Reading Time: < 1 minute Pesticide manufacturers Syngenta and Corteva must face a lawsuit from the state of Arkansas accusing them of suppressing competition for pesticide sales and keeping prices artificially high, a federal judge has ruled.
Syngenta, Corteva must face Arkansas lawsuit over pesticide programs
Syngenta, Corteva must face part of U.S. farmers’ antitrust lawsuit over pesticide prices
Reading Time: < 1 minute Pesticide manufacturers Syngenta and Corteva must face parts of a class action accusing the agricultural industry giants of using a loyalty program to stymie competition with rivals and keep prices artificially high for farmers, a federal judge in North Carolina has ruled.
In the combine
Syngenta leader Jeff Rowe talks about being prepared for leadership and the importance of listening to people
Reading Time: 3 minutes Jeff Rowe, CEO of the Syngenta Group, doesn’t often get home to his farm near Princeton, Illinois. He’s usually operating from his base in Basel, Switzerland, instead. But when he does get back to the Midwest, you might catch up to him running a planter in the spring or the combine in the fall, just […] Read more
McDonald’s to pay U.S. farmers for feed efficient Enogen corn use
The company is partnering with Syngenta to pay some farmers who use corn with the trait
Reading Time: 2 minutes A partnership between McDonald’s and Syngenta in the United States will pay beef producers to use Enogen corn, which will improve the feed efficiency of cattle and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Syngenta working with McDonald’s to reduce gas emissions from cows
Reading Time: < 1 minute Agrochemicals and seeds company Syngenta is working with fast food giant McDonald's Corp and one of its meat suppliers to supply a type of corn which it says will reduce the gaseous emissions from cattle.
Bayer, others defeat US farmers’ chemical price-fixing lawsuit
Reading Time: < 1 minute A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing agriculture giants Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta and others of conspiring with wholesalers and retail outlets to fix prices for seeds and crop protection chemicals, causing farmers to pay higher prices
Brazil sues Syngenta for alleged environmental damage
Reading Time: 2 minutes Brazil's environmental agency IBAMA has sued Syngenta alleging the chemicals company caused "environmental damage" by producing and selling pesticides using much higher concentrations of a carcinogen than allowed under law, according to court documents seen by Reuters.
Beijing nudged Syngenta to withdraw $9 billion Shanghai IPO on market weakness, sources say
China's securities watchdog's tighter scrutiny of IPOs has led some companies to scrap plans, move offshore
Reading Time: 3 minutes Chinese authorities nudged Swiss agrichemicals and seeds group Syngenta to withdraw its application for a long-delayed $9 billion IPO in Shanghai on concerns about the impact a sizeable new offering would have on a volatile market, four people said.
China expands list of GM soybean, corn variety approvals
Reading Time: < 1 minute China has approved 27 genetically modified corn seed varieties and 3 GM soybean varieties, expanding its list of approvals as it aims to increase the development and planting of high-yielding crops.
US allows farmers to use existing supplies of dicamba weedkillers
An Arizona court decision vacated the EPA's registration of dicamba-based herbicides
Reading Time: 2 minutes The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that farmers can use some existing supplies of herbicides based on the chemical dicamba, despite a federal court ruling last week that halted sprayings.
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