Farm Chemicals International

Farm Chemicals International

Tessenderlo Kerley, the US division of Brussels, Belgium-based chemicals group Tessenderlo, has acquired DuPont Crop Protection's linuron herbicide assets.

Among other restructuring changes, Monsanto has announced that it will create a separate division for its Roundup and other herbicides business.

Bayer and DuPont have entered into a series of long-term biotechnology trait agreements.

Nunhems, a subsidiary of Bayer CropScience, has opened a new experimental station in Cartagena.

Increased demand for the fungicide azoxystrobin has prompted Syngenta to expand manufacturing for azoxystrobin, the base for Quadris, Quilt, and Abound.

Ajay Shriram -- Director of the Fertilizer Association of India (FAI) and DCM Shriram Consolidated Limited (DSCL) -- is the new President of the International Fertilizer Industry Association.

Dow AgroSciences and World Wide Wheat have agreed to collaborate on the development and commercialization of advanced germplasm and traits in wheat.

Ethiopian scientist Gebisa Ejeta was named the recipient of the World Food Prize for agricultural research.

Syngenta has added to its crop protection portfolio with the acquisition of Circle One Global, Inc.

Yara International will permanently close a Hungarian NPK plant that halted production in October 2008.

Indian company Karuturi Global Limited has launched an agriculture investment project in Ethiopia to develop 300,000 hectares as the country seeks investors.

Agrium plans to build a US $36 million polymer-coated nitrogen plant in Missouri, US.

DuPont has filed a patent-infringement suit against BASF over claims on herbicide tolerant technology.

ADM has partnered with the Kansas Bioscience Authority and the University of Kansas for a nearly US $5 million bioscience research project.