Prices Rise But Costs Similar

Bayer CropScience is cutting the cost of Liberty herbicide but increasing the price on InVigor canola seed for 2012, saying the change will give growers more flexibility to manage resistance. “We are providing growers with an even more economical resistance management tool and the increased freedom to choose higher labelled rates or a more economical

Bayer Settles U. S. Rice Contamination Case

Germany’s Bayer AG has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of Texas rice growers over claims the company’s experimental biotech rice contaminated the U. S. supply four years ago and decimated exports. Bayer said it had agreed to pay $290,000 to settle the case, involving eight plaintiffs from three farming operations. The


Herbicide Offers Three Actives, One Jug

Prairie wheat and barley growers will be able to get a new grass and broadleaf herbicide combining three different modes of action in one jug. Bayer CropScience on March 17 launched Tundra for use in spring and durum wheat and barley crops, combining fenoaxaprop-p-ethyl, bromoxynil and pyrasulfotole from herbicide Groups 1, 6 and 27 respectively,

New Bayer CropScience Canada CEO

Kamel Beliazi, currently head of Bayer CropScience in Mexico, will be moving north to Calgary to take on new challenges as president and CEO of Bayer CropScience Canada on July 1, 2009. Beliazi takes over from Hartmut van Lengerich, who has been promoted to a new role leading a global crop strategy unit focused on


EU says poultry spat with U. S. too hard to fix

A promise by the European Commission to lift an 11-year-old ban on U. S. poultry imports has proven too hard to fulfil and it was probably unwise to try, a top EU official said Oct. 18. “It is a very, very contaminated political area,” EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said, referring to resistance in European