CATCH THE BUZZ – Bayer Launches Blue Ribbon Beekeepers Pollinator Week.
The company announced Blue Ribbon Beekeepers to recognize the outstanding achievements of young people who have made a positive impact on their communities through…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bayer Forms Three-Pronged Strategy, Seed Traits, Chemicals, and Digital Agriculture from Monsanto.
By: Gil Gullickson Bayer started integrating Monsanto roughly a month ago after buying it earlier this year. So what’s happened so far? Bayer CropScience executives…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Technology Makes Commercial Beekeeping More Efficient, Profitable
In an effort to provide beekeepers with a more effective and comprehensive management system, two Healthy Hives 2020 grant recipients recently announced a new…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Monsanto Name Goes, But By Any Name, It Will Be The World’s Largest Seed And Ag-Chemical Company.
the two-way BREAKING NEWS FROM NPR, Dan Charles Originally, it was just a name — Olga Monsanto’s name, to be precise. Around the turn…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Efforts to Create Pesticides that are Not Toxic to Bees Have Been Boosted by a Scientific Breakthrough.
A joint study by the University of Exeter, Rothamsted Research and Bayer AG has discovered the enzymes in honey bees and bumblebees that determine…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bayer Reaches Deal With U.S. for Approval to Buy Monsanto.
By: Karan Nagarkatti, Diane Bartz and Tom Polansek April 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department will allow German drugs and pesticides group Bayer…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Key U.S. Panel Sees No National Security Barriers to Bayer Takeover of Monsanto.
Chuck Abbott, Successful Farming A special review panel of U.S. officials “has concluded there are no unresolved national security concerns” in the proposed purchase…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Sivanto Insecticide Safe For Bees, Hard On Pests, Good For Crops.
Jack Boyne A recent CATCH THE BUZZ blog about Bayer’s new insecticide product Sivanto® Prime (flupyradifurone) discussed the decision by officials in Kentucky to…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – In The Spirit Of True National Pollinator Week Celebration, Bayer Announced The First Round Of Organizations That Will Receive Funding To Establish Forage For Pollinators Across The Nation.
BECAUSE ALL THE POLLINATOR BUZZ’S DIDN’T FIT INTO POLLINATOR WEEK Bayer Feed a Bee program celebrates National Pollinator Week by kicking off initiative…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Neonicotinoid studies submitted by chemical companies to European regulators will now be open to scrutiny.
Safety tests submitted to European regulators by chemical companies will have to be made public, following a landmark ruling by the European Court of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bayer and Monsanto and CRISPR. Do Bees Have Any Role In Their Future?
Emma Cowan CRISPR (Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats) Cas-9 is the most high profile gene-editing tool today and a technique that’s far more palatable…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Bayer increases Monsanto offer and provides certainty on financing and regulatory matters. But what will happen to the bees?
Monsanto all-cash offer increased to USD 125 per share on July 1 after additional information received in private discussions / Bayer has comprehensively addressed…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bayer Revises Position to Propose Extra Protections for Bees from Pesticides
The pharmaceutical giant had initially accused the EPA of overstimating the impact of pesticide on pollinators but now admits report is ‘scientifically sound’ Oliver…
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