Bayer CropScience and KeyGene (Wageningen, the Netherlands) announced that they have entered into a multi-year agreement to improve traits in a number of major agricultural crops.

Pollen Beetle Predictor is now showing that migration has started throughout GB and that good migration conditions are prevailing across the South East, East Anglia and Lincolnshire.

Bayer CropScience’s entry into the oilseed rape seed business will be the focal point of the firm’s stand at Cereals 2013.

Already the world’s most successful hybrid oilseed rape seeds business, Bayer CropScience will be showing how its significant investment into breeding for the British and European markets will provide growers with top-class varieties in future years.

In particular, the focus will be on explaining the breeding technology the team of breeders will be using to bring advances to British growers.

Bayer CropScience and Syngenta, today unveiled an action plan to unlock the EU stalemate on bee health. This follows the failure of the European Commission to reach agreement with Member States on an appropriate response to EFSA’s report on the theoretical risk to bee health from neonicotinoid crop protection products.

Mounting spring workloads may tempt sprayer operators to rush herbicide sprays but compromising timing or application quality could result in sub-optimal control.

In a difficult growing season beset with torrential rain, low temperatures and barely a sight of the sun, 45 growers up and down the country valiantly carried out 58 split field trials at the T2 (flag leaf) spray timing to compare 1.0 L/ha Aviator²³⁵_Xpro with their best farm standard

Bayer CropScience is disappointed with the European Commission’s draconian proposal to suspend all uses of neonicotinoids products in crops attractive to bees for two years. The company believes that the Commission’s overly conservative interpretation of the precautionary principle is a missed opportunity to achieve a fair and proportional solution.