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Ban air fresheners, not biotech

It’s not often the topic of air fresheners comes up at an ag conference, so imagine my surprise when this flashed on a screen during a seminar at Crop World Global 2011: Every year, 2,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized with injuries due to air fresheners.

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  • Mar. 14, 2012
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    Ban air fresheners, not biotech

    It’s not often the topic of air fresheners comes up at an ag conference, so imagine my surprise when this flashed on a screen during a seminar at Crop World Global 2011: Every year, 2,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized with injuries due to air fresheners....More
  • Mar. 14, 2012
    Article

    Ban air fresheners, not biotech

    It’s not often the topic of air fresheners comes up at an ag conference, so imagine my surprise when this flashed on a screen during a seminar at Crop World Global 2011: Every year, 2,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized with injuries due to air fresheners....More
  • Mar. 13, 2012
    Article

    Pioneer’s latest single-bag refuge product approved

    DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred just received approval to market its latest single-bag corn product for corn borer and corn rootworm protection. Optimum AcreMax XTreme will be sold for the 2013 season and contains the full refuge requirement in the bag for above and below ground insect protection in corn....More
  • Mar. 12, 2012
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    Above- and below-ground insect protection from Pioneer Hi-Bred

    Josh St. Peters, corn marketing manager for Pioneer Hi-Bred, explains the benefits of Optimum AcreMax above-ground insect protection, in addition to AcreMax Xtra for above- and below-ground protection. Pioneer also plans to release a new product called AcreMax Extreme, which is scheduled to hit the market in 2013, pending EPA approval....More
  • Mar. 1, 2012
    Article

    Monsanto to add dicamba-tolerant trait to RR soybeans

    Monsanto announced at the 2012 Commodity Classic a dicamba-tolerant trait that will be stacked with Genuity RR 2Yield soybeans. The new soybean line will be called RR 2 Xtend. Accompanying the new trait will be a dicamba and glyphosate herbicide premix called Roundup Xtend for pre and post applications....More
  • Feb. 28, 2012
    Article

    Surge in seed treatments, crop protection

    Very soon, 100% of corn and soybean seed will be sold with seed treatments. While corn already is at 100%, soybeans are expected to reach that level soon as companies perfect just-in-time seed treating for beans....More
  • Feb. 10, 2012
    blog

    An inside view of Syngenta's global financial report to media

    Farm Industry News blogger Mark Moore gives his impressions of attending Syngenta's 2011 financial report to the media in Basel, Switzerland....More
  • Jan. 10, 2012
    Article

    Dow AgroSciences, German firm to conduct biotech research

    Dow AgroSciences has signed a research agreement with Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Ecology to collaborate on novel biotech approaches to improving crops....More
  • Dec. 15, 2011
    Article

    Pioneer Hi-Bred to work with Israeli genetics firm

    Pioneer Hi-Bred will have a new source of genes to test for drought tolerance. DuPont, Pioneer’s parent company, signed a research agreement with Rosetta Green, an Israeli plant genetics company....More
  • Dec. 8, 2011
    Article

    Biotechnology and U.S. crop yield trends

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