The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it will once again ban the use on food crops of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which has been linked to health problems in children, says Reuters.

Drawing on the strengths of Corteva Agriscience, Brevant offers high-performance corn and soybean genetics, technology and traits exclusively through retailers for 2021 planting.

Though the controversial chemical remains legal to use in the U.S., a handful of states have moved to ban it. Now, a major manufacturer has decided to discontinue manufacturing it in the face of diminishing sales.

South Dakota State University is the first land-grant university to offer a precision agriculture major, a precision agriculture minor and an engineering for precision agriculture minor, as part of their curriculum. Corteva Agriscience is donating $600,000 to help expand facilities for student learning and engagement with precision ag tools.

Granular's AcreValue, an online land intelligence solution for U.S. farmers, landowners and land professionals, has released two new digital tools for farmers, landowners and their business collaborators to research land and to network — Claim My Land and Custom Boundaries.

Corteva Agriscience, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, announced plans for commercial launches of Enlist E3 soybeans in Brazil, Canada and the United States, beginning in 2019. The company also announced plans to expand the launch of Qrome products across the U.S. Corn Belt.

Corteva Agriscience announced Adavelt active as the new brand name for a novel fungicide that will offer farmers curative and protectant disease control of a wide range of pathogens in multiple crops. 

Andy Fordice, category leader for Enlist herbicides, talks about the recent launch of the Enlist weed control system for corn, including the new choline formulation of 2,4-D in Enlist One and Enlist Duo and the addition of Assure II as a tool against grasses and volunteer corn. Fordice also addresses how the Enlist soybean system gives no-tillers a tool to control tough weeds in-crop with 2,4-D, glyphosate and glufosinate.

Expanded partnership integrates daily satellite imagery into Granular farm-management software suite to maximize crop potential.