How to Use agrochemical in a Sentence

agrochemical

noun

• The Monsanto tie-up is the last of a trio of mega-deals reshaping the global agrochemicals industry.
  — Gaspard Sebag, Bloomberg.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• The dusty road leads straight to the grain silo, where farmers in nearly identical overalls and plaid shirts wait next to a small shop selling tubs of agrochemicals and piles of seed bags.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 12 Apr. 2019
• Those standards include waste and water management protection and the safe use of agrochemicals.
  — Alicia Kortendick, oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2019
• The German company acquired Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, in a $63 billion deal last year, creating the world’s largest seed and agrochemical company.
  — nola.com, 15 June 2019
• One is the particular combination of agrochemicals to which bees are exposed.
  — Mira Abed, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
• The agrochemicals business, as it is known, develops crop-protection products.
  — Dana Mattioli, WSJ, 7 June 2018
• The agrochemical giant sells 50 percent of Malawi’s commercial corn seeds, and their sales would plummet if the subsidies were eliminated or redirected to more productive uses.
  — Timothy A. Wise, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2019
• The government recently introduced legislation to subsidize a crop insurance scheme aimed at reducing some of the financial risk faced by farmers who take out loans to buy seeds and agrochemicals.
  — Katy Daigle, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2017
• Bayer acquired Monsanto in a $63 billion acquisition last year, creating the world’s largest seed and agrochemical company.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• Meanwhile, hundreds of glyphosate lawsuits are still pending, all of them directed at German multinational Bayer, which bought agrochemical giant Monsanto last year.
  — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2019
• But consider who stands to lose from such a shift: corporate interests that profit from modern agrochemical-intensive farming and factory-farm livestock production.
  — David R. Montgomery, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2019
• The bigger picture is even more exciting: Robotics can be applied to fungicides, insecticides, and even fertilizers, reducing agrochemicals in large-scale farming by 90-plus percent.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 24 June 2019
• While microbiologists emphasize the urgency of fighting antibiotic resistance, agrochemical industry veterans like Mr. Simmons say it must be balanced against hunger and the world’s growing demand for food.
  — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 7 June 2019
• Job prospects are surprisingly numerous: work for large citrus production companies, grove service companies, agricultural cooperatives, juice processing plants, agrochemical and fertilizer companies, or at citrus research facilities.
  — Peter Jones, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024