Insights and Stories on Corteva

Sep. 15, 2022 at 9:45 pm CDT

Reuters — Seeds and pesticides company Corteva on Tuesday announced plans to exit about 35 countries and lay off roughly five per cent of its global workforce as part of the company’s cost-cutting plans. A surge in inflation this year to four-decade highs has forced Corporate America to slash planned […]

By Ankit Kumar, Ruhi Soni

Aug. 5, 2022 at 9:07 am CDT

Bengaluru | Reuters – Corteva Inc CTVA.N on Thursday raised its full-year sales and profit forecasts as the crop protection products maker benefits from surging demand from farmers looking to cash in on higher prices since the Ukraine war. The company, which reported a 14 percent jump in second-quarter operating earnings, also […]

By Ruhi Soni

Feb. 3, 2022 at 6:41 pm CST

Reuters — Corteva expects prices for grains and oilseeds to remain high this year on record demand levels, its CEO said Thursday, following the insecticide and seed company’s upbeat sales outlook a day earlier. Global agriculture demand and prices for crops picked up pace in the fourth quarter of 2021, […]

By Rithika Krishna

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

Sep. 2, 2021 at 1:40 pm CDT

Farmers can’t prevent canola flowers from aborting in hot weather resulting in lower yields, but one seed company is providing some insurance against it — as part of the price of the seed. Brevant’s Nexera canola seed comes with a “a first-of-its-kind” insurance policy worth up to $100 an acre […]

By Allan Dawson