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Bayer betting billions farmers will back linked-up supplies

By GFM Network News September 16, 2016

Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer’s US$66 billion purchase of Monsanto amounts to a long-term bet that farmers will grow to trust combinations of seeds and pesticides rather than continue to pick from ranges of separate products. In the short term, the German drugs and chemicals firm hopes to benefit from a marketing and sales force […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Be ready for canola harvest

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Michael Hutton September 7, 2016

When planning your canola harvest this season, remember that it’s never a bad idea to seed hybrids with a mix of maturity timings. This will allow you to space out your harvest timing as fields are coming ready. From a risk management standpoint, those different-maturity varieties will not be at the same susceptible growth stages […] Read more

Syngenta’s Interaction Centre at Stein, Switzerland. (Syngenta.com)

Crops, Reuters

ChemChina extends tender offers for Syngenta

By Reuters, GFM Network News September 6, 2016

Zurich | Reuters — ChemChina on Tuesday extended by almost two months the deadline for Syngenta investors to tender their shares as the Chinese company seeks to complete a US$43 billion takeover of the Swiss pesticides and seeds group. Investors in Basel-based Syngenta now have until Nov. 8 to tender their shares unless this is […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. Senate judiciary committee to hold hearing on ag chem deals

By Reuters, GFM Network News August 23, 2016

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Senate judiciary committee will hold a hearing in late September to discuss the mergers of Dow Chemical and Dupont as well as ChemChina’s purchase of Syngenta, committee chair Charles Grassley said in a statement Tuesday. Grassley, a Republican from the farm state of Iowa, has already expressed concern that […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. watchdog clears ChemChina’s takeover of Syngenta

By Reuters, GFM Network News August 22, 2016

Zurich | Reuters — A U.S. regulator has cleared ChemChina’s US$43 billion takeover of Swiss pesticides and seeds group Syngenta, the companies said Monday, boosting chances that the largest foreign acquisition ever by a Chinese company will go through. The decision should remove significant uncertainty over whether the acquisition of the world’s largest pesticides maker […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Long-term U.K. study links neonics to wild bee declines

By GFM Network News August 16, 2016

London | Reuters — Wild bees that forage from oilseed rape crops treated with insecticides known as neonicotinoids are more likely to undergo long-term population declines than bees that forage from other sources, according to the findings of an 18-year study. The new research covered 62 species of bee found in the wild in Britain […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Monsanto in talks with Bayer, others about ‘strategic options’

By GFM Network News June 29, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Monsanto is in talks with Bayer and other companies regarding “alternative strategic options,” a month after it rejected the German company’s US$62 billion takeover offer, the U.S. seed producer said on Wednesday. Monsanto’s options include combinations with other companies and businesses in the sector beyond Bayer. Potential deals could involve BASF […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Agrium sees opportunities from major merger talk

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News June 8, 2016

Reuters — Agrium, North America’s largest retail seller of products for crop producers, could benefit if some of the biggest makers of seed and agricultural chemicals merge, CEO Chuck Magro said on Wednesday. Responding to a question during a company investor day in Toronto about how possible tie-ups of ChemChina and Syngenta, or of Bayer […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

BASF says not backed into corner by Bayer’s Monsanto swoop

By GFM Network News June 8, 2016

Ludwigshafen, Germany | Reuters — BASF, which has so far kept out of a consolidation push among global seeds and pesticides groups, said its business model was not affected by rival Bayer’s plans to buy Monsanto. “We are not backed into a corner by what is happening in the market,” the group’s deputy chief executive […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Water Management Research Unit, ARS/USDA)

Corn, Crops, Reuters

U.S. EPA draft report calls out atrazine for risk to animals

By GFM Network News June 3, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — One of the most popular herbicides in U.S. agriculture can be dangerous to animals and fish and leaves behind worrisome residue levels, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday in a draft report that sparked outrage among farmers. The agency’s assessment of atrazine could lead to tighter regulatory limits on […] Read more

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Tag Archives Syngenta

Bayer betting billions farmers will back linked-up supplies

Be ready for canola harvest

ChemChina extends tender offers for Syngenta

U.S. Senate judiciary committee to hold hearing on ag chem deals

U.S. watchdog clears ChemChina’s takeover of Syngenta

Long-term U.K. study links neonics to wild bee declines

Monsanto in talks with Bayer, others about ‘strategic options’

Agrium sees opportunities from major merger talk

BASF says not backed into corner by Bayer’s Monsanto swoop

U.S. EPA draft report calls out atrazine for risk to animals

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