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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, December 29, 2024
While Washington has been focused on how tax reform could spur economic growth, our nation’s interest with modernization and progress should go way beyond taxes.
Opponents of industry mergers and modern farming techniques thought they had the perfect partners in the Obama Administration to more strictly enforce anti-trust laws and stop industry consolidation in agriculture. That didn’t happen.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2017 – Bayer has agreed to sell significant parts of its seed and non-selective herbicide businesses to BASF for nearly $7 billion, part of Bayer’s plans to divest the assets as it prepares to acquire Monsanto.
MONHEIM, Germany, Sept. 19, 2017 – The proposed merger between Bayer and Monsanto will need a little more time to finalize, but Bayer executives remain optimistic about what could lie ahead for the new company.
UNITED KINGDOM, July 5, 2017 - A large, field-scale study that examined the effects of two widely used neonicotinoid insecticides on bees in three European countries has produced mixed results, which are being interpreted in starkly different ways.
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 - The Foundation for Food and Agriculture has joined with Bayer, Precision Plant Sciences and several other companies and organizations to launch the Crops of the Future Collaborative...
BASEL, SWITZERLAND, June 27 – Now that the acquisition is complete, leaders of both Syngenta and its new parent company, ChemChina, have a plan to make important changes as they advance their joint strategies. But they’ll also work on keeping quite a few things the same.
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017 – DuPont and Dow Chemical say they’ve gotten approval from the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division for their merger, a combination that will create the world’s largest crop protection and seeds company.
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - Dow AgroSciences has paid Bayer CropScience $469.4 million to resolve a patent dispute over a gene conferring glufosinate resistance.
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2017 - Syngenta is making big changes in its North American Seeds leadership team with the selection of David Hollinrake as President, Syngenta Seeds, LLC and North America Region Director.
