EndurX Technology is a patented technology platform that improves the activity and performance of contact pesticides.
Calvin Leach will lead Prime Source’s overall brand management, working to position and further develop our expanding portfolio of plant-protection and specialty products.
Crossover features a unique pest spectrum that includes diseases like rust, leaf blight and powdery mildew, and insects such as aphids, cutworm, earworm and stinkbugs.
It joins Grandevo Bioinsecticide in the company’s product portfolio that helps growers control crop-damaging pests.
Last week 52 members of Congress urged EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy in a letter to acknowledge that the current ag worker protection standards are “limited” and “insufficient” to protect workers from the hazards of handling pesticides.
Syngenta’s Clariva Complete Beans nematicide/insecticide/fungicide — an on-seed application of separately registered products — showed consistently higher soybean yields and season-long protection against soybean cyst nematode in field treails..
MANA announced that it will operate under a new corporate brand name, ADAMA, as of early April 2014.
NIRVANA is a patented formulation catalyst that allows the use of standard EC formulated insecticides to be mixed with liquid fertilizers for use at planting.
DuPont’s Prevathon insect control powered by Rynaxypyr has received U.S. EPA registration for use on cereal crops, including wheat, most other small grains and sorghum.
Bt resistance, weather concerns and myriad other issues have led to an increase in both traditional pest pressures as well as new pests.
Company remains confident in the scientific and legal foundation supporting the insecticide’s registration and use.
Among the crop input/service categories, the crop protection sector has suffered the most losses over the past decade. Yet, 2013 was a great year for the segment, thanks in part to the wetter-than-normal season.
The seed treatment industry was stronger than ever in 2013 with new formulations and combinations of active ingredients.
Syngenta announced the registration in Argentina of FORTENZA, a novel seed treatment insecticide for use on soybean, corn and sunflower.
Weather conditions are creating situations suitable for insects not commonly seen, according to a University of Missouri Extension agronomy specialist.
Certis U.S.A. has launched the biopesticide Gemstar insecticidal virus in Brazil for the control of corn earworm, a major pest of Brazil’s cotton and soybean crops.
Monsanto and Michigan State University are continuing their support of the Corn Rootworm Knowledge Research Program.
Significant Western corn rootworm larval injury in first-year cornfields has been confirmed in two Illinois counties.
Ohio State University entomologists are developing a new fact sheet to provide soybean growers updated information on stink bugs.