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[investingisatrickygame] 16/3/2018 15:07

Supersonico,

The London Live event, a half hour on a localised TV station sharing with 3 others seems a strange thing to do.

Why do it and what is the purpose?
What is the size of the audience and more importantly, who is that audience?
What are you seeking to achieve?

The only thing you can say is that they are owned by The Evening Standard so I imagine they may be hoping for some PR roll-out from there. The ES owns the Independent newspaper and that would appear to be the extent of their syndication

Quite strange to me that you would limit your message to a London only audience number one and then share your time and profile with, for example, Nisbets, a global catering company and based in Bristol. Personally, I don't see the synergies.

[weyweyumfozo] 16/3/2018 11:27

The seller of the last four months still doesn't want accept less than 8p.

A quiet 6 months was to be expected after the September Results and I'm not expecting much in the end of year Results later this month (obviously the seller isn't either).

It would be nice if there is a very strong order book for 3LOGY (having had plenty of time for marketing), and we get to hear about it along with the results. Also, after this coming weekend's cold weather, we might return to some normal weather for the rest of the year.

[supersonico] 15/3/2018 21:39

@EdenResearch replaced in later tweet by @poultonVineyard
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[supersonico] 15/3/2018 18:41

Scientists identify factors which drive the evolution of herbicide resistance.

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have identified what is driving crop resistance to herbicides on a national scale.
The costs of weed management have doubled due to evolved herbicide resistance.
Farms that use a greater volume of herbicide have more resistance.
New findings could have an important impact on medicine as well as agriculture.
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have identified factors which are driving the evolution of herbicide resistance in crops – something which could also have an impact on medicine as well as agriculture.
Xenobiotic chemicals, such as herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and antibiotics, are used in both agriculture and healthcare to manage pests and diseases. However, resistance has evolved to all these types of xenobiotics, rendering them ineffective with serious consequences for crop production and health.
The new study, led by researchers from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Animal and Plant Sciences in collaboration with Rothamsted Research and the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, gives an important insight into how we can learn from past management of agricultural systems to reduce the likelihood of resistance evolving in the future.
Current strategies for managing resistance revolve around diversifying management and the range of chemicals used. Similar techniques have been proposed in medicine and agriculture but there is not yet a consensus on what is the best approach.
In the new study, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers examined the evolution of herbicide resistance in black-grass (Alopecurus myosuroides) in the UK. This has become a widespread weed present in 88 per cent of 24,824 of quadrats – small areas of habitat selected at random as samples for assessing the local distribution of plants and animals – monitored by researchers. It has spread northward in recent years and the scientists found the weed in areas where it had not been found in previous decades.
Lead author of the study Rob Freckleton, Professor of Population Biology from the University of Sheffield, said: “The driver for this spread is evolved herbicide resistance: we found that weeds in fields with higher densities are more resistant to herbicides.
“Once resistance has evolved it does not seem to go away: two years later, fields with high densities still had high densities, despite farmers employing a suite of different management techniques.
“We estimate that the economic costs of this are very high: the costs of weed management have doubled as a consequence of evolved resistance.”
The research offer important insights into diversifying management which is suggested as a possible technique for reducing the evolution of resistance. The study showed the technique will work to reduce resistance only if farmers reduce their inputs of herbicides. If they continue to use the same levels of herbicides or even increase their input, then this technique will not work.
The new findings show the volume and diversity of herbicide products are positively related to each other.
Professor Freckleton said: “The results were simple: farms that used a greater volume of herbicide had more resistance.
“Beyond this we found little evidence for a role of any other management techniques: neither the diversity of chemicals used – for example whether farmers used a variety of herbicides or just one – or diversity of cropping mattered, despite both being advocated as methods to reduce the evolution of resistance.”
He added: “New techniques such as precision agriculture (PA) offer the possibility of targeted applications of chemicals: for example, robots could give doses of herbicide at the level of individual plants.
“In the meantime, the results that we have obtained suggest a simple rule of thumb: just using more herbicide will select for more resistance.”
The study showed that even in the absence of chemicals, directional selection from the repeated use of the same management will lead to evolution resistance. This highlighted a need to design a management system in which evolution is anticipated. Apart from focussing on densities and yields, there needs to be an appreciation of resistance.
“In an example of convergent evolution, one ecotype of the weed barnyardgrass (Eichochloa crus-galli var oryzicola L.) appears indistinguishable from domesticated rice (Oryza sativa L.),” said Professor Freckleton.
“Barnyardgrass is a weed because it reduces the yields of rice, so when farmers see weeds they pull them out. This behaviour has been selected for weeds that mimic the crop, as weed plants that look similar to rice avoid being killed.
“This is evolved resistance: when we manage natural systems in a selective manner, evolution is inevitable.”
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Weakening UK food law enforcement: a risky tactic in Brexit
by Erik Millstone & Tim Lang

