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...Disruptions to farm sales have also led to a shortening of supply chains....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 5 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...“You have to keep watering the garden, seed every spring and harvest every fall, and notice the jungle is encroaching....
...She waves and smiles as she bypasses the hostess stand at Gather, an organic, farm-to-table restaurant in Berkeley....
...DowDuPont, which counts agrochemicals and seeds as businesses alongside its plastics and chemicals units, was off 1.1 per cent....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on June 26, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The company struggled to deliver much top-line growth, reporting a $181m drop in corn seed sales, which account for 54 per cent of total group revenue....
...Cofco already hived off its sorghum seeds portfolio from the seeds unit in May, selling the operations to Chromatin, a US sorghum seed group....
...63 per cent of the global seed market....
...Organic farms and so-called plant factories are becoming hothouses for innovation. International investors are keen to water the seeds....
...Seed company Monsanto dropped after US antitrust regulators sued to block Deere, the farm equipment maker, from buying its precision planting unit....
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...Seed and fertiliser prices have been relatively stable in recent years, leaving equipment as the one significant cost farmers can control....
...Farmers must also sign “stewardship agreements” – acknowledging that the corn is not for export – and follow protocols to prevent it being mixed with other types, such as planting border rows and cleaning farm...
...Companies including ADM and Dreyfus have seen corn shipments turned away at Chinese ports in recent months over concerns they contained unapproved genetically modified seeds....
...Cargill’s agriculture services business, which buys farmers’ grain and sells them seeds, fertiliser and insurance, also suffered because of the drought....
...The figures, which included a revision upwards to February’s reading, failed to bolster bulls who were searching for further impetus to bid stocks higher ahead of the labour department’s non-farm payrolls...
...“Monsanto’s business is strongly aligned with Ukraine’s farm industry and government objectives for productivity and exports – to increase grains production [from a current 40-50 million tons] to 80-100...
...It is one of the top producers and exporters of sunflower seed and oil, barley, wheat and corn....
...Dhanin’s father, Ek Chor, emigrated to Thailand with his brother, Siew Whooy, and established CP in 1921 as an agricultural seed shop....
...Following his arrival in New York City in 1994 to study English, he hankered after country life so he took a job on a farm in upstate New York....
...In 2008 – after graduating from Harvard – she launched Wildfire, helped by a $250,000 award from Facebook’s fbFund, a seed fund for developers and entrepreneurs....
...a contingency plan which includes providing seeds and more electricity to farmers and improving water supplies, the WSJ reports....
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