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Marrone Bio Innovations Strengthens Commercial Operations with New Hires – 2/2/2012
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI) today announced the appointment of key personnel to its growing customer-focused team that is expanding the use of the company’s biopesticides throughout the U.S. agricultural market: [Read More]

C/F/P Offers 'The Edge' – 2/2/2012
Cross, Fernandez, & Riley, LLP offer 'The Edge'. [Read More]

Three Syngenta scientists honored by Crop Science Society of America – 10/18/2011
Three Syngenta scientists are being honored this year by the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) for their contributions to crop science research. [Read More]

Marrone Bio Innovations Receives EPA Approval of Next-Generation Broad Spectrum Insecticide – 10/11/2011
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI), a leading global provider of natural products for the agricultural and water treatment markets, today announced that the Environmental Protection Agency has approved its latest product, MBI-203 EP, which will be branded as Grandevo™. It is a broad-spectrum, high-performance natural insecticide for use on agricultural and ornamental crops. MBI-203 is initially being launched in Florida for insects such as citrus psyllid, following its approval yesterday from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. [Read More]

New mini-grant to help Florida teachers use school gardens for education – 8/18/2011
Florida Agriculture in the Classroom will offer a new grants program to help educate Florida’s students about the importance of agriculture. The program will provide 222 $500 mini-grants that must go toward creating or improving a school garden that grows Florida fruits and vegetables. [Read More]

Growing Digital Blog to Help Cultivate Budding Agvocates – 8/17/2011
As a leader in online technologies for more than a decade, Syngenta has developed the Growing Digital blog to help members of the agricultural community grow their business through social media and become agvocates for the industry as a whole. [Read More]

HESCO/Marco Plastics Donates to Florida Citrus Archives – 8/8/2011
On Tuesday, August 8th HESCO CEO Gap Kovach will announce that HESCO and Macro Plastics have jointly granted $10,000 to the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame for the Florida Citrus Archives housed at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, FL. [Read More]

New research highlights long-lasting disease control of next-generation BASF fungicides containing.. – 8/8/2011
BASF discussed research regarding Merivon® fungicide and Priaxor™ fungicide at the American Phytopathological Society (APS) annual conference this week. Merivon and Priaxor both contain the new active ingredient fluxapyroxad, trade name Xemium® fungicide, as well as pyraclostrobin. EPA registration for the products is expected in early 2012. [Read More]

Marrone Bio Innovations Celebrates Fifth Year of Success – 7/29/2011
Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI), a leading provider of effective, natural pest management products for agriculture and water resource management today announced it is celebrating its five year anniversary [Read More]

Florida's Natural Growers Donates $250,000 to Fight Greening – 7/28/2011
The Florida’s Natural Growers Board of Directors voted to donate $250,000 to fight citrus greening, a disease plaguing the Florida Citrus industry. [Read More]

RESEARCH SHOWS BOOMING AGRICULTURAL LAND VALUES ARE NOT IN A BUBBLE – 7/6/2011
Agriculture land prices in the U.S. have increased steadily over the last decade, leading experts and landowners to question whether the high values are sustainable. [Read More]

Growers can save $50 per gallon on Headline® fungicide from BASF – 4/21/2011
Growers who use Headline® fungicide may qualify to save $50 per gallon on purchases through BASF authorized retailers made by Aug. 15. [Read More]

Syngenta Accepts Student Scholarship Applications to Promote Florida Agriculture – 4/19/2011
Continuing its investment in the future of agriculture, Syngenta is supporting the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association’s (FFVA) education scholarship. [Read More]

Micromite 80WGS Label Now Allows Split Applications – 4/13/2011
Chemtura AgroSolutions™, a leading global provider of crop protection solutions and seed enhancements, announced that the Micromite® 80WGS label has been updated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Citrus growers may now apply the full rate of 6.25 oz/A through two 3.125 oz/A sprays to maximize flush coverage and enhance protection from both Asian citrus psyllid and citrus leafminer. [Read More]

Marrone Bio Innovations and Syngenta Crop Protection Sign Distribution Agreement for Regali – 3/22/2011
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Syngenta Assembles Over 178,000 Servings of Potato-based Meals for Malnourished Children – 3/22/2011
More than 500 Syngenta employees, their families and friends, and FFA students gathered together at Syngenta headquarters in Greensboro to pack over 178,000 servings of Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) MannaPack™ Potato meals. MannaPack Potato servings are formulated to prevent starvation in children using dehydrated potatoes, vitamins and minerals. Syngenta sponsored the packing event in celebration of National Ag Week. [Read More]

BASF shares details about discovery and research results of its latest innovation, Xemium® fungicide – 3/2/2011
BASF Crop Protection presented educational information and research results on a new active ingredient, Xemium® fungicide, during the fifth annual “Science Behind” media symposium today. This new chemistry demonstrates strong field test results in disease control in a variety of crops being researched. BASF hopes to introduce products containing this new active ingredient in the United States in 2012. [Read More]

Disease-carrying Asian citrus psyllids find refuge in abandoned groves, UF study shows – 2/17/2011
For years, citrus growers have feared that abandoned groves provided refuge for the Asian citrus psyllid, an invasive insect that transmits citrus greening—now, University of Florida researchers say they were right. [Read More]

Scott Sutton named New President of Chemtura AgroSolutions – 2/14/2011
Chemtura AgroSolutions™, a leading global provider of crop protection solutions and seed enhancements, announced that Scott Sutton will serve as president beginning Feb. 14, 2011. [Read More]