The Delaware Department of Agriculture earlier this month announced the 29th round of easement selections by theDelaware Agricultural Lands Preservation Foundation today, preserving 36 properties comprising more than 2,800 acres at a cost of …
Following the news that Corteva will split into crop protection and seed companies, I checked out the five-year stock performance of the companies involved in the complex 2017 merger and separation of Dow and DuPont.
Corteva's Board of Directors unanimously approved a plan to separate the company into two publicly traded companies, one comprising its current Crop Protection business and the other being its current seed business to be known as “SpinCo”.
Delaware State University dedicated the new Agilent Hub for Agriculture, Innovation, and Extension.
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The Delaware Office of the Marijuana Commissioner announced the Social Equity Financial Assistance (SEFA) Grant Program is underway.
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Delaware officials reported the first three days of both recreational and medical marijuana sales netted $903,000.
Union Pacific Corporation and Norfolk Southern Thursday announced a widely rumored agreement calling for Norfolk Southern to be acquired in an $85 billion deal.
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Delaware Safety Council is marking its 106th anniversary and celebrating Founders Day on June 4, 1919. The day came during National Safety Month.
FMC Corporation announced a strategic agreement with Corteva Agriscience that will expand FMC’s fluindapyr fungicide technology in the U.S. corn and soybean markets. The collaboration between the two agricultural companies will enable more U…
The Delaware Division of Small Business (DSB) and the Delaware Council on Farm & Food Policy announced that DSB began accepting grant applications for Cycle 4 of the First State Food System Program on May 5.
Delaware is no longer seeing drought conditions.
Delaware joined a coalition of attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to block recent tariffs.
A new website from the Delaware Climate Office reported an improvement in the state's drought conditions as normal rainfall returned to the region. That's good news for the state's agribusiness industry.
Winners were announce Monday at Innovation Venture – a national agribusiness-AI conference for HBCU students -created by Delaware State University (DSU) and Capital One.
Capital One Financial and Delaware State University (DSU) are hosting the Innovation Venture, a national agribusiness conference and student-developed product pitch competition.
Since the 1920s, the Hopkins Family has farmed the same plot of land in Havre De Grace, Maryland, west of Newark.The farm housed a dairy from 1926 until 2000. Since then, the Hopkins family has produced tomatoes for canning and grain crops li…
The FBI has determined that Delaware marijuana background checks do not meet its standards.
Delaware received needed rainfall on Monday night as a storm system soaked the entire state.
The Delmarva chicken community raised 613 million chickens, produced 4.6 billion pounds of poultry and generated $4.8 billion in sales in 2024, new economic statistics show.
