How to Use agrochemical in a Sentence

agrochemical

noun
  • The prairie isn’t doing well either, abutted by commercial farms and subjected to the runoff of their agrochemicals.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Those standards include waste and water management protection and the safe use of agrochemicals.
    — Alicia Kortendick, oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • The agrochemicals business, as it is known, develops crop-protection products.
    — Dana Mattioli, WSJ, 7 June 2018
  • One is the particular combination of agrochemicals to which bees are exposed.
    — Mira Abed, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
  • Several lines of evidence connect pesticides and other agrochemicals to human health risks.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
  • According to Reuters, at least one version of the report stopped short of suggesting any changes to how pesticides and other agrochemicals are regulated or how they get approved.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • With habitat loss, climate change, agrochemicals, and a new wave of invasive hornets hounding Britain’s bee colonies, its founders believe artificial intelligence could be an unlikely trump card.
    — Frankie Adkins, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Across the states, GOP legislators are pushing liability shields for the makers of toxic agrochemicals.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Plastic waste powers chemistry Anilines are widely used in the production of pharmaceuticals, dyes, agrochemicals, and advanced materials.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
  • 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
  • Such advances are particularly valuable in drug discovery, where precise molecular design is essential, as well as in the development of advanced materials and agrochemicals.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Recognizing that a deep tech like syn-bio could revolutionize the agrochemicals industry, for instance, Bayer set up a joint venture with the start-up Gingko Bioworks back in 2017.
    — François Candelon, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • In August, the discontent grew when a leak showed that the White House's forthcoming MAHA strategy report would sidestep tougher limits on pesticides and other agrochemicals, bowing to fierce industry pressure.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Think about not only the sales of high-value products, such as the pharmaceuticals of Novartis and Roche and the watches of the Swatch Group (which includes Longines, Omega, Tissot, and other famous brands) but also machinery (ABB) and agrochemicals (Syngenta).
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2016

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