Sentences with phrase «of crop protection»

Our organics are perfectly suited for consumers who prefer foods grown naturally without the assistance of crop protection products.

«Since plant immunisation by BABA is long - lasting, primed crops would require fewer applications of fungicides, thereby increasing sustainability of crop protection.

Even when studying agriculture in South Africa, he had been attracted by the science of crop protection, and his Ph.D. research on electron transport in photosynthesis was highly relevant to the industry: «Herbicides are specifically developed to work against the photosynthetic apparatus,» he explains.

CropLife America, which represents pesticide manufacturers, said in a statement to EHN that the EPA's review of fungicides is «rigorous» and that «new application technologies by farmers will serve to further minimize any potential environmental impacts of crop protection products.»

«If you talk to farmers, particularly in northern Europe, they're very concerned about the limited range of crop protection chemicals that they have available to them because of concerns about the broader environmental effects,» says Baulcombe.

Our organics are perfectly suited for consumers who prefer foods grown naturally without the assistance of crop protection products.

DuPont to Divest a Portion of Its Crop Protection Business and Acquire FMC's Health & Nutrition Business; Transaction Marks Meaningful Step Forward in Proposed DuPont and Dow Merger; Maintains Significant Strategic Value Creation Potential of Merger Transaction; Merger with Dow Now Expected to Close Between August 1 and September 1

Not exact matches

• Ardian SAS is considering selling ESIM Chemicals, an Austria - based provider of agricultural and crop protection chemicals.

Despite a wet and late spring throughout much of North America, Agrium, North America's largest seller of farm products, reported the strongest earnings in its 80 - year history amid surging demand for its nutrients, crop protection chemicals and seeds.

It's a major factor behind China's biggest - ever foreign corporate acquisition: ChemChina's planned takeover, for $ 43 billion in cash, of Syngenta (syt), the Swiss - based world leader in advanced insecticides, herbicides, and other crop - protection products and the No. 3 producer of seeds.

Divestments by the parties involved in each of the three mega-mergers — Dow - DuPont, ChemChina - Syngenta and Bayer - Monsanto — will likely maintain significant competition in the seed and crop protection markets — and should ease price increase concerns, according to Secor.

Changes in the seed and crop protection landscape reinforce retailers» pursuit of lower costs and lasting relevance.»

The back page then contains a call for three «Rogation Days,» or times of prayer and procession «for protection against calamities, such as storms, pestilence, famine, and war, and for God's blessing upon our crops.»

Last month Nufarm wrapped up its $ 800m acquisition of more than 50 crop protection formulations and more than 260 registrations for use in European markets, bought from chemical rivals FMC and Adama.

DowDuPont ™ (NYSE: DWDP) today announced that DuPont has completed its acquisition of FMC Corporation's Health & Nutrition business (FMC H&N), except for the Omega - 3 business, and its divestment to FMC of a portion of DuPont's Crop Protection business.

DowDuPont ™ today announced that DuPont has completed its acquisition of FMC Corporation's Health & Nutrition business, except for the Omega - 3 business, and its divestment to FMC of a portion of DuPont's Crop Protection business.

Crop protection company Nufarm has forecast an underlying profit of $ 110 million to $ 116 million for the 12 months to July 31, slightly higher than analyst forecasts.

The local cultivation practices currently followed for conventional rice varieties, including the application of fertilizer, crop protection products, and labor, are directly applicable to the cultivation of those varieties containing the GR2E nutritional trait.

The «Coffee Growing — Environmental Leadership» section covers water body protection, including criteria for width and type of vegetated buffer zones along permanent and seasonal water bodies, and use of chemicals or waste storage near water bodies; protection of soil resources, including measures to control and prevent erosion and use of organic mulches and cover crops; conserving biodiversity, including maintaining a shade canopy, protecting wildlife, and establishment of conservation areas; and environmental management, including pest and disease control.

The proposed criteria 2.5 (agroforestry system for all crops) and 2.6 (protection of big trees) of the next Sustainable Agriculture Standard provide an effective framework for combining biodiversity protection on coffee farms with productivity targets.

Nufarm chief executive Greg Hunt says the crop protection company has increased firepower in key segments of the European market after compl...

Research at the Azienda Agraria Sperimentale Stuard includes techniques of fertilization, crop rotation, integrated pest management, protection and balance of nutrients in the soil as well as organic cultivation.

In 2001 DuPont Crop Protection, part of the company's Agriculture and Nutrition Business, manufactured 40 products and maintained operations in 40 countries around the world.

