Corn at Bayer site, COFS 2025

Keep corn rootworm off balance

Hitting it with the same solution year-after-year will just create a new problem

Bayer Crop Science staff say corn production success for Ontario growers includes rotation out of corn, and rotating modes of action when fighting insect pests in the crop.

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Bayer looks to AI to combat herbicide resistance faster

Bayer's Icafolin will be its first new mode of action herbicide in some 30 years when it launches in 2028

Weeds are growing resistant to the herbicides already on the market, and agribusiness companies like Bayer are in a desperate search for new modes of action to help farmers kill them.





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U.S. dicamba ruling won’t touch Canada: Bayer

Thousands of American farmers who have already bought the herbicide now in a bind after court bans over-the-top use

An Arizona court decision that essentially prohibits American farmers from using dicamba for over-the-top spraying on soybeans and cotton will not stop Canadian growers from using the herbicide this year, says Bayer Crop Science Canada.

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At Ag in Motion: Farmers gung-ho about digital integration system

'Having a single data point... was number one for us'

For a committed user of the Climate FieldView digital integration system, Mike Ferguson had an unusual observation about himself. “I’m not a big technology guy,” said Ferguson, who with his wife Regan farms 3,000 acres at Melfort, Sask. But for him, using the various data-based management tools available in farming today isn’t just helpful, but


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Bayer plans more cost cuts, impairment charges

Pandemic now expected to hit crop science wing

Berlin | Reuters — German drugs and chemical company Bayer announced plans on Wednesday for more than 1.5 billion euros (C$2.34 billion) of cost cuts as of 2024 and said it would take impairment charges on its agricultural business as it battles with low commodity prices. Bayer said that the impact of the coronavirus on



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Forty per cent straight cut canola by 2020?

New shatter-resistant varieties may hold the key to continued expansion of this harvest practice

Don’t park the swather just yet. More western Canadian canola will be straight cut than ever before this season, but swathing remains the predominant form of harvest for the time being. Bayer CropScience’s James Humphris believes the increased interest stems in no small part from the shatter-resistance traits that are being added to the latest

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Bayer sizing up deals to strengthen seeds operation

Leverkusen, Germany | Reuters — Bayer’s Crop Science business is casting its eye over potential targets to enhance its seeds operation, the division’s head said on Thursday, as competitive threats increase with big mergers among its rivals. The Bayer CropScience operation comprises the world’s second-largest pesticides supplier but remains a much smaller player in seeds,