Corteva Introduces Two Preemergence Soybean Herbicides for 2025
Corteva Agriscience is bringing two new herbicides — Kyber Pro and Sonic Boom — to market. Both preemergence products will offer multiple modes of action and extended residual activity.
Kyber Pro and Sonic Boom herbicides join Enversa herbicide as new soybean residual options from Corteva that will be available in the 2025 growing season. Corteva says both of the new herbicides will fit well in a program approach to season-long weed control, especially with Enlist E3 soybeans.
Key features of Kyber Pro herbicide include:
- Three proven modes of action — metribuzin, flumioxazin and pyroxasulfone — for control of more than 50 broadleaf and grass weeds, including Palmer amaranth and waterhemp.
- Up to six weeks of residual activity
- The flexibility to be tank-mixed and applied with burndown herbicides prior to planting or with other preemergence herbicides.
- A convenient liquid premix formulation that has been enhanced for simplified in-season mixing, handling and storage.
Key features of Sonic Boom herbicide include:
- two modes of action — metribuzin and sulfentrazone — effective against difficult, resistant broadleaves, including waterhemp, Palmer amaranth, marestail and kochia.
- several weeks of control to keep weeds at bay until postemergence applications can be made.
- a convenient liquid premix formulation that can be easily mixed with a variety of tank-mix partners for efficient applications.
- the ability to be applied at different times, including at fall or spring burndown, preplant or preemergence.
Kyber Pro and Sonic Boom herbicides have received federal registration. State registrations are in progress. Kyber Pro herbicide is currently available for purchase in states where it has already received state registration. Sonic Boom herbicide is expected to be available for purchase in early 2025.
Yara Launches YaraAmplix Biostimulant Portfolio
Yara North America is launching the YaraAmplix biostimulant portfolio in the United States and Canada, which is designed to enhance crop resilience, nutrient uptake, and overall crop quality while promoting healthier soils and better adaptability to environmental stressors.
Several products within the portfolio feature patented or patent-pending formulations. One of the first featured products Yara is bringing to customers is YaraAmplix Procote Optimize, which retailers can use to coat growers’ dry fertilizer with biostimulants.
Yara is also expanding its manufacturing and formulation capabilities with a new facility dedicated to breakthroughs in biostimulant technology.
Raven Becomes an Official Razor Tracking Distributor
Razor Tracking has announced Raven as an official distributor in an effort to enhance the overall fleet tracking capabilities and efficiencies for mutual customers.
Raven leadership says Razor Tracking’s services have been helping Raven customers gain better fleet visibility for years. As an official distributor, customers will have access to the full Razor Tracking portfolio.
“As technology grows in agriculture, this new business model makes it easier for Raven and Slingshot customers,” said Eric Mauch, managing partner of Razor Tracking. “The access to our entire product offerings of in-vehicle tracking devices and dash cameras, and more options in fleet tracking makes for an improved experience.”
FMC Corporation and Albaugh LLC Settle Patent Infringement Dispute
FMC Corporation has reached a settlement agreement with Albaugh LLC resolving patent infringement litigation related to the manufacture of chlorantraniliprole, FMC’s leading insecticide ingredient branded as Rynaxypyr active.
The settlement was reached following FMC’s filing of a patent infringement lawsuit against Albaugh in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division. In the lawsuit, FMC alleged that Albaugh imported, made, or used products containing chlorantraniliprole made in violation of FMC’s U.S. patent rights protecting FMC’s processes for manufacturing chlorantraniliprole. As part of the agreement, Albaugh has agreed to pay FMC for a license to FMC’s patented technology used in the manufacture of chlorantraniliprole for agricultural uses in the United States.
FMC maintains an extensive patent estate for its chlorantraniliprole technology in the U.S., China, India, and other key agricultural markets worldwide. The company markets several products containing chlorantraniliprole, including Altacor, Coragen, Elevest, Prevathon and Vantacor insect control.
The specific terms of the settlement agreement were not disclosed.
