The Scoop’s New Product of the Year
Here are the 10 finalists for The Scoop’s 2025 New Product of the Year. Voting in this readers’ choice contest will close on December 31. The winner will be named in a future magazine issue and online.
AGCO Air Max Precision F1/F2 Spreaders
The new Air Max Precision F1/F2 Spreaders feature more productivity and precision. Boom width is 90', and there’s also a 200% increase in section control, now with four sections. Air Max Spreaders provide the equipment retailers need to spread multiple products at variable rates across many customer fields. The F1 is a single bin with 365-cu.-ft. capacity; the F2 two-bin system has 355-cu.-ft. capacity. There’s a micro-bin option as well. An 880-pulse-per-rev-rate sensor allows applications as from 20 lb. to the acre up to 1,200 lb. to the acre.
BASF Zorina Fungicide
Zorina fungicide is a new white mold specialist for soybeans, dry beans and canola that offers a proactive approach that can help control today’s toughest disease challenges. As pressure from white mold continues to rise in broadleaf row crops, it can affect plant health and cause significant yield losses. When applied early, at late R1 to R2 in soybeans, Zorina fungicide can lay the foundation for proactive control of white mold, as well as provide extended protection against foliar diseases that show up later in the season. Zorina fungicide combines the efficacy of Endura fungicide with the long-lasting, broad-spectrum control of Revysol fungicide. Together, they are designed to help deliver reliable disease protection against white mold and other yield-limiting foliar diseases to help farmers maximize yield.
Indigo Ag biotrinsic Nemora FP
Biotrinsic Nemora FP is Indigo Ag’s second-generation, EPA-registered biological nematicide containing the proprietary active Pseudomonas oryzihabitans strain SYM23945. Applied as a seed treatment for soybeans, Nemora uses endophytic crop protection to multiply rapidly, providing full-season protection. Nemora reduces SCN egg hatch rate by up to 68%, according to Indigo research, and primes plant defenses for healthier, more resilient crop growth. It is a broad-spectrum nematicide and not race specific. Nemora recruits a diverse and specialized community of plant growth promoting bacteria in the soil, which can improve soil health. Nemora’s biological mode of action lets growers protect yield without harming plant health or soil health.
Koch Phosforce
Phosforce nutrient enhancer helps increase plant-available phosphorus in the soil, supporting optimal crop root systems, increased yield and improved soil fertility and health. A novel enzyme product, Phosforce also improves soil and crop agronomics, offers versatile and compatible application options, goes to work immediately in the soil and provides consistent activity for up to eight weeks. Phosforce contains the active ingredient, phosphodiesterase, which acts as a catalyst to break down organic forms of soil phosphorus into more plant-available molecules. Enzymes, such as the active ingredient, cause specific, targeted and predictable biochemical reactions. It offers a practical solution for unlocking the phosphorus crops need during key developmental stages.
Lallemand Lalrise Shine DS
Lalrise Shine DS is a dry seed treatment designed for one-step application in the planter box. It combines a patented seed finisher with Lallemand’s proprietary plant growth-promoting microbe technology. The product enhances crop establishment by improving root vigor and nutrient uptake. It actively solubilizes phosphorus from organic and inorganic sources, even under high or low soil-pH conditions. A 20-oz. bag treats one bulk box of corn, and the formulation is compatible with all seed treatments, including fungicides, insecticides and rhizobium inoculants. Lalrise Shine DS is primarily used on corn and dry beans. It’s also registered for application on soybeans, cereals, sorghum, sugar beets and sunflowers.
Fuel-Line from Meristem Crop Performance
Designed for retailer use, Fuel-Line improves efficiency in mobilization of dry fertilizer for MAP and DAP. It has integrated, biologically derived zinc and functional compounds to maximize fall fertility programs. Fuel-Line is a fertilizer biological enhancement powered by Ether Technology and specifically formulated for impregnation on dry fertilizer blends. It contains micronutrients and enzymes that help farmers get more out of their applied P and K fertilizers by increasing nutrient solubility and promoting root growth and function. By accelerating the breakdown of treated dry fertilizers and converting nutrients to a plant available form more readily, Fuel-Line enhances root growth, early-season plant development. Fuel-Line is effective across a broad range of plant and soil types.
Tidal Grow alignN
AlignN 18-0-0 is a foliar-applied nitrogen powered by Intelligent Leaf Delivery Technology. Designed for broadacre crops such as corn, wheat, cotton and canola, alignN delivers encapsulated urea nitrogen directly onto and into the leaf, maximizing absorption and metabolism. It delivers nitrogen precisely when and where it’s needed. Its encapsulated formula bonds electrostatically to the plant surface, reducing nitrogen loss from translocation, leaching, runoff and other challenging environmental conditions. This targeted approach supports improved crop performance to reach yield potential. Compatible with most herbicides, fungicides and nutritional inputs, it simplifies seasonlong logistics with low application rates.
RDX-N from Redox Bio-Nutrients
RDX-N from Redox Bio-Nutrients LLC helps crops unlock more performance from applied units of nitrogen while enhancing what’s already in their system. The patented, plant-active technology is a unique biostimulant; it’s not a stabilizer, not a nitrogen-fixing bacteria and not a biological. Instead, it’s powered by advanced botanical extracts to activate natural plant pathways that improve nitrogen uptake, assimilation and use from within. The result is greater nitrogen optimization. It also helps minimize nitrate toxicity, leaching and volatilization, creating a more efficient, resilient growing system. By supporting metabolic balance and redox-regulated pathways, crops stay more active and productive throughout the season, translating to stronger growth, improved quality and more consistent results.
WinField United SuperLock
SuperLock adjuvant aims to make herbicide applications simple and more effective. It delivers drift reduction technology and a high surfactant crop oil concentrate in one formulation. This combination helps ensure herbicides hit intended targets and penetrate plant surfaces to increase yields and profitability through better weed control. The product is also highly compatible across a wide variety of crops and tank-mix partners, and it is approved as a required oil system for tank-mix applications of Liberty Ultra and Enlist One herbicides. It also qualifies as a drift mitigation option within the EPA Herbicide Strategy. For retailers, it enables easier warehouse management by requiring less storage space and delivers retailers a multifunctional, differentiated solution to offer their customers.
Wilbur-Ellis BenVireo TerraLux
BenVireo TerraLux 10-0-0 is a liquid organic nitrogen (N) fertilizer. (7-0-0 formulation for California.) It brings an ammonium nitrate, 100% plant-available fertilizer to organic growers and provides them with an organic N source that offers flexible application options. The product aims to take the guesswork out of N availability, applying BenVireo TerraLux right when the crop needs it. This gives growers the ability to apply throughout the season and hopefully decrease overall soil N applications. BenVireo TerraLux is developed by capturing ammonia from digestate, significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Using a patented process, this waste stream is transformed into clean water and concentrated ammonia, which is then biologically stabilized into ammonium nitrate to create BenVireo TerraLux.
Vote for your top choice using this link. Voting is open until December 31, 2025.