How Corteva Is Gearing Up for a Busy 2026
If all goes well on the regulatory front, the crop protection/seed giant will have a new fungicide and seed treatment entering the market. Photo: Corteva
According to representatives at the annual field day in early July, Corteva Agriscience has been very active in many segments of the agricultural business. This includes launching a trio of new herbicides (Kyber Pro, Sonic Boom, and Enversa) earlier this year. Moving forward, the company is focusing its new product efforts on the fungicide and seed treatment sectors.
In June, Corteva today announced the upcoming launch of Forcivo fungicide. Formulated to tackle corn and soybean foliar diseases, Forcivo features three active ingredients: Flutriafol, azoxystrobin, and fluindapyr. According to Mike Eiberger, U.S. Marketing Leader, Forcivo fungicide will help shield crops with overlapping preventive and curative activity while controlling multiple foliar fungal diseases like tar spot, Southern rust, and frogeye leaf spot.
“Forcivo fungicide will give growers a powerful disease management tool that bolsters plant health, pushes yield potential and manages disease resistance,” said Eiberger. “With the help of Forcivo fungicide, growers will be able to maximize their return on investment and increase their crops’ yield potential.”
Forcivo features three active ingredients: Flutriafol, azoxystrobin, and fluindapyr.
For farmers growing multiple crops or combating multiple fungal infections, he added, Forcivo fungicide will provide broad-spectrum control of many of the toughest diseases on not only corn and soybeans but also wheat, barley, sorghum, and triticale. “Growers will be able to use Forcivo fungicide to effectively manage challenging diseases that return year after year and easily spread to other uninfected fields,” said Eiberger.
An important point of difference Forcivo fungicide offers ag retailers and their grower-customers is its three active ingredients offer up to 30-day residual activity on crops — compared with 21 days for most other fungicide options.
“The multiple modes of action and three active ingredients in Forcivo fungicide will give growers peace of mind that it will control even tough diseases,” he said. “Additionally, the low use rate of 7 to 9 fluid ounces per acre will offer growers cost savings as well as easier handling, mixing, and logistics when compared with other fungicides.”
New Seed Treatment
On the seed treatment front, Corteva Agriscience announced an enhancement to its LumiGEN corn seed treatment package with the addition of a new, biological plant nutrition component engineered to promote germination and strong root development for more uniform corn emergence.
According to Brad Van Kooten, Marketing Leader, Seed Applied Technologies, Pioneer Seeds, Lumidapt Valta LS nutrition seed treatment is a naturally derived seed treatment that delivers vital nutrients to support healthy corn emergence. The nutrients supplied by the product include boron, sulfur, potassium, manganese, cobalt, and molybdenum.
“Our goal is to continuously improve seed treatments for farmers planting Corteva seed,” said Van Kooten. “Innovations like these help our customers protect their valuable seed investment and bring in more bushels.”
In addition, said Van Kooten, Lumidapt Valta LS is a biological seed treatment. The brand contains lignosulfonates, which are biopolymers derived from the lignin present in the cell walls of all plants. “The lignosulfonate found in Lumidapt Valta LS is extracted from pine trees,” he said. “It’s a biodegradable substance that’s constantly generated by the paper milling industry. It’s important to Corteva and the farmers we serve to be able to bring forward seed treatments with sustainable features like this.”
According to Corteva represent-atives, both Forcivo fungicide and the latest LumiGEN corn seed treatment package should be available to users in time for 2026 planting season, pending EPA approval.
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