Although the show floor features a fair amount of equipment and technology offerings, the annual Commodity Classic tends to be a forum for crop input suppliers to debut new products for the marketplace. And the 2023 was no exception to this rule! Overall, dozens of companies exhibiting offered attendees previews of upcoming brand introductions.
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Commodity Classic 2023 welcomed more than 10,000 growers, exhibitors, and ag retailers to the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando.
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Syngenta announced plans for a new herbicide for corn at the show. Called Storen, the product features four active ingredients – bicyclopyrone, mesotrione, S-metolachlor, and pyroxasulfone, plus a safener (benoxacor) – to provide control for such weeds as waterhemp, common ragweed, morning glory, and Palmer amaranth. The company anticipates approval for Storen for the 2024 growing season.
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Bayer CropScience announced the introduction of Preceon Smart Corn System at Commodity Classic. According to the company, the Preceon Smart Corn System uses three complementary components that, when applied together, help users better manage risk and increase opportunities to help protect their yield and profitability potential. This includes short stature corn hybrids, which are designed to help protect crop yield loss due to increased lodging and green sap tolerance in high winds and challenging weather conditions.
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At Commodity Classic, Helena Agri-Enterprises introduced two products for the market. The first is Resgenix, a polyacrylamide formulation that the company claims can help users improve their water efficiency by mitigating erosion, run-off, and soil moisture evaporation loss. The second is called Enertia, an applied seed treatment that stabilizes enzymes using Helena’s VersaShield Formulation Technology.
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From Meristem Crop Performance, attendees learned about the Revline Hopper Throttle systems for corn and soybean. According to the company, the base product of these includes 1.35 pounds of zinc plus iron and manganese. The systems’ bio-capsules are charged with Terrasym as well as bio-fertility and nitrogen-fixing microbes.
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At the Ostara booth, visitors learned about the company’s new Crystal Green. A granular phosphate fertilizer (5-28-0, with 10% Mg), Crystal Green works differently than conventional phosphate fertilizers, says the company, by solubilizing nutrients in response to crop demand as plant roots naturally exude organic acids instead of through moisture or soil temperature.
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At a press briefing, Corteva Agriscience’s Tom Greene (pictured) talked about the company’s work with gene-editing technology using CRISPR. The plan is to use this to develop elite corn hybrids to help growers combat such common diseases as Northern leaf blight, Southern rust, gray leaf spot, and anthracnose stalk rot. “These diseases cost North American corn growers more than 318 bushels in production,” said Greene. Right now, Corteva anticipates these new hybrids will be available “by the end of the decade.”
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The 2024 Commodity Classic will be held in Houston.
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