Werner Wenning at the Annual Stockholders Meeting in Cologne: Bayer Off to an Excellent Start in 2007 Preliminary figures show substantial growth in first-quarter sales and earnings / Positive outlook for full year confirmed / Elections to the Supervisory Board COLOGNE/LEVERKUSEN, Germany, April 27, 2007 The Bayer Group increased sales and earnings substantially in the first quarter of 2007. Werner Wenning at the Annual Stockholders Meeting in Cologne: Bayer Off to an Excellent Start in...

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In the interests of good stewardship, manufacturer Bayer CropScience and agrochemical distributors have made arrangements to accept back any product returned by December 31 this year. STOCKS of Temik (aldicarb) still held on farms by potato, carrot and parsnip growers can now be returned. Opened and part used Ultima packs, with the tamper tag removed, will also be accepted back for disposal, but will not qualify for refund. Growers wanting to return Temik stocks should contact the...

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And finally, in March, Menu Foods recalled 60 million cans of dog and cat food after the deaths of 16 pets, mostly cats, that had eaten products that were made with wheat gluten imported from China contaminated with the chemical melamine. That peanut butter turned out to be contaminated with salmonella and her mother became severely ill but because the family was not aware that the cause was salmonella in the peanut butter, she took the jar with her to the hospital and continued to eat it...

At the height of yesterday's emergency 61 primary school children aged eight and nine and 14 adults were taken to Adelaide hospitals because of potential exposure. The alarm had been raised when a sticky black substance had been spotted on a slippery dip at the St Kilda adventure playground in Adelaide's norther suburbs. A substance which sparked a chemical emergency at a playground in Adelaide has been identified as petrol. The emergency was sparked when a five-year-old child used the...

He is one of several entrepreneurs, university scientists, poultry industry researchers and others tying to solve the chicken litter challenge in the region. The farmer has just spread a fertilizer made from poultry litter on the field, but you don't smell anything from your car window. A well-managed broiler house produces approximately 125 tons of poultry litter per year, according to research from University of Arkansas scientists. Keller and Nelson plan to use the pipeline for the...

As I write this, 109,915 employees in more than 24,000 floral shops across our nation are busy preparing, selling and delivering floral arrangements for Mother's Day. This not only affects mom-and-pop florists and supermarkets by the cheap abundance of imported flowers, but also makes it hard for American growers to compete. floral market is a $20-billion-a-year industry, yet the vast majority of the 4 billion flower stems sold here every year come from Latin America. As part of the "war...

Stratego is approved to control alternaria leaf spot, frogeye leaf spot, anthracnose, septoria brown spot, cercospora blight, pod and stem blight, rhizoctonia aerial blight, powdery mildew, and Asian soybean rust. Should they or shouldn t they invest the time and financial resources in a fungicide application? It s looking like fungicides are a good opportunity for improving crop health, and in turn boosting soybean yields. Bloomberg says that yield returns in soybean fields treated with...