers to plant corn, this increased corn production leads to decreased enrollment in conservation programs and the resulting environmental destruction. ...
The article’s main conclusion is that biofuels have incentivized farmers to plant corn, and this increased corn production has led to environmental destruction and decreased enrollment in conservation programs. ...
During the quarter VIBRANCE was registered on over 30 additional crops in the USA, including corn, and received Annex 1 approval in the EU. In seeds, Corn and soybean grew strongly with a significant contribution from soybean in Brazil. ...
BySyngenta
Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association and U.S. Canola Association raised concerns regarding ongoing delays, lack of transparency and arbitrary decisions in China’s process of approving new ...
Chilton's groundbreaking molecular research showed how a plant bacterium could be adapted as a tool to insert genes from another organism into plant cells, which could produce crop varieties with new innovative traits. As a direct consequence of this work, in 1996 Ciba-Geigy - now Syngenta - became the first company to commercialize a GM trait in ...
BySyngenta
The National Biosafety Committee (CNBS) in Brazil has ratified a decision authorising sales of corn containing Syngenta’s Bt11 trait for Fall Armyworm and Sugarcane Borer control. Davor Pisk, Chief Operating Officer of Syngenta Seeds, said: “We are very pleased to have obtained this approval which will enable us to play a leading role in the ...
BySyngenta