Insights and Stories on BASF

US allows farmers to use existing supplies of dicamba weedkillers

Feb. 14, 2024 at 5:40 pm CST

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that farmers can use some existing supplies of herbicides based on the chemical dicamba, despite a federal court ruling last week that halted sprayings.

U.S. dicamba ruling won’t touch Canada: Bayer

Feb. 9, 2024 at 12:31 pm CST

By Robert Arnason

US court cancels approvals for widely used dicamba weedkillers

Feb. 7, 2024 at 1:22 pm CST

By Reuters Tom Polansek

BASF halting hybrid wheat seed development in North America

Mar. 1, 2023 at 6:18 pm CST

By Karl Plume

Bayer, BASF win new trial on damage award in U.S. dicamba suit

Jul. 7, 2022 at 6:00 pm CDT

By Brendan Pierson

BASF pegs InVigor canola woes

Jun. 30, 2022 at 4:22 pm CDT

BASF says they are aware of the issues farmers are seeing in some of their canola varieties. A statement from the company, released in mid-June, noted that some InVigor hybrids “may be encountering various challenges that could be hindering crop establishment this season.” The issue had been noted in “select […]

By Alexis Stockford

GM ramps up EV push with plans to make battery materials in Canada

Mar. 7, 2022 at 7:25 pm CST

Reuters — General Motors and South Korea’s POSCO Chemical will build a $400 million facility to produce battery materials in Canada as the carmaker ramps up plans to produce mainly electric vehicles (EVs) in the future, the companies said Monday. The plant will produce cathode active material (CAM) for vehicle […]

By Aishwarya Nair Steve Scherer

BASF warns on seeding choices for drought-hit imi-treated fields

Sep. 22, 2021 at 11:13 am CDT

Updated, Sept. 22 — The maker of Odyssey, Solo and Viper is warning grain growers whose fields were excessively dry in 2021 that those herbicides may not break down soon enough in those soils to allow certain seeding choices in 2022. BASF Canada on Monday issued an “urgent notice to […]

By Dave Bedard

Bayer, Corteva in ‘two-dog battle’ over U.S. soy market

Apr. 9, 2021 at 8:26 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Bayer is launching a new genetically modified soybean in the United States, striking back against rival Corteva in a bid to retain its dominant position supplying seeds to the $40 billion U.S. soy industry. Billions of dollars are on the table for companies producing a growing […]

By Tom Polansek

Wireworms a target for first Group 30 insecticide in Canada

Oct. 20, 2020 at 6:32 pm CDT

The list of insecticides cleared for use in Canadian crops now includes its first Group 30 chemistry, as BASF makes plans to launch it in new wireworm control products next year. BASF Canada Agricultural Solutions on Monday announced approval from Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) for broflanilide, a […]