AUGUST
US agrochemical company American Vanguard subsidiary Amvac Mexico acquired certain selective herbicides and contact fungicides sold in Mexico from Syngenta (owned by ChemChina).
BASF and digital connectivity company Proagrica entered into a development and operation agreement to launch the first farm management system interface for BASF’s online platform for crop management decisions, Maglis.
Bayer’s Crop Science division entered into an exclusive global distribution deal with Italian biostimulants producer Sicit 2000.
Bayer’s Crop Science division agreed to collaborate with US not-for-profit company Citrus Research and Development Foundation on developing solutions to the bacterial citrus greening disease (Candidatus liberibacter).
Italian agrochemical company Diachem acquired Dutch biosolutions business Pireco.
Dow AgroSciences and US biotechnology company M S Technologies granted a non-exclusive licence to Syngenta (owned by ChemChina) for the use of the herbicide tolerance Enlist E3 (DAS44406) trait in genetically modified soybeans.
Dow AgroSciences entered into an agreement with US plant biotechnology company Arcadia Biosciences to develop and commercialise in North America non-genetically modified wheat with improved nutritional qualities.
Dow AgroSciences expanded its collaboration with US company TeselaGen Biotechnology on the production of a biological design automation platform aimed at accelerating the discovery of crop protection and seed products.
DuPont agreed to acquire the US agricultural software and analytics company, Granular.
Contract research company Eurofins Scientific agreed to acquire Indian CRO Advinus Therapeutics from parent company Tata Group.
Mitsui Chemicals’ agrochemical business, Mitsui Chemicals Agro, agreed with Indonesian agrochemical company PT Agriculture Construction to acquire a 30% stake in its agrochemical distribution subsidiary, P T Agriculture Construction Indonesia.
Monsanto and Sumitomo Chemical subsidiary Valent USA Corporation again extended their US herbicide and insecticide promotion arrangement for maize, soybean and cotton growers.
Monsanto entered into a global licensing agreement with the South Korean genome editing company, ToolGen, to use the latter’s CRISPR technology platform to develop agricultural plant products.
Sumitomo Chemical agreed to acquire Japanese company Kyowa Hakko Bio’s plant growth regulator business.
The Canadian company, Vive Crop Protection, entered into a three-year deal with four unnamed biopesticide manufacturers to develop improved versions of their products using Vive’s proprietary Allosperse polymer-based delivery system.
Source: Agrow
An overview to the most relevant transactions that have taken place in the crop protection industry and across the globe on 2017.... Just pure M&A.