Crop Protection
When introducing Hydrovant, the team at Corbet Scientific says it aims to bring a whole new category of adjuvants to the market.
In late July, Atticus announced EcoCore, an expanding portfolio of pest management products serving a growing number of markets including turf and ornamental, greenhouse and nursery, vegetation management and aquatic.
Both parties agree that valid intellectual property rights are important to the industry and should be respected. Atticus will continue to offer for sale its azoxystrobin products.
First commercial sales of the FMC pheromone products will be launched as early as 2024. BioPhero has five products in its pipeline with launch dates in the next five years.
Supply chain issues and concerns about sourcing inputs for the 2022 growing season prompted more farmers to try e-commerce for pricing inputs this year as FBN says their website saw an uptick in traffic and sales.
Brett Bruggeman says their business starts with the customer, and he’s a believer in segmentation as such identifying customers by appetite to growth, transparency with data, and willingness to advocate.
Forecasting the demand and facilitating the flow of crop inputs has changed the way these businesses are operating.
Three requests for information were published by the Federal Register. The requests outlined information about competition in regard to producers’ access to fertilizer, seed and ag inputs, as well as food retail.
“Drift can never be eliminated; however, it can be minimized if pesticides are applied under favorable weather conditions and by adopting proven drift reduction strategies,” says IFCA.
Bayer announced it will close the joint venture created between Leaps by Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks in 2017. And moving forward, Ginkgo Bioworks will become a multi-year microbial strategic partner with Bayer.
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.