A few years ago, Kraft Foods decided to lose a lot of weight. And today, it’s starting the new year 150 million pounds (68 million kilograms) leaner – having eliminated enough material from its supply chain since 2005 to exceed the company’s packaging reduction goal two years ahead of schedule!

Bayer CropScience is adding the biofungicide Shemer to its portfolio of classic crop protection products. The company has now completed the acquisition of certain assets and technologies relating to biological development products of AgroGreen in Ashdod, Israel. This move follows the acquisition by Bayer CropScience in March last year of AgroGreen products which will be marketed under the brand names BioNem and Votivo® (containing the active ingredient Bacillus firmus).