Crop Protection News
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SVG Ventures | THRIVE and Bayer Announce their Sustainability Challenge Winners
Today, SVG Ventures | THRIVE and Bayer announced the winners of their 2021 Sustainability Challenge. The Sustainable Startup Award was presented to Haystack, a US based company that enables carbon market scalability by helping farmers and carbon markets quantify carbon accurately and cost-effectively. Haystack will receive a prize package that includes investment from SVG Ventures and a place ...
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Small Robot Company £4m Crowdfunding Success: Public Back Sustainable Farming Future
Small Robot Company (SRC), a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, raised £4 million in a successful equity crowdfunding campaign with Crowdcube. The company has now secured £11 million in funding to date. Over 2500 retail investors backed the campaign, with the initial target of £2m raised on the day of launch. The campaign then doubled the target, reaching the ...
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2021 Accelerating a Generation Syngenta Scholarship Program recipients chosen
Six students looking to study everything from agronomy and crop science to environmental engineering have earned a $2,500 scholarship, plus a donation to the charity of their choosing, through the Accelerating a Generation Syngenta Scholarship Program. A talented crop of students applied to the 2021 scholarship program, in a partnership with Syngenta and run by the National FFA ...
By Syngenta
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Precision fungicide application becomes reality with new SprayBot project
DEVISING a method for the precision application of fungicides and biopesticides is being investigated in a newly commissioned project funded by Innovate UK. Following a successful Smart Grant application, a three year feasibility study called SprayBot will take place delivered by Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) in collaboration with partners Newcastle University, Small Robot Company and ...
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Precision fungicide application becomes reality with new SprayBot project
DEVISING a method for the precision application of fungicides and biopesticides is being investigated in a newly commissioned project funded by Innovate UK. Following a successful Smart Grant application, a three year feasibility study called SprayBot will take place delivered by Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) in collaboration with partners Newcastle University, Small Robot Company and ...
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A New Era in Agriculture: Crop cultivation with Negative Carbon Footprint
A New Era in Agriculture: Crop cultivation with Negative Carbon Footprint Brite in cooperation with Tsantalis. the largest winemaker in Greece, developed an experimental greenhouse for viticulture cultivation using Brite's Solar Glass. This fully automated greenhouse has a cultivation area of 1,200 m3 and operates all year round due to its heating and cooling systems. The cultivated crop is a ...
By Brite Solar
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A New Era in Agriculture: Crop cultivation with Negative Carbon Footprint
Brite in cooperation with Tsantalis, the largest wmemaker in Greece, developed an experimental greenhouse for viticulture cultivation using Brite's Solar Glass. This fully automated greenhouse has a cultivation area of 1,200 m3 and operates all year round due to its heating and cooling systems. The cultivated crop is a grape variety native to Greece, called Asyrtiko, and used for making white ...
By Brite Solar
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BioConsortia Moves to New, Larger Laboratories and Expands R&D Team
BioConsortia, a leader in microbial solutions that improve plant phenotypes and increase crop yields with reduced chemical and fertilizer inputs, is announcing an expansion of its R&D laboratories and team with a new, state-of-the-art facility in Davis, CA. BioConsortia’s new facility is located at Cousteau Place in Davis, CA, encompassing initially 15,000 square feet of laboratories ...
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Global interpretation of how New Breeding Techniques would benefit horticulture
AIPH is the World’s Champion for the Power of Plants. Through our Novelty Protection Group, we advocate a strong and effective plant breeders’ rights (PBR) system, encouraging innovation through breeding and rewarding quality of the propagating material, so that new varieties will be produced and will be available for growers. Opening the meeting and introducing our keynote speaker ...
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Truterra and EFC Systems collaborate to offer ag retailers stronger tools to support sustainability, profitability for farmer customers
Truterra, LLC, the sustainability business at Land O’Lakes, Inc., one of America’s largest farmer-owned cooperatives, today announced a new collaboration with EFC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of solutions for ag retailers and growers. This initiative will unlock new value for ag retailers by allowing them to offer their growers an easy way to benchmark their current level of ...
