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Canada to impose tariffs on U.S., challenge at WTO

By Allison Martell, GFM Network News June 1, 2018

Reuters — Canada will impose retaliatory tariffs on $16.6 billion worth of U.S. exports and challenge U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization (WTO), Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Thursday. The Canadian tariffs are set to go into effect on July 1 and

The Elbe River at Oberrathen, southeast of Dresden. (CIA.gov)

Crops

Germany plans to toughen conditions for insecticide use

By GFM Network News, Reuters May 2, 2018

Berlin | Reuters — Germany plans to make it more difficult for farmers to use crop insecticides in a bid to preserve biodiversity, an environment ministry document showed. “Insect biomass has fallen by more than 75 per cent in the last 27 years in Germany,” according to the paper seen by Reuters on Wednesday, saying

AAFC’s Bob Blackshaw talks herbicide-resistance problems and solutions at Brandon’s BASF Knowledge Harvest Feb. 13.

Crops

Manage herbicide resistance in the tank and out

Industry is pushing both chemical and non-chemical solutions to growing herbicide-resistance problems in Manitoba

By Alexis Stockford March 7, 2018

It’s time to expand the tool box when it comes to managing weeds. That was the message to attendees at this year’s BASF Knowledge Harvest in Brandon Feb. 13. As of 2015, there were 65 unique weed-resistance cases in Canada, AAFC’s Bob Blackshaw said, a number that rose from near negligible in 1975 and sat

A soybean field in Abbott County, South Carolina. U.S. soybean producers  are about to have an unprecedented host of options to choose from.

News, Oilseeds

Battle of the beans

Monsanto faces a tough fight for the soybean market

By Rod Nickel, Tom Polansek February 5, 2018

Monsanto is facing major threats to its historic dominance of seed and herbicide technology for the US$40-billion U.S. soybean market. Rivals BASF and DowDuPont are preparing to push their own varieties of genetically modified soybeans. At stake is control over seed supply for the next generation of farmers producing the most valuable U.S. agricultural export.

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

Crops, Weather

Minnesota joins U.S. states limiting dicamba

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek December 13, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Minnesota became the latest U.S. state on Tuesday to restrict controversial weed killers made by Monsanto and BASF that were linked to widespread crop damage, while Arkansas took a step back from imposing new limits. The U.S. has faced an agricultural crisis this year caused by new versions of the herbicides,

Soybeans damaged by dicamba. The Arkansas State Plant Board wants to ban in-crop dicamba use from April 15 to October 31 following almost 1,000 complaints about dicamba drift damaging nearby crops. The proposal needs approval from the Executive Subcommittee of the Arkansas Legislative Council.

Crops, News

Arkansas moving closer to in-crop dicamba restrictions

Its plant board wants an April 15 to Oct. 31 ban to prevent injury to crops from drift

By Allan Dawson October 16, 2017

Arkansas farmers might not be allowed to apply dicamba in annual crops during the 2018 growing season. A regulatory change prohibiting dicamba applications between April 15 and Oct. 31, was approved by the Arkansas State Plant Board, Arkansas’ Agriculture Department said in a news release Sept. 21. Read more: U.S. EPA gives dicamba ‘restricted use’ label

Kochia seedlings, part of a U.S. study of the weed, emerge in a field at  Garden City, Kansas.

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Keeping kochia in check

New research indicates the importance of early-season control of herbicide-resistant kochia

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 10, 2017

Herbicide-resistant kochia is a big problem in the U.S. Great Plains states, and has appeared in limited numbers in Manitoba over the past few years. Now researchers, writing in the latest edition of the journal Weed Science, are beginning to reveal more about how the weed works. Kochia typically begins to emerge in the U.S.

Crops

FMC deal for DuPont assets wins clearances

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 26, 2017

The chemical company set to take up a significant chunk of DuPont’s crop protection work in Canada has picked up the last of the regulatory clearances it needs to close the deal. Philadelphia-based FMC Corp. announced Thursday it received the final approval needed, from the Competition Commission of India, to close the deal the company

Crops, News

Health Canada had no herbicide drift complaints from Manitoba

That includes the herbicide dicamba, which has triggered many drift complaints in the U.S.

By Allan Dawson September 19, 2017

Health Canada has not received any herbicide drift complaints in Manitoba this season, including related to dicamba, André Gagnon, a media relations officer serving Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada, said in an email Sept. 12. That contrasts sharply with the United States where the University of Missouri says 3.1 million acres

Albaugh’s chemical plant at St. Joseph, Missouri. (AlbaughLLC.com)

Crops

Herbicide supplier Albaugh said to be exploring sale

By GFM Network News, Greg Roumeliotis August 31, 2017

Reuters — Albaugh LLC is exploring a sale that could value the privately held U.S. producer of agricultural crop protection chemicals at more than US$1.5 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Albaugh, controlled by its 67-year-old founder Dennis Albaugh, is working with investment bank JPMorgan Chase and Co. to discuss a

Daily Network News

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U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

Tag Archives Herbicide

Canada to impose tariffs on U.S., challenge at WTO

Germany plans to toughen conditions for insecticide use

Manage herbicide resistance in the tank and out

Battle of the beans

Minnesota joins U.S. states limiting dicamba

Arkansas moving closer to in-crop dicamba restrictions

Keeping kochia in check

FMC deal for DuPont assets wins clearances

Health Canada had no herbicide drift complaints from Manitoba

Herbicide supplier Albaugh said to be exploring sale

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