North America Seed News
- July 2023: BASF expanded its Xitavo soybean seed portfolio with the addition of its 11 new high-yielding varieties for the 2024 growing season, featuring the Enlist E3 technology to combat difficult weeds.
- June 2023: Syngenta opened a new R&D facility in Northern Illinois, United States, which provides opportunities for regenerative agriculture practices through farmer collaboration.
- June 2023: Syngenta Seeds launched a new conventional soybean brand, "Silverline," into the Canadian market. This brand offers high-protein soybeans and NK-treated soybean varieties.
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March 2022: Corteva introduced the Inzent trait sorghum variety under the Pioneer brand. The variety controls yield-depleting annual grasses such as foxtail, barnyard grass, and panicum.
March 2023: PGG Wrightson Seeds, a subsidiary of DLF, has successfully developed the new GT07 phalaris variety. This variety exhibits greater persistence and market potential, particularly under Australia's changing climate conditions. The development of GT07 was made possible through collaboration with CSIRO's breeding program.
July 2022: Corteva Agriscience introduced Bovalta BMR (brown midrib) corn silage product designed to meet the highest standards for yield and milk production.
- September 2023: Richel Group is in a three-year, exclusive strategic partnership with Pure Harvest Smart Farms to increase its efficiency in designing, manufacturing, and building high-tech greenhouses in challenging climates and distant regions, including the Middle East and Asia.
- June 2023: Certhon and Living Greens Farm announced a strategic partnership to develop further and globally expand Living Greens Farm’s disruptive aeroponic growing technology. Certhon would bring its technological expertise and global network to this partnership to create and help market aeroponics technology outside North America.
- February 2023: Heliospectra AB (publ) expanded its product portfolio and MITRA platform with MITRA Flex, the market’s first wirelessly controlled flexible far-red light.
- April 2023: Husqvarna launched T542i XP® and 542i XP®, which the company claims to be the world's first battery chainsaws with a clutch, offering a kick-start of energy at the beginning of every cut and the familiar feel of gas-powered counterparts
- May 2023: Robert Bosch GmbH launched a new advanced cordless chainsaw under the AdvancedChain 36V-35-40 brand.
- September 2022: Bioceres, an Argentina seed technology collaborated with Syngenta to develop and market its biological seed treatment solutions globally.
- June 2022: HELM Argentina and Protergium launched Innobio Protergium Terra, a biological seed treatment for wheat and barley composed of a microbial consortium in the country.
- January 2023: Nouryon, a global leader in specialty chemicals, acquired ADOB, a prominent supplier of chelated micronutrients, fertilizers, and other specialized agricultural solutions in Poland. This strategic move enhances Nouryon's diverse crop nutrition portfolio and underscores its unwavering commitment to the agriculture and food sector. The acquisition enables the company to broaden its range of services and products for industry customers.
- March 2022: The Haifa Group acquired Horticoop Andina, a specialized wholesaler of agricultural nutritional products based in Quito, Ecuador. This acquisition allowed Haifa to expand its presence in Ecuador and the wider Latin American market, further solidifying its position as a global leader in advanced plant nutrition.
- December 2021: Nouryon expanded its office and research center in Mumbai, India, doubling its office space. This expansion is aimed at better serving local customers and supporting long-term growth initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region.
- April 2024: Adama launched Sonavio, a unique PPO herbicide (inhibiting the enzyme protoporphyrinogen oxidase), to use in additional vegetables based on the proprietary active ingredient Bifenox in Italy.
- September 2022: John Deere has launched its 'see and spray' technology on one of the new sprayers released at the Farm Progress Show. The machine combines targeted spray technology with a conventional broadcast system to offer growers options throughout the season and it is the first green-on-green targeted spray technology to be commercialized by the company.
- June 2022: Bosch BASF Smart Farming GmbH, the joint venture between Bosch and BASF Digital Farming, has made a commercial sales collaboration for its Smart Spraying solution with Stara to create a line for the Imperador 4000 Eco Spray smart sprayer, following successful product trials in Brazil which enables to bring in the market with innovative Smart Spraying solution in Latin America.
- September 2022: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) has initiated to farm white leg shrimp project as an important step to boost food production, availability, and sustainability and also aims to farm fish in desert areas and improve aquaculture operations.
- March 2022: Raha, a new tech-driven e-commerce platform, has announced that its app is now available on cell phones and that it has officially started in Kuwait in March 2022. Fully automated e-grocery platform with a wide selection of goods, fresh vegetables, fresh meat, and household necessities. It also houses Kuwait's first completely automated robotics fulfillment facility, as well as one of the first of its sort in the world to include a chilled warehouse. Raha will provide fish of various varieties as part of its whole logistical cycle, from sourcing to last-mile delivery.
