Shortages and supply chain problems have hit the ag industry in a variety of ways in the past couple of years. And just when you think nothing else could happen, the supply of glyphosate, which is usually way more abundant than water in the American West, has apparently become short, forcing decisions about where glyphosate has the most value, says Ohio State University.

Weather patterns can have a significant impact on grasshopper populations from year to year, says Kansas State University Extension.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it will once again ban the use on food crops of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which has been linked to health problems in children, says Reuters.

Bayer, trying to contain billions of dollars in legal costs, has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court verdict that upheld damages to a customer blaming his cancer on the German group's glyphosate-based weedkillers, according to Reuters.

Bayer announced a multi-year agreement with Berkeley Lights, a leader in the functional characterization of live biology, to develop and perform high-throughput functional screening workflows aimed at accelerating and expanding the discovery of novel traits.

With the first herbicide-tolerant offering in grain sorghum, Alta Seeds is now bringing industry-first innovation to forage sorghum.