agrichemical

Others offered agrichemical, construction, land improvement, or marketing services.

Imperial's agrichemical business accounts for about $1.2 billion of its $16 billion in sales.

In most cases, agrichemical refers to the broad range of pesticides, including insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides.

An estimated 30% of agrichemical compounds contain fluorine.

It is named after the Green Revolution, a movement to increase crop selection and agrichemical usage to increase yield.

They worked for the same agrichemical company; different divisions, but they drank together some nights, and their two families went on joint outings occasionally.

The move reflects Aceto's strategy for expanding its agrichemical business by creating partnerships with large manufacturers and distributors.

The company also provides rural services including fertiliser and agrichemical supply and wool and livestock activities.

USX also reported $500 million in charges for the restructuring of its coal, agrichemical and oil service operations.

Agrochemical (or agrichemical), a contraction of agricultural chemical, is a generic term for the various chemical products used in agriculture.

Agrichemical companies have responded by developing new generations of products that break down more quickly and are more precisely targeted to kill particular weeds or insects.

Registered to a Hanly Nowell, he works at an agrichemical plant in the town's industrial precinct."

Meanwhile, rural communities suffer because acreage cutbacks limit sales by agrichemical retailers, seed suppliers, tractor dealers and other Main Street businesses.

According to Agrow, Bayer CropScience led the agrichemical industry in sales in 2007.

Rhone-Poulenc paid $575 million for the agrichemical business of the Union Carbide Corporation of Danbury, Conn., last year.

He became an international symbol and spokesperson for independent farmers' rights and the regulation of transgenic agriculture during his protracted legal battle with agrichemical company Monsanto Company.

In 2004, the world's largest agrichemical company, Switzerland's Syngenta, launched a US lawsuit charging Monsanto with using coercive tactics to monopolize markets.

Four years ago, Mr. Dormann merged its various agrichemical operations into a 60-40 joint venture with Schering that is now called Agrevo.

But during 1989, USX sold the Lorain steel works to the Kobe Steel venture, as well as portions of its agrichemical business.

Morgan, Keegan & Company, in Atlanta, was recently recommending the First Mississippi Corporation, a Jackson, Miss., agrichemical producer with a growing interest in gold.

The culmination of this work was DuPont's purchase of Pioneer Hi-Bred Seeds and its integration into DuPont's agrichemical enterprise.

But many analysts expect any Monsanto bid to face competing bids from other major agrichemical companies, all of which want to develop crops that tolerate their pesticides so that farmers can use them more freely.

"Before we knew where the genes were, we were still breeding in the dark," said Dr. Steven Briggs, head of genomics for Syngenta, a Swiss seed and agrichemical company.

The agrichemical businesses that are buying up family-owned seed companies are more interested in hybrids that can stand up to mechanical harvesting and cross-country shipping and crops that ripen all at once.

The larger global relevance and beneficial long-range effects of ecological farming sustained by seed swaps, and the effects of such practices in countering the effects of agrichemical monoculture, are beginning to be studied.