84 / SEEDWORLD.COM OCTOBER 2018 Products Use Notice for “This Is My Field” Advertisement for Roundup Ready® Xtend Crop System XtendiMax® herbicide with VaporGrip® Technology is part of the Roundup Ready® Xtend Crop System and is a restricted use pesticide for retail sale to and use only by Certified Applicators or persons under their direct supervision and only for those uses covered by the Certified Applicator’s certification. ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS FOR USE ON PESTICIDE LABELING. It is a violation of federal and state law to use any pesticide product other than in accordance with its labeling. XtendiMax® herbicide with VaporGrip® Technology may not be approved in all states and may be subject to use restrictions in some states. Check with your local Monsanto dealer or representative or U.S. EPA and your state pesticide regulatory agency for the product registration status and additional restrictions in your state. For approved tank-mix products and nozzles visit XtendiMaxApplicationRequirements.com Monsanto Company is a member of Excellence Through Stewardship® (ETS). Monsanto products are commercialized in accordance with ETS Product Launch Stewardship Guidance, and in compliance with Monsanto’s Policy for Commercialization of Biotechnology-Derived Plant Products in Commodity Crops. This product has been approved for import into key export markets with functioning regulatory systems. Any crop or material produced from this product can only be exported to, or used, processed or sold in countries where all necessary regulatory approvals have been granted. It is a violation of national and international law to move material containing biotech traits across boundaries into nations where import is not permitted. Growers should talk to their grain handler or product purchaser to confirm their buying position for this product. Excellence Through Stewardship® is a registered trademark of Excellence Through Stewardship. ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS FOR USE ON PESTICIDE LABELING. IT IS A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL AND STATE LAW to use any pesticide product other than in accordance with its labeling. NOT ALL formulations of dicamba or glyphosate are approved for in-crop use with Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® soybeans. ONLY USE FORMULATIONS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY LABELED FOR SUCH USES AND APPROVED FOR SUCH USE IN THE STATE OF APPLICATION. Contact the U.S. EPA and your state pesticide regulatory agency with any questions about the approval status of dicamba herbicide products for in-crop use with Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® soybeans. Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® soybeans contain genes that confer tolerance to glyphosate and dicamba. Glyphosate will kill crops that are not tolerant to glyphosate. Dicamba will kill crops that are not tolerant to dicamba. Contact your Monsanto dealer or refer to Monsanto’s Technology Use Guide for recommended weed control programs. Performance may vary from location to location and from year to year, as local growing, soil and weather conditions may vary. Growers should evaluate data from multiple locations and years whenever possible and should consider the impacts of these conditions on the grower’s fields. Always read and follow grain marketing and all other stewardship practices and pesticide label directions. Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® , Roundup Ready® , VaporGrip® and XtendiMax® are registered trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ©2018 Monsanto Company All Rights Reserved MDIC-18037-SW-LC-1018 Generation seed management software customers and will still be part of the Cultura family of agribusiness software companies. Legend Seeds transitioned from a family-owned independent regional seed company to an employee-owned independent regional company through an employee stock ownership plan as of Aug. 1. Verdesian Life Sciences has become the exclusive Midwest distributor of Cytozyme Laboratories’ SEED+ DRY and CROP+, effective Aug. 15. BASF closed the acquisition of Bayer’s global vegetable seeds business, mainly operating under the brand Nunhems. The acquired vegetable seeds business comprises 24 crops and about 2,600 varieties. This closing completes BASF’s acquisition of a significant range of businesses and assets with combined 2017 sales of 2.2 billion euros, which Bayer offered to divest in the context of its takeover of Monsanto. Tillerman Seeds LLC completed its second acquisition. The Michigan-based company acquired the assets and real estate of Legacy Seeds, Inc., a Scandinavia, Wisconsin-based producer of alfalfa, corn, wheat and soybean seeds, as well as cover crops. Legacy also has seed operations in Nampa, Idaho. Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. signed a non-exclusive research license agreement jointly with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Pioneer, part of Corteva Agriscience, for the use of CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing technology for crops. The joint license covers intellectual property consisting of approximately 48 patents and patent applications on CRISPR-Cas9 technology controlled by the Broad Institute and Pioneer. Farmer’s Business Network, Inc., launched F2F Genetics Network. At the helm of this new company is Ron Wulfkuhle, who formerly served as head of GreenLeaf Genetics (Syngenta’s licensing arm). Sakata Seed America announced the sale of its onion seed breeding program to Zaad Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Zeder, effective July 27. Zaad will continue to advance innovation and introduce quality new genetics to the market through the established breeding program and will supply the program’s seed moving forward. PGG Wrightson Ltd and DLF Seeds A/S has reached an agreement for DLF to acquire PGG Wrightson Seeds. The transaction remains subject to regulatory approvals. PPG Wrightson Seeds is international market leader in the Southern Hemisphere within forage and turf seeds, with activities in New Zealand, Australia, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. Corteva Agriscience and Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd., the commercial arm of Agriculture Victoria, announces a license agreement for a novel source of blackleg resistance in canola (Brassica napus) developed by AVS using Optimum Haploid Value technology.