Crop Protection
This one-on-one with a leader in the biologicals industry details what’s next for this growing market.
A non-selective contact herbicide, Harpe targets multiple sites of action including plant cell and organelle membranes. The products have multiple modes of action.
The formal inquiry by the Canadian Competition Bureau started in October 2019.
The company said: “More than two weeks have passed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. From the outset, we have utterly condemned this brutal aggression against a sovereign country.”
In 2021, the agency reported it received 3,500 dicamba-related incident reports, including approximately 711 incidents in Minnesota and 528 incidents in Iowa.
The new MeloCon LC formulation offers: > Lower use rate > Easier storage with improved shelf life > Application flexibility
DEVELOPING: There’s a new issue getting inputs after the only potash mine in Belarus declared a force majeure.
“Last week—out of the blue—we found out the tariff codes for imported glyphosate acid were changed by Presidential proclamation as part of updating the HRS codes for 2022,” says Mike Massey with Ragan & Massey.
Multiple products (which currently spans insecticides, fungicides, nematicides, and micronutrients) can be applied simultaneously.
The liquid formula provides greater convenience in storage, handling and tank-mixing and allows for application flexibility when fumigant and conventional chemistries cannot be applied.
Delivering its biological payload via an easy-to-handle, single-liquid bladder, Lallemand’s LALFIX ProYield Liquid Soybean provides multi-action inoculation for soybeans.
Randy Canady, CEO at Atticus, agrees saying that 2021’s challenges were just a warmup for the market dynamics in 2022.
Jeff Tarsi credits the successful fall application across the Nutrien Ag Solutions retail footprint for lessening the potential pressure of the upcoming spring season.
The supply chain constraints are continuing to plague agriculture. As farmers work to make input decisions for the 2022 season, economists expect high input prices to persist through spring.
Who has what products where and when are key questions swirling for the 2022 growing season and its required crop inputs.
“We’re going to do it differently. We’re going to choose active ingredients we haven’t used before. We’re going to do different kinds of production activities,” says Allan Gray at Purdue University.
Bayer announced on November 9 that Liam Condon has resigned from his leadership role at Bayer Crop Science, and Rodrigo Santos will step into the position of president of the crop science division.
Helm is highlighting three strategic product developments it has made that has it as a willing and ready supplier right now for ag retailers and farmers.
Leaders at Helm are reporting where it used to take 30 days to get product from China/Asia, now it’s at least two months–if you can get it on a ship and container pricing is up 10 fold.
“What happens in China will have profound effects in the short term,” says Samuel Taylor, vice president of farm input analysis at Robobank.
Andrew Thomas has been named the CEO of Alltech Crop Science. He brings to Alltech more than 30 years of international management experience and proven success in the agri-food and seed industries.
These new products include solutions for common herbicides concerns such as volatility, drift and water conditioning and are made specifically for glufonsinate, glyphosase and dicamba herbicides.
In a partnership announced in mid-June, Alltech Crop Science and Helm Agro formed a new way to bring biologicals to market.
This upcoming season will be the first for Novozymes BioAg to return to a direct-to-customer relationship with retailers. The North American business results in almost 1/3 of the company’s sales revenues.
Meet “Annie.” This robot being used by Corteva Agriscience is the result of a partnership with Boston Dynamics and Trimble.
Specific to row crops, biologicals have a 11% share of use in 2020 with sales of $400 million. By 2030, this is projected to rise to a 16% share and $1.9 billion in sales.
This year marks the company’s 20th anniversary as well as a rebrand from Certis USA to Certis Biologicals. Through its legacy companies, Certis traces its historic roots back more than 70 years.
By applying proven pharma innovations to plants, Enko cuts the discovery time in half–arming farmers faster with tools to address evolving needs.
ACC occurs naturally in plants. Once applied to the crop, the active ingredient in Accede is quickly converted to ethylene using the plant’s natural biochemical pathways.
Greg Page, Chairman of Corteva: “Over the past several years, Jim guided the creation and launch of Corteva as a leading, independent global agriculture company and he will leave the company on a very strong footing”