Crop insurance provides growers with protection against crop production losses caused by drought, hail, excessive moisture, earthquake, fire, wildlife, failure of irrigation water supply or insects and plant disease (unless control measures have been insufficiently or improperly appliCrop insurance provides growers with protection against crop production losses caused by drought, hail, excessive moisture, earthquake, fire, wildlife, failure of irrigation water supply or insects and plant disease (unless control measures have been insufficiently or improperly applicrop production losses caused by drought, hail, excessive moisture, earthquake, fire, wildlife, failure of irrigation water supply or insects and plant disease (unless control measures have been insufficiently or improperly applied).

Biomass is a term that covers different types of organic material that can be processed and burned to produce energy, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and can include materials like wood chips, agricultural crops, and sewage.

Because of its appeal to a variety of insects, conventional cotton gets treated with pesticides more than any other crop except coffee.The pesticides used, cyanide, dicofol, naled, propargite and trifluralin, are all known to cause cancer, and have been classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as the most dangerous pesticides.

And innovation in crop protection has meant they continue to be able to protect their crops from pests, weeds and diseases while the amount of pesticides applied has decreased by 71 % from 1990.

Testing will also provide protection to the Department, growers and researchers that crops meet the acceptable THC level of 0.3 percent or below.

In particular, researchers analyzed 21 years of data from Maryland cornfields and suggest that rising temperatures might help corn earworms (Helicoverpa zea) develop resistance faster to a widespread genetically built - in crop protection.

Upon graduating in 1993 with a Ph.D. in entomology with an emphasis on integrated crop protection, Chiasson won a postdoctoral industrial fellowship from the National Sciences and Engineering Rearch Council of Canada to work at a Quebec - based bioagricultural company that specializes in pesticide research and development.

In a further setback to reducing U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the U.S. government's «social cost» of carbon, or the estimated cost of sea - level rise, lower crop yields, and other climate - change related economic damages, from $ 42 per ton by 2020 to a low of $ 1 per ton.

This fresh understanding of the DNA of the black Sigatoka fungus is also providing new information that is useful in the development of more effective and, hopefully, less environmentally unfriendly crop protection products.

Although relatively new, they have become widely used because they are taken up by all parts of a plant, giving comprehensive protection against crop pests.

Kongming Wu, director of the Institute for Plant Protection at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing said, «This review paper will be very helpful for understanding insect resistance in agricultural systems and improving strategies to sustain the effectiveness of Bt crops.»

Corn yields with today's hybrids do have the potential to increase with the application of protection chemicals and by making crop nutrients more plant - available,» she said.

To produce the supply, tropical countries have been converting their forests for crop and livestock production, leading to a loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration, flood protection or pollination, while increasing carbon dioxide emissions.

This discovery will help to develop crop plants that feature enhanced protection against this type of parasites.

«DDT resistance in Africa as well as several other parts of the world has been acquired because of massive use of these insecticides for crop protection,» Guillet says.

«A mechanistic understanding of how plants resist or overcome pathogen attack is crucial to develop new strategies for crop protection.»

Thus, this study opens new opportunities for developing novel strategies for crop protection against pathogenic fungi, as well as for the development of more specific fungicides

Now a research team led by Sean Cutler, a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside, has found a new drought - protecting chemical that shows high potential for becoming a powerful tool for crop protection in the new world of extreme weather.

«Crop protection products such as fungicides help farmers grow quality crops free of disease and achieve better yields, which keeps prices low for consumers,» said Mike Leggett, senior director of environmental policy at CropLife America.

The White House announced last July that it would revise the nearly 24 - year - old framework for how companies should clear agricultural biotech products, such as genetically modified (GM) crops and animals, with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Full crop protection from an insect pest by expression of long double - stranded RNAs in plastids

To avoid that, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandated that farmers plant part of their acreage with nonmodified crops.

Specifically, smaller stands of trees — roughly the size of a few football fields — situated throughout crop fields provided better levels of beetle protection than the much larger forest preserves set on the outskirts of farms.

Although their research has been performed in a weed called «Arabidopsis thaliana», the work horse of plant geneticists, the team is confident that their discovery can be used for the protection of crops from their enemies.

BABA has long been known for its protective effects against devastating plant diseases, such as potato blight, but has so far not been used widely in crop protection because of undesirable side effects.

«By contrast, priming of multi-genic immunity by BABA is difficult to break, thus offering more durable crop protection.»

French Green MEP José Bové, an ex-farmer well - known for his destruction of a McDonald's franchise in the south of France and the uprooting of GM crops in Brazil, said that the only protection farmers can have is for a complete ban on GMOs in Europe.