MERGERS,
ACQUISITIONS
& DEALS IN 2017
MAY
US agrochemical and specialty chemical company Albaugh partnered with the Colorado Wheat Research Foundation and Limagrain Cereal Seeds to develop a non-genetically modified herbicide-tolerant wheat production system, CoAxium.
BASF partnered with researchers at the US Louisiana State University’s AgCenter and the plant science company, Horizon Ag, to commercialise its non-genetically modified herbicide-tolerant Provisia rice system.
Bayer CropScience formed its first partnership through its Bayer ForwardFarming initiative with a Dutch farm, Het Groene Hart.
Belgian company Belchim Crop Protection agreed to acquire Canadian agrochemical company Engage Agro’s US business, Engage Agro USA.
French genomics company Cellectis’ US plant science subsidiary, Calyxt, entered into a service agreement with the US University of Minnesota to field test a powdery mildew-resistant spring wheat variety.
Brazilian fertiliser supplier Grupo Vittia acquired an 80% stake in Brazilian biopesticide company Biovalens.
The US agribusiness company, Hartung Brothers Inc, agreed to acquire Syngenta’s seed production operations in the US state of Hawaii on Oahu and Kauai.
The US biopesticide company, Marrone Bio Innovations, and US agrochemical and specialty chemical company Albaugh’s Mexican distributor,
Agri-Star, agreed a distribution deal in Mexico.
Marrone Bio Innovations entered into a distribution agreement with US company Jet Harvest covering the latter’s fungicide/bactericide/algaecide, Jet-Ag (hydrogen peroxide + peroxyacetic acid).
Japanese company Mitsui & Co acquired Israeli seed company Top Seeds and renamed it Top Seeds International.
The UK crop enhancement company, Plant Impact, agreed a research and development collaboration with the Belgian Ghent University granting Plant Impact exclusive development access and a licensing option to a novel group of phosphonamide pyrabactin analogues involved in water loss from plants.
Chinese company Sinochem Agrochemical R&D agreed to collaborate with Syngenta on the research and development of pyrimidinamine fungicides.
Dextra International appointed as transaction leader to sell a large crop protection product registrations in Peru.
Syngenta agreed to partner with US applied informatics for agriculture company Iteris to provide growers in Italy with the ClearAg land and soil modelling platform.