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Mar. 30, 2011

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Monsanto's mobile display teaches how America's farmers will feed the world

Monsanto will take its 1,000-sq.-ft. mobile display around the country to fairs and festivals to tell consumers about America's farmers. Consumers will learn that farmers can meet the challenge of feeding the world, according to Mark Halton, Monsanto corporate marketing....More
Mar. 28, 2011

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Asgrow, Genuity offer high-yield management practices for soybeans

A Genuity/Roundup Ready 2 Yield platform from Monsanto with high-yield management practices offers growers substantial yield increases in soybeans. Jerry Devore, Asgrow marketing manager, and Lisa Flynn, Genuity traits marketing manager, explain the practices....More
Mar. 23, 2011

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Bayer CropScience purchases Hornbeck Seed Company

Bayer CropScience is strengthening its position in soybean breeding with the purchase of Hornbeck Seed Company. Bayer made the announcement March 23. Hornbeck is a privately held seed company that sells soybean germplasm along with breeding for wheat and rice. The company is located in DeWitt, AK, and has supplied seed mostly to the South....More
Mar. 22, 2011

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Pioneer's Optimum Intrasect: Reduced-refuge hybrid

Pioneer Hi-Bred has received EPA approval of Optimum Intrasect insect protection, with a new trait that allows producers to reduce the structured refuge requirement for corn borer from 20% to 5%....More
Mar. 22, 2011

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RR alfalfa is back

Roundup Ready alfalfa hits the market (again)....More
Mar. 14, 2011

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Optimum AcreMax from Pioneer Hi-Bred simplifies refuge planting

Optimum AcreMax is a first generation seed product from Pioneer Hi-Bred available for planting spring 2011....More
Mar. 9, 2011

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20 technologies changing agriculture 1

From telematics to crop sensors to drought-resistance traits in hybrids, these 20 new technologies are changing the way we farm.
Mar. 9, 2011

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Monsanto enters into algae-based research with Sapphire Energy 1

Algae can be grown, screened, tested and selected with high throughput tools, which will enable researchers to more quickly identify promising genes....More
Mar. 3, 2011

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Dow AgroSciences unveils new herbicide-tolerant trait system

Dow AgroSciences has announced the Enlist Weed Control System, which is a herbicide tolerant trait system that provides tolerance to a new 2,4-D product as well as glyphosate tolerance. Pending regulatory approval, commercial launch of the product in corn is anticipated in 2013, with other crops to soon follow....More
Jun. 8, 2010

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Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences ink licensing agreement

Monsanto has granted a new royalty-bearing Roundup Ready 2 Yield license to Dow AgroSciences, which expands Dow’s...More
Oct. 16, 2009

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Bill Gates: Technology must help defeat hunger

If African farmers and the world’s hungry are to climb out of their misery and become more productive citizens,...More
Oct. 1, 2009

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LibertyLink trait in 100 brands

SOYBEAN GROWERS have another option for handling weed-resistance problems in their 2010 soybean crop. The...More
Oct. 1, 2009

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Thank you, Norman Borlaug

THE DEATH of modern agriculture's biggest champion, Norman Borlaug, is a great loss. Who better to be frank about the...More
Sep. 18, 2009

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SmartStax, 2,4-D tolerance from Dow AgroSciences

Dow AgroSciences plans to combine its 2,4-D tolerance trait with SmartStax for release in 2013. The 2,4-D tolerance...More
Sep. 1, 2009

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Eight-stack hybrid

The Eight-Trait SmartStax corn hybrid from Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences will soon hit the U.S. market. The companies...More
Jul. 27, 2009

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SmartStax receives U.S., Canadian approval

The SmartStax corn trait has cleared a major regulatory approval, gaining registration from the U.S. Environmental...More
Jun. 30, 2009

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DuPont, Bayer sign biotech cross-licensing agreements

DuPont and Bayer CropScience have announced a series of business agreements related to plant biotechnology traits and...More
May 1, 2009

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Dow AgroSciences develops precise trait engineering technology

New research published in the journal Nature confirms that a new trait engineering technology developed by Dow...More
May 1, 2009

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Dow/Syngenta cross-licensing agreement

Dow AgroSciences and Syngenta now have access to each company's corn traits. Under a recent agreement between the two...More
May 1, 2009

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Pioneer names products Optimum

As Pioneer Hi-Bred gears up for the anticipated launch of its Optimum GAT corn and soybean products in 2010 and 2011,...More
Feb. 1, 2009

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LibertyLink Soybeans for 2009

Bayer CropScience has announced the commercial launch of LibertyLink soybeans for the 2009 growing season. The new...More
Jan. 14, 2009

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Drought-tolerant Gene Closer to Market

Monsanto’s drought-tolerant corn technology has moved one step closer to commercial launch. The company has announced...More
Jan. 14, 2009

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EPA approves New Corn Trait

On the heels of Syngenta’s new Agrisure corn trait event, MIR162, receiving registration approval by the Environmental...More
Oct. 1, 2008

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LibertyLink soybeans

Soybeans with the LibertyLink trait moved closer to commercial launch in the United States. China, the largest importer...More
Sep. 23, 2008

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Corn traits reduce refuge

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