World Food Prize Presented in Des Moines
Brazilian soil scientist Mariangela Hungria is the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate. Hungria received the $500,000 World Food Prize for her groundbreaking work in biological nitrogen fixation.
Articles tagged under: biological
Novel Biological Increases Carbon Credit ROI
An Australian-based company called Loam Bio is launching a program called CarbonBuilder in the U.S. this year. Portfolio Lead Jake Olson says this is a soybean microbial seed overtreatment that builds soil carbon. "We're not asking folks to change their…
Living Inside the Plant
One of the newest players in the crop nutrition business is Azotic. The company’s primary product is Envita, which is a patented, nitrogen-fixation biological that can be applied in furrow at seeding or as a post-emergent foliar spray. "It's getting inside…
Syngenta Group Acquires Italian Biologicals Company
Syngenta Crop Protection has acquired an Italy-based biologicals company called Valagro. Corey Huck, who is the head of global biologicals, says this acquisition helps address Syngenta’s focus on sustainability. "The driver being how do we make actually make and put…
New Biological Approved
Plant Health Care has been given EPA approval for its new biological product called PHC398. This is the first active ingredient in the company’s technology platform that has been approved for registration. Plant Health Care officials said this is the…
