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BASF renews partnership with 4-H Canada

The company pledged $600,000 to boost the club’s community engagement and communications programming

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 3, 2021

BASF will continue to fund 4-H Canada’s community engagement and communications programming into 2023, the organization announced February 17. “Throughout the first year of our partnership with 4-H Canada, we were constantly inspired by Canada’s youth – their drive to take action and inspire change within their local communities is admirable,” said Jonathan Sweat, vice-president of BASF

A wireworm in a potato in close-up. (MegaV0lt/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

Wireworms a target for first Group 30 insecticide in Canada

BASF picks up registration for two broflanilide products

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News October 20, 2020

The list of insecticides cleared for use in Canadian crops now includes its first Group 30 chemistry, as BASF makes plans to launch it in new wireworm control products next year. BASF Canada Agricultural Solutions on Monday announced approval from Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) for broflanilide, a GABA-gated chloride channel allosteric modulator.

An InVigor canola plot at Ag in Motion in 2019.

News, Oilseeds

InVigor canola genetics get an upgrade

BASF points to yield, pod-shatter resistance of canola hybrids

By Allan Dawson August 12, 2020

BASF promoted two of its new 300 Series InVigor canola hybrids — L340PC and L357P — during a July 22 webinar. “L340PC contains both first-generation clubroot resistance as well (as) BASF’s patented pod-shatter technology,” Wade Stocker, BASF’s manager of canola seeds and traits, told the webinar. “It’s a high-yielding hybrid that was 107.8 per cent

News

BASF’s ‘novel’ wireworm seed treatment makes pitch to PMRA

Teraxxa could be available in Western Canada next year if approved by Canadian regulatory authorities

By Allan Dawson August 7, 2020

BASF hopes Teraxxa F4, its new cereal seed insecticide for wireworm control, will be available in Western Canada next year. Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) is reviewing Teraxxa and must approve it before it can be used commercially in Canada. The seed treatment is now in the public consultation period after getting handed

Markets, Other

BASF says dividends, asset values under review as pandemic bites

By GFM Network News, Ludwig Burger July 29, 2020

Frankfurt | Reuters – Germany’s BASF said on Wednesday its dividend policy and the value of assets on its balance sheet might be revised given uncertainty caused by the coronavirus crisis, particularly in North America and Europe. The policy of the world’s largest chemicals and plastics maker by sales to increase dividends each year and

BASF has a new website that will show farmers its research farms online.
Photo: (BASF website screengrab)

Crops

BASF unveils InField Innovation Tours

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News July 27, 2020

BASF is making it easier, and during the pandemic, safer for farmers to get information about its products. On July 27 it launched a new website allowing farmers to visit the company’s research farms virtually. “InField Innovation Tours is a unique, virtual tour experience that enables anyone, from anywhere, to journey into our fields and

Crops

Ag chem industry watching COVID-19’s spread

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 6, 2020

MarketsFarm –– China is a major producer of agricultural chemicals — and disruptions to production would have a ripple effect on North American supplies of crop protection inputs, such as herbicides and insecticides. Plant closures and transportation issues due to the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus are being followed closely, but the Canadian industry is reportedly

BASF’s dicamba production facility in Beaumont, Tex. (BASF.com)

Crops, Weather

Peach grower awarded US$265 million in dicamba drift suit

By GFM Network News, Reuters February 17, 2020

Reuters — A Missouri jury’s US$265 million award to peach grower Bill Bader in his lawsuit against herbicide providers Bayer and BASF has raised the stakes for the two companies as at least 140 similar cases head to U.S. courts later this year. A jury in U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, handed Bader,

Charles Baron and partners brought FBN to Canada in 2017, buying Saskatchewan-based Yorkton Distributors. (FBN video screengrab via YouTube)

Crops

Court orders big ag firms to hand over documents in antitrust probe

By GFM Network News February 12, 2020

Ottawa | Reuters — A Canadian federal court has ordered a group of major agriculture companies to hand over records and communications in an antitrust probe sparked by allegations some businesses tried to block online farm-supply startup Farmers Business Network (FBN). In a series of court orders issued Tuesday, Federal Court Justice Denis Gascon said

Crops, Other

Probe eyes possibility of ‘co-ordinated behaviour’ in Big Ag

Competition Bureau probes majors' response to FBN's Canadian launch

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News February 8, 2020

Canada’s Competition Bureau is investigating leading agriculture companies for allegedly attempting to drive a California-based online farm-supply retailer out of the Canadian market. Documents filed in Federal Court show Federated Co-operatives, Cargill, Winfield United Canada, Univar Canada, BASF Canada Inc., Corteva and Bayer CropScience (and, by extension, Monsanto Canada) are all under investigation. Investigators with

U.S. grains: Wheat futures rise on supply snags in top-exporter Russia

Trump tariff on Brazilian goods could jack up U.S. burger price

U.S. livestock: Cattle mixed despite fresh supply threats

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Wheat futures rise on supply snags in top-exporter Russia

Trump tariff on Brazilian goods could jack up U.S. burger price

U.S. livestock: Cattle mixed despite fresh supply threats

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BASF renews partnership with 4-H Canada

Wireworms a target for first Group 30 insecticide in Canada

InVigor canola genetics get an upgrade

BASF’s ‘novel’ wireworm seed treatment makes pitch to PMRA

BASF says dividends, asset values under review as pandemic bites

BASF unveils InField Innovation Tours

Ag chem industry watching COVID-19’s spread

Peach grower awarded US$265 million in dicamba drift suit

Court orders big ag firms to hand over documents in antitrust probe

Probe eyes possibility of ‘co-ordinated behaviour’ in Big Ag

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