BASF

BASF Agricultural Solutions North America will donate $50,000 to The Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund's Seed A Legacy pollinator habitat program.  The donation is part of BASF's annual Living Acres #MonarchChallenge initiative. The Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund will use BASF's donation to expand its Seed A Legacy pollinator habitat program with the goal of restoring high-quality pollinator habitat

Earning reports topped headlines on Wall Street this week, and agriculture businesses seem to be doing well. Syngenta reported first-quarter sales of $7.1 billion, up 20% year over year. BASF reported first-quarter sales were up 16 percent, to 19 ...

BASF's new insecticide Teraxxa, has been identified to manage wireworm populations and could be available as soon as this spring. WSU Extension educator, Dale Whaley, said wireworms are the amateur stage, the larva form, of click beetles that live in the soil. "They can live i ...

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler voiced disappointment in a court decision to vacate registrations for three dicamba herbicides. Wheeler said of the ruling, "The 2020 growing season is well underway, and this creates an undue burden for our first conservationists – farmers." ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated the registrations of three Dicamba-based herbicides, one each from BASF, Corteva, and Bayer. Allison Crittenden, director of Congressional Relations with the American Farm Bureau, says these kinds of court decisions often hit farmers at the worst possible times ...

Over the weekend, a seven member jury awarded a Missouri peach farmer $265 million in a case against Bayer and BASF.  Bill Bader alleges the herbicide Dicamba ruined thousands of his trees back in 2015 and 2016, when the chemical drifted from a neighboring cotton field.  ...

The National Wheat Foundation officially began accepting applications for the Jerry Minore Scholarship.  The scholarship honors students pursuing a career in Ag, and is open to both high school and college students for the 2020-2021 academic year.  ...

The National Wheat Foundation officially began accepting applications for the Jerry Minore Scholarship.  The scholarship honors students pursuing a career in Ag, and is open to both high school and college students for the 2020-2021 academic year.   ...

As a result of the mega-merger between Bayer and Monsanto, BASF officials say they were a big winner by acquiring more than $9 billion in assets Bayer was required to divest.  BASF vice president of Ag solutions, Scott Kay, said there will be a few noticeable differences.  ...

It’s taken months of divesting, negotiating, and waiting, but Bayer and Monsanto will complete their merger.  An AgWeb.com article notes German-based Bayer can now officially begin integrating Monsanto after Bayer divested itself of certain Crop Science businesses in a sale to BASF.  The name Mons...