[northwick] 15/3/2018 18:15

Looks like there was a seller who forced the price down.Someone does not want to wait for the results

[supersonico] 15/3/2018 17:11

Insecticide Resistance Signals Negative Consequences of Widespread Neonicotinoid Use on Multiple Field Crops in the U.S. Cotton Belt

Over the past 15 years, neonicotinoid seed treatments have been adopted worldwide and are used on a large proportion of U.S. field crops. Although neonicotinoids are used widely, little is known about how large-scale deployment affects pest populations over long periods. Here, we report a positive relationship between the deployment of neonicotinoid seed-dressings on multiple crops and the emergence of insecticide resistance in tobacco thrips (Frankliniella fusca), a polyphagous insect herbivore that is an important pest of seedling cotton but not soybean or maize. Using a geospatial approach, we studied the relationship between neonicotinoid resistance measured in 301 F. fusca populations to landscape-scale crop production patterns across nine states in the southeastern U.S. cotton production region, in which soybean, maize and cotton are the dominant crops. Our research linked the spatiotemporal abundance of cotton and soybean production to neonicotinoid resistance in F. fusca that is leading to a dramatic increase in insecticide use in cotton. Results demonstrate that cross-crop resistance selection has important effects on pests and, in turn, drives pesticide use and increases environmental impacts associated with their use.
Source: Huseth AS et al. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2018, 52 (4), pp 2314–2322
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b06015

[attyg] 15/3/2018 16:48

Just as some interested in a company buy just before an expected announcement, some sell.
Of course the MMs wouldn't be wanting to "shake the tree" would they?

Perhaps we may get news this Monday?

I remain strong.

Just call me Popeye

[northwick] 15/3/2018 16:31

See someone took 8p to sell their 49K shares just now. Wonder why?

[supersonico] 15/3/2018 15:00

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Some linkages and Twitter @LondonLive/ @Eden research correlations.

[supersonico] 15/3/2018 00:53

Norhtwick,

your guess is as good as mine.. in the coming months I presume.
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Pesticides and public health: an analysis of the regulatory approach to assessing the carcinogenicity of glyphosate in the European Union



Abstract
The present paper scrutinises the European authorities’ assessment of the carcinogenic hazard posed by glyphosate based on Regulation (EC) 1272/2008. We use the authorities’ own criteria as a benchmark to analyse their weight of evidence (WoE) approach. Therefore, our analysis goes beyond the comparison of the assessments made by the European Food Safety Authority and the International Agency for Research on Cancer published by others. We show that not classifying glyphosate as a carcinogen by the European authorities, including the European Chemicals Agency, appears to be not consistent with, and in some instances, a direct violation of the applicable guidance and guideline documents. In particular, we criticise an arbitrary attenuation by the authorities of the power of statistical analyses; their disregard of existing dose–response relationships; their unjustified claim that the doses used in the mouse carcinogenicity studies were too high and their contention that the carcinogenic effects were not reproducible by focusing on quantitative and neglecting qualitative reproducibility. Further aspects incorrectly used were historical control data, multisite responses and progression of lesions to malignancy. Contrary to the authorities’ evaluations, proper application of statistical methods and WoE criteria inevitably leads to the conclusion that glyphosate is ‘probably carcinogenic’ (corresponding to category 1B in the European Union).
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US Senators Urge EPA to Keep Protecting Kids from Pesticides
Environmental Agency Threatening to Roll Back Obama-Era Pesticide Safeguards

The lawmakers wrote to Scott Pruitt, the EPA administrator, after the EPA announced it was considering rolling back two Obama-era safeguards that prohibit children under 18 from handling pesticides on farms and in other workplaces. The Senators, led by Tom Udall (D-NM), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), added their voices to a coalition of farmworkers, advocates, labor unions, and nongovernmental organizations begging the EPA not to roll back crucially important protections for the health of children.
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[northwick] 14/3/2018 17:15

Supersonica Any idea/views as to why TT have not released their head lice products on the market yet. Could there be regulatory issues still to be ironed out.

[supersonico] 13/3/2018 21:42

Biological control has moved into the mainstream.

