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Syngenta signs up help to boost weedkiller sales 26 Jul 2010
The world's top agrichemicals group licenses an anti-pest product from minnow Plant Health Care to bolster its sagging glyphosate takings |
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Europe's pest-hit farmers lift sowings of GM corn 2 Sep 2011
Losses to corn borer moths persuade more growers to plant biotech seed. But overall plantings are still low - and of GM potatoes, falling |
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Boss heralds staff changes at troubled Nufarm 28 Sep 2010
Doug Rathbone says the troubled sprays group is taking steps to beef up treasury functions, but bats away a question over his own future |
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Syngenta flags buybacks as outlook improves 5 Feb 2010
The seeds and sprays giant says it will return $750m to investors, as it flags a pick-up in emerging markets and soaring sales of GM corn seed |
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Opinion: Nufarm deal doubts look overdone 29 Sep 2009
Some doubts over Sinochem's approach are justified. But investors may be being overcautious, leaving them in danger of missing a trick |
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Brazil eyes record coffee and soybean harvests 7 Jan 2010
Government agency Conab lifts its hopes for the newly-started soybean harvest, and says the 2010-11 coffee crop may approach 49m bags |
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Syngenta flags further rises in seed, spray prices 8 Feb 2012
The farm sprays giant targets "sustained sales growth", after a year in which crop resistance to glyphosates boosts demand for alternatives |
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Agrium and CNH shares lifted most by US corn shock 12 Oct 2010
Agrium shares take to 13% gains since the US cut corn estimates, raising grain prices and farm profit prospects. Meat company stock has tumbled |
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Sinochem makes last-minute cut to Nufarm bid 22 Dec 2009
Nufarm says it will "review all options" after its Chinese suitor knocks Aus$218m from its bid after five months of talks |
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Opinion: Sinochem-Nufarm deal looks tricky 27 Jul 2009
The tie-up looks a lot more complicated than other recent foreign purchases in Australia. Not least, it involves Nufarm boss Doug Rathbone |
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MA backs signs of end to agrichemicals downturn 8 Aug 2011
MA Industries follows Syngenta in revealing rising prices of sprays, after two years of decline. The group's shares buck a tumbling market |
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Opinion: Europe needs to get a grip over GM 21 Aug 2009
Brussels' muddle-through approach to genetically modified crops is not good enough now they are no longer a minority US sport. By Mike Verdin |
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