By Rhonda Brooks and Margy Eckelkamp
New Seed Treatment Offers Novel Active Ingredient To Address Pythium and Phytophthora
Syngenta announces the registration of its new corn and soybean seed treatment, Vayantis systemic fungicide, by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The fungicide, which is based on the novel active ingredient picarbutrazox, is designed to protect seedlings from key blight and damping-off diseases, including Pythium and Phytophthora, in a variety of cropping systems. Read more.
Verdesian Launches Trident Nitrogen Stabilizer
With protection against volatilization, nitrification, and denitrification, Verdesian is launching Trident. The company says this product is built with its patent-pending combination of a co-polymer and solvent blend with time-tested active ingredients NBPT and DCD. Read more.
EPA Registration Expands Uses for AMVAC’s Impact Herbicide
AMVAC, a subsidiary of American Vanguard, is pleased to announce EPA label changes that expand the use of Impact Herbicide – The Standard in Corn Safety. Impact Herbicide has received federal EPA approval to apply up to 2 fl oz/A in either single or sequential applications in corn. This expanded use adds control of Texas panicum, field sandbur, and shattercane in tank mixes with atrazine, and increases the maximum size for control of yellow foxtail, fall panicum, woolly cupgrass, and broadleaf signalgrass. Read more.
Albaugh Introduces MiCrop Fungicide Powered by F Value Technology
MiCrop Fungicide Powered by F Value Technology will be launched across the United States this spring, targeting corn, soybeans, cereals and rice. MiCrop fungicide is an optimized formulation developed specifically for azoxystrobin and propiconazole that delivers enhanced performance and value. Albaugh’s MiCrop fungicide is powered by F Value Technology, which helps deliver micronized active ingredients to help enhance uptake, targeting disease control and leading to healthier plants to help maximize fungicide return on investment. Read more.
Marrone Bio Innovations Introduces First Product for Corn and Soybeans
Designed to be applied as a foliar treatment with conventional fungicides, Marrone Bio Innovations introduces Pacesetter. Pacesetter is a bio-based product with the active ingredient of Reynoutria sachalinensis 12%. Before this introduction for row crops, Marrone Bio focused its foliar plant health products on specialty crops. The company cites more than 90 Midwest field trials in 2020 showing Pacesetter plus fungicide out-yielding fungicide use alone. The average yield gains were 6.4 bu. in corn and 3.3. bu. in soybeans. Read more.
Vault IP Plus Approved For Use In Soybeans This Season
BASF formally introduced its new soybean seed treatment, Vault IP Plus, on Tuesday during the first day of the 2021 Commodity Classic. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the product for farmers’ use this season. Vault IP Plus features the rhizobia inoculant, Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Read more.
Three Herbicide-Tolerant Sorghum Technologies Finally Reach Farmers
Roughly two decades ago, sorghum producers began asking for a product that would control in-season grasses. This year, they finally received an answer in the form of three new herbicide-tolerant technologies, says Brent Bean, United Sorghum Checkoff Program director of agronomy. Read more.
Inzen-Tolerant Trait in Grain Sorghum Introduced For 2021 Season
Grass weeds that emerge with a sorghum crop or soon thereafter are notoriously difficult for farmers to control. Corteva Agriscience will start addressing that ongoing problem this season with four Pioneer brand sorghum seed varieties containing the new, non-transgenic Inzen trait. The trait allows for postemergence applications of nicosulfuron, an ALS-based grass herbicide the company is branding as Zest WDG. Read more.
New Biological Seed Treatment Tackles Sudden Death Syndrome
The yield toll from Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) in U.S. soybeans is often extreme. Losses of 20% to 80% or more are common, depending on the soybean variety and stage of crop development when the symptoms first appear. This season, farmers have access to a new, EPA-approved biological seed treatment, CeraMax, to prevent the soil-borne fungal pathogen that causes SDS, Fusarium virguliforme, from taking their soybean yield potential captive. Read more.
XtendFlex Soybean Technology Doubles Down On Yield, Weed Control
As farmers head to their fields to plant soybeans this spring, many will be trying the new XtendFlex varieties from Bayer Crop Science. This is the first season for full-scale commercial use by U.S. and Canadian farmers of the technology, which offers triple-stacked trait tolerance to dicamba, glyphosate and glufosinate herbicides. Company officials expect to see 20 million acres of XtendFlex soybeans planted in North America this season. Read more.