After years of experimentation and new and improved technologies, biocontrol is becoming a more regular part of many growers’ integrated pest management (IPM) programs. And the timing couldn’t be better, as consumer demands for more sustainable production methods for the produce and ornamentals they buy are moving back upstream. Retailers have taken notice and many are beginning to set expectations for what they want to see from the growers they choose to buy from.

Biocontrol, of course, is a good fit for growers looking to add more sustainable tools in their production. Those that aren’t becoming familiar with these options risk being left behind as the market moves forward without them.
This was one of the most prominent themes of the recent Biocontrols USA West Conference & Expo, held March 7-9, 2018 in Carlsbad, CA, just north of San Diego. Nearly 400 growers, crop consultants, researchers, crop protection retailers, and industry suppliers took part in the event, taking a look at all aspects of biological control, from new products, to production and application techniques, to marketing promotions and supply chain considerations. Attendees also had access to one-on-one discussions with 45 of the biocontrol industry’s leading suppliers on their latest products and crop protection techniques.
The conference’s kickoff session, Biocontrol: The Retailer and Consumer Perspective, dug into some of the expectations from the ultimate customers for U.S. growers. Certis USA Executive Vice President Tim Damico shared data from the International Food Information Council Foundation’s 2017 Food and Health Survey, citing sustainability as an important factor for more than half of consumers. And underlining the importance of biocontrol, Damico said, of those people, the most important aspect of sustainability is “Reducing the amount of pesticides used to produce food.”

Attendees at the conference heard from a wide range of presenters, including leading growers who are successfully orienting biocontrol into their day-to-day production strategies. An Organics and Biocontrol panel discussion included presentations on strategies from some of the largest organic producers in the nation including Alan Boyce from Materra Farming, Arnott Duncan from Duncan Family Farms, Gerald Davis from Grimmway Farms, and Anthony Duttle from Tanimura & Antle. Grimmway Farms’ Kim Horton also shared her procedures for field trialing biocontrol materials.
The conference concluded with a panel discussion on the ins and outs of an intriguing new class of biological products, biostimulants. Panelists including a consultant (David Holden, Holden Research & Consulting), a researcher (The Ohio State University’s Matt Kleinhenz), a grower (J&D Produce’s Carlos Lazcano), and a supplier (Michael Austin from Agrinos), each offered their takes on where these products fit for growers and how they can make the best and most profitable use of them in their production.

A pre-conference Biocontrols field tour visited greenhouse, fruit production groves and vineyards, and research facilities in the San Diego area. More than 50 tour attendees rode the bus to four stops where they learned about the latest biocontrol strategies for managing the Asian Citrus Psyllid, the vector for citrus greening, a tremendous potential threat to California’s fresh citrus industry; proper sanitation techniques for biocontrol programs; and the latest control strategies for key fruit pests including vine mealybug, red scale, purple scale, and citrus mealybug.
The next event in the Biocontrols Conference & Expo Series was also announced. The Biocontrols USA East Conference & Expo will be held Oct. 11-12, 2018 in Rochester, NY. Further details about the program and exhibitors will be announced in the coming weeks.

[attyg] 13/3/2018 14:39

Do you mean the strap line on the top of the Sumi Agro web page?
If so, then that has been there for many months.

Still nice to see it still there.

[supersonico] 13/3/2018 13:40

Sumiagro putting Mevalone on the front page..



as well as Sipcam;

[attyg] 13/3/2018 11:12

Perhaps.
It would be great news if that indeed is the case.

Regardless, I do think you found what I am sure the BoD consider to be a very important piece of IP. One which they believe could earn significant revenues for the company.

Despite my weariness of the delays and the reports that we continue to be close to commercial success when little seems to change from an outsiders perspective, I continue to hold firm to my view that Eden has genuine prospects of being a wonderful success for all stakeholders, including shareholders.

There are plenty reasons, all of which have been aired on this BB.
I do not think we are dealing with pie in the sky smoke and mirrors.
There are too many associations with quality names.
The share price is right over on the extreme of the pendulum - I look forward to an share price that is more reflective of the company prospects - we probably need some decent commercial news to change the sentiment - but once sentiment is changed, well the sky is the limit.

[supersonico] 13/3/2018 10:35

AttyG,

I agree we have heard similar in the past but could the 'Surprising' discovery and subsequent patent explain some of the delays..

ie.. we've stumbled across something very surprising with wider commercial opportunities than MK1 in certain applications.

..lets hold of GO-E/ Sustaine commercialisation of 'Pipeline' until all our ducks in a row with Micro-particle tech??

Might it also be what persuaded Lykele van der Broek decided to join Eden??

IMO..all Speculation on my part.
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