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Investors shun Bayer stock over US pesticide ruling

Aug 13, 2018 (AFP)

The stock had plunged 11.5 percent to 82.60 euros ($94.47) by midday (1000 GMT), lopping around $10 billion off its market value. A California jury on Friday aw...

Trump's trade beef with China may backfire on meat

Aug 12, 2018 (AFP)

Beijing's retaliatory tariffs on US pork and beef are making them prohibitively expensive and Chinese importers are simply turning to other sources, a trend exp...

Monsanto owners call weed killer 'safe' after jury orders big payout

Aug 11, 2018 (AFP)

While observers predicted thousands of potential future claims against the company in the wake of Monsanto's defeat, Bayer -- which recently acquired the US gia...

US jury orders Monsanto to pay $290mn to cancer patient over weed killer

Aug 11, 2018 (AFP)

Jurors unanimously found that Monsanto -- which vowed to appeal -- acted with "malice" and that its weed killers Roundup and the professional grade version Rang...

Blocking sunlight to cool Earth won't reduce crop damage from global warming

Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)

By analyzing the past effects of Earth-cooling volcanic eruptions, and the response of crops to changes in sunlight, the team concluded that any improvements in...

New research collection targets insect pests of pulse crops

Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)

Pulse crop growers facing pest management challenges will soon have a new set of resources to tap into with the July issue of the Annals of the Entomological So...

As temperatures rise, Earth's soil is 'breathing' more heavily

Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)

Blame microbes and how they react to warmer temperatures. Their food of choice - nature's detritus like dead leaves and fallen trees - contains carbon. When bac...

The American diet is unsustainable, study shows

Aug 09, 2018 (UPI)

According to new research, if the rest of the world adhered to the United States Department of Agriculture's dietary guidelines, it would require another giga-h...

Brazil wrestles with ban of controversial weed killer

Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)

A federal judge in the capital Brasilia last week ruled that "licenses for all products" with the chemical must be suspended within 30 days. Also in the ban are...

Dying groundskeeper battles chemical giant Monsanto

Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)

"I will fight until my last breath," Johnson, a 46-year-old former school groundskeeper, said while testifying at a potentially history-making civil trial. Juro...

Jurors mull 'day of reckoning' in Roundup cancer trial

Aug 08, 2018 (AFP)

"Today is their day of reckoning," attorney Brent Wisner told jurors as he urged them to impose a penalty of more than $400 million on Monsanto for hiding the c...

Archeological plant remains point to southwest Amazonia as crop domestication center

Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)

Genetic analysis of plant species has long pointed to the lowlands of southwest Amazonia as a key region in the early history of plant domestication in the Amer...

Heat brings relief for French vineyards

Aug 07, 2018 (AFP)

"Grape vines like the sun," said Bernard Farges, president of the wine grower's association for the Bordeaux and Bordeaux Superieur appellations. "It rained a l...

Nine die of pesticide poisoning in Peru

Aug 07, 2018 (AFP)

They were among 50 villagers who ended up hospitalized, including four in "seriously unstable condition" and 21 patients in critical condition, the Emergency Se...

Cultivated areas halve in Iraq as drought tightens grip

Aug 04, 2018 (AFP)

"If we take the cultivated area for 2018, it is down 50 percent compared to 2017", Deputy Agriculture Minister Mahdi al-Qaisi told AFP. In an unprecedented move...

Starbucks and Alibaba join forces as China coffee war brews

Aug 02, 2018 (AFP)

The partnership was announced as Seattle-based Starbucks faces an aggressive challenge from Chinese upstart Luckin Coffee, which has expanded rapidly on a strat...

Deadly heatwaves threaten China's northern breadbasket

Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)

Soaring temperatures combined with high humidity -- made worse by the region's dense irrigation network -- means the China's breadbasket faces "the greatest ris...

To keep more carbon on the ground, halting farmland expansion is key

Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers reporting in Current Biology on July 26 say that, based on their extensive studies of agricultural operations in the humid tropics of Ghana, the dry...

Record drought grips Germany's breadbasket

Jul 29, 2018 (AFP)

As the blazing sun beats down, combine harvesters working the normally fertile breadbasket of Saxony-Anhalt in former communist East Germany kick up giant cloud...

Cuba to study whether climate change is hurting sugar harvests

Jul 28, 2018 (AFP)

The Caribbean island, once the world's leading sugar producer, is suffering through a years-long decline in production even as its socialist leaders struggle to...