By EFC Systems
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Biocontrol agent dianem wins international award
Our biological plant protection product dianem has just won the Bernhard Blum Award. This award is presented annually by IBMA, the International biocontrol manufacturers association, to the most innovative biocontrol product of the year. The product dianem contains a genetically improved strain of beneficial nematodes against the Western Corn Rootworm and replaces chemical pesticides banned by ...
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NNFCC joins 15 other partners in the newly launched horizon2020-funded beonnat project
BeonNAT is a project that aims to develop innovative products from underutilised plant biomass as feedstock for the bio-based industry. The fed biomass will be derived from shrubs, trees and other woody species. The scope of the project ranges from the cultivation and harvesting of selected species, to the extraction and purification of oils and vegetable extracts, paper manufacturing, biochar ...
By NNFCC Ltd.
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EPA Announces Proposal to Add Chitosan to the List of Active Ingredients Permitted in Exempted Minimum Risk Pesticide Products
On August 20, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is seeking to add chitosan to the list of active ingredients allowed for in minimum risk pesticides exempted from pesticide registration requirements under Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Section 25(b). A minimum risk product must meet six specific conditions to be exempted from ...
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BIO Announces New Leadership for Food and Agriculture Section Governing Board
The Food and Agriculture Section of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) is pleased to announce the election of its new Board leadership. Sylvia Wulf, CEO of AquaBounty Technologies, Inc., and Brian Brazeau, President of Novozymes North America, were elected as the new Chair and Vice Chair, respectively, of BIO’s Food and Agriculture Section Governing Board. Wulf and Brazeau ...
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New High Density for Large Fruit Plantations
The High Density is a sprayer designed to carry out localized treatments, transferring the usual proximity of vineyard applications to other crops such as apple trees, pear trees and other fruit trees in the “trellis” plantation model, and also in the super-intensive olive and almond crops, among others. This sprayer allows efficient and precise spraying, which saves approximately 40% ...
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Final SECURE Rule Will Update and Modernize USDA’s Biotechnology Regulations
On May 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued the much-anticipated final Sustainable, Ecological, Consistent, Uniform, Responsible, Efficient (SECURE) rule. 85 Fed. Reg. 29790. The rule is intended to update and modernize USDA’s biotechnology regulations under the Plant Protection Act. The final rule amends the ...
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Arizona Company Bolsters Expertise In Soil Health
“We have spent the last 10 years at Heliae, working on solutions in microalgae, providing food to the bacteria in the soil, stimulating the microbiome. This relentless focus on researching soil microbiology has uniquely positioned Heliae capable of detecting and addressing soil concerns for the next 50 years. A feat only possible through the expertise and dedication of our people.” ...
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U.S. Chemical Production Edges Higher To Start the Year
According to the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) edged higher by 0.1 percent in January following a 0.1 percent decline in December and a 0.2 percent decline in November. During January, chemical output declined across all regions except the Gulf Coast. Chemical production was mixed over the three-month period. There were gains in the ...
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Regional seminar of Bulagro in Silistra
On February 18th, we held a regional meeting with farmers from northeast Bulgaria, during which we introduced our proposals for the upcoming spring campaign. The highlights in terms of foliar nutrition were the well-known products of the Italian company Valagro and the Spanish SAS. Dr. Dimitar Stoychev, Product manager at Bulagro AD, explained the symptoms of the main deficiencies of micro and ...
By Bulagro AD
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Agricultural machinery market, an uneven picture
Data on the sales of tractors in the leading countries indicate growth in the United States and Europe in 2019, while India, China and Turkey are decreasing. Exports of Italian machinery are growing. Negative forecasts for the first months of the new year. The world tractor market presented an uneven trend in 2019. The United States recorded a 3.6% growth in sales with 245 thousand units - ...
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