Bayer joins the ranks of agribusinesses paying farmers for carbon-conserving practices under a new program being rolled out this fall.

Bayer, Corteva and BASF all have filed motions in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals seeking en banc rehearing of a June 3 decision vacating registrations of Xtendimax, FeXapan and Engenia for use on soybeans and cotton.

Bayer announced Thursday that it will team up with Prospera Technologies Inc. to create tools that track and analyze greenhouse data for vegetable growers.

Officials with ag chemical giant Bayer say they are standing behind the safety of Roundup and dicamba herbicides despite a massive $11.3 billion settlement of litigation over the products. Bayer CEO Werner Baumann also says the agreement with law firms representing nearly 100,000 Roundup plaintiffs and an undetermined number of dicamba plaintiffs should allay growers’ concerns about access to the herbicides..

It’s National Pollinator Week, (June 22-28) and a good time to look at what’s happening in the pollinator world.