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Crops, Equipment

Another digital option for farmers

Precision Farming: Corteva’s Granular Insights platform can implement data as far back as 2016

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Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s yet another option in the growing list of options for precision farming software. Introduced in 2019, Corteva’s Granular Insights is billed as a platform to help growers scout their fields and find in-season problems faster. It has expanded since and can now upload planting and harvest data, use satellite and aerial imagery and provide […] Read more
Bayer’s Laudis is registered for use in corn in Eastern Canada and is expected to be available in Western Canada in time for seeding season.
Crops

The latest in herbicides and fungicides for 2022

More active ingredient combinations offered to control resistant weed biotypes

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Reading Time: 5 minutes As weeds and diseases continue to evolve and overcome the active ingredients and modes of action of different herbicides and fungicides, the chemical industry must evolve to keep pace. The research and development challenges are considerable — it can take more than 10 years to bring a new product to market, and cost nearly $300 […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Reuters

Corteva CEO bullish on grain, oilseed prices for 2022

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — Corteva expects prices for grains and oilseeds to remain high this year on record demand levels, its CEO said Thursday, following the insecticide and seed company’s upbeat sales outlook a day earlier. Global agriculture demand and prices for crops picked up pace in the fourth quarter of 2021, thanks to economies reopening and […] Read more
File photo of emerging durum south of Griffin, Sask. on May 31, 2019. (Leeann Minogue photo)
Crops, Weather

BASF warns on seeding choices for drought-hit imi-treated fields

Steer clear of non-Clearfield canola, durum, canary seed in rotations, company says

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Updated, Sept. 22 — The maker of Odyssey, Solo and Viper is warning grain growers whose fields were excessively dry in 2021 that those herbicides may not break down soon enough in those soils to allow certain seeding choices in 2022. BASF Canada on Monday issued an “urgent notice to growers” in which the company […] Read more
File photo of a canola crop south of Ethelton, Sask. in 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Weather

Nexera canola seed to come with heat blast insurance

Corteva's 'Heat Advantage' provides coverage on seed purchased by Oct. 29

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Farmers can’t prevent canola flowers from aborting in hot weather resulting in lower yields, but one seed company is providing some insurance against it — as part of the price of the seed. Brevant’s Nexera canola seed comes with a “a first-of-its-kind” insurance policy worth up to $100 an acre to offset yield losses due […] Read more
“It was easy to do because the technology was already there.” – Bryce Eger, president of Corteva Canada.
Guide Business, News

Corteva turns two

Company manages through pandemic while building old and new brands

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The emergence of Corteva two years ago from the merger of Dow Agrosciences and DuPont put a new player on the agriculture stage — a company focused on agriculture that had to merge different cultures and product brands. Corteva recently turned two and Bryce Eger, president of Corteva Canada, talked about the evolution of the company and […] Read more
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Markets, Reuters

Corteva launches Brazil biotech soy, tackles Bayer head-on

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Sao Paulo | Reuters – Corteva Agriscience said on Aug. 9 it will start selling biotech soybean seeds in Brazil, as it seeks to bolster its presence in the world’s largest producer of the oilseed and tackle German rival Bayer AG. Corteva said its Enlist soybean seeds can resist three weed killers including glyphosate, ammonium […] Read more
The logo and trading info for Corteva Agriscience displayed on the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Photo: Reuters/Brendan McDermid
Reuters

Corteva lifts sales forecast on strong demand for crop protection products, seeds

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters – Corteva Inc on Thursday raised its net sales forecast for the year after strong demand for crop protection products such as herbicides and insecticides helped the agricultural company beat estimates for the second quarter. Corteva also announced a new $1.5 billion share repurchase program, in addition to a $1 billion buyback announced in 2019, […] Read more
Soybean fields are inspected in a University of Wisconsin research trial on dicamba drift at Arlington, Wisc. on Aug. 2, 2018. (File photo: Reuters/Tom Polansek)
Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

Bayer, Corteva in ‘two-dog battle’ over U.S. soy market

Companies' GM soybeans jockey for market share

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Bayer is launching a new genetically modified soybean in the United States, striking back against rival Corteva in a bid to retain its dominant position supplying seeds to the $40 billion U.S. soy industry. Billions of dollars are on the table for companies producing a growing variety of seeds for soybeans, […] Read more
The logo and trading info for Corteva Agriscience displayed on the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Photo: Reuters/Brendan McDermid
Crops, Reuters

Investor nominates directors for Corteva, aims to oust CEO

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Activist investor Starboard Value LP said on Thursday it has nominated eight directors to the board of Corteva, seeking to oust its chief executive officer and take control of the pesticide and seed maker. Starboard, in its letter to Corteva’s chairman, said it had identified someone new for the top job, but declined […] Read more

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