Land O’Lakes Inc. has created a partnership with a company from South Africa. Their new alliance with Villa Crop Protection creates a complimentary portfolio that will allow them to bring productivity-enhancing crop input products and services to their customers. Land O’Lakes has recently accelerated their growth in global markets and this is their first investment in Africa. Land O’Lakes now … Read More
Syngenta Announces Licensing Agreement
Syngenta has recently announced a new licensing agreement with two of its collaborators, KWS and Limagrain. The companies plan to expand their joint ventures, AgReliant and Genective, with a 20 year agreement covering AgReliant in North America as well as individual operations abroad. Syngenta will share rights to its corn trait portfolio in return for a $200 million upfront advance … Read More
Syngenta Acquires Ag Connections
Syngenta has announced they are making their 14-year partner a wholly-owned subsidiary. Ag Connections will help the company to accelerate the growth of digital solutions and provide growers with whole-farm management. The collaboration between the two companies will focus on providing farmers with decision-making tools, specifically with the farm management software AgriEdge Excelsior, which integrates products, services, risk management and … Read More
AgJunction Completes Merger with Novariant
AgJunction Inc. and Novariant, Inc. have completed their merger. The merger, previously announced on March 16, 2015, gives AgJunction the intellectual rights to more than 140 patents and makes them a leader in automated steering and machine control technologies. Autosteer is being sought after at the factory level, and now the newly merged company will be able to provide advanced machine automation to … Read More
ResponsibleAg Selects Executive Director
The ResponsibleAg, Inc. Board of Directors announced on Friday the selection of Bill Qualls, CPEA, as the organization’s new Executive Director. Qualls’ responsibilities will include retailer and auditor recruiting, monitoring an effective quality assurance program, and advising the Board on opportunities to improve the program. He comes to ResponsibleAg from the Eastman Chemical Company, where he served as Lead Auditor … Read More
Precision Ag Bytes
DuPont has announced that Chair and CEO, Ellen Kullman, will retire from the company effective October 16. Edward Breen, member of the DuPont Board of Directors, will act as Interim Chair and CEO of DuPont at that time. The search has begun to find a permanent replacement. Brookside Agra has expanded its new Agronomy Division. The new unit will be headed … Read More
Clariant Opens Biotech Research Center
A new Group Biotechnology Research Center has been opened near Munich. Clariant, a leader in specialty chemicals, hosted a ceremony in which the key to the facility was symbolically handed over to CEO Hariolf Kottmann and the Head of Clariant’s Group Biotechonology Andre Koltermann. “Alongside the Clariant Innovation Center (CIC) in Frankfurt, the new Clariant Biotech Center (CBC) is another … Read More
Verdesian Focuses on Farmer Profitability
In an effort to proactively strengthen profit-driven technologies and products, Verdesian Life Sciences has expanded its team. Jake Underwood has been hired as the new executive vice president of nutritionals and John “Sam” Wilson, Ph.D. will now be serving in the role of vice president of technology development. “Global agriculture provides a unique challenge because there are so many variables,” … Read More
New VP of North America at New Holland
New Holland is excited to announced the appointment of Bret Lieberman as Vice President of North America. Bret will be based in New Holland and will assume the role of Vice President immediately. Bret has an accomplished resume at CNH Industrial and New Holland spanning 25 years in various roles which will bring a multi-faceted perspective and a passion from … Read More
Trimble Acquires HarvestMark
Trimble announced that it has acquired the assets of HarvestMark®, a provider of food traceability and quality inspection solutions, from YottaMark, Inc. of Redwood City, Calif. HarvestMark is a market leader in delivering insights throughout the fresh food supply chain from farm to fork. Its platform and tools make food data collection efficient, complex information simple to view and prioritize, … Read More