Crop Protection
Suffolk consultant scoops Orme shield
Beth Duchesne, a senior agribusiness consultant at Bidwells, has won the annual Barrie Orme Shield for the highest score in the last year’s BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection. She worked with trainer Debbie Wedge, from Chelmsford and West Essex Training Group, while...
Bayer’s $10bn to settle Roundup litigation
Agrochemical manufacturer Bayer is to spend over $10 billion in settling current and future legal cases over its Roundup (glyphosate) herbicide, as well as smaller amounts on dicamba and PCBs in water cases. The company is to pay $10.1 billion to $10.9bn to resolve...
BASIS adds remote point of sale audits for rodenticides
The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) believes that remote auditing of point of product sale practices is essential to protect the reputation of the sector as it comes up for review. UK Rodenticide Stewardship Regime is preparing for a review by its...
New fruit acaricide from BASF
BASF has launched Nealta, an acaricide based on the new active ingredient cyflumetofen, which is from Group 25, a unique group of insecticides. It will kill all stages of the mites’ life cycle: eggs, immature stages and adults; whilst being compatible with beneficial...
New BASF tool for blackgrass control
BASF hopes to have approval for a new pre-emergence blackgrass herbicide, Luximo, in time for the autumn 2021 drilling season, subject to regulatory approvals. The company’s blackgrass testing programme, across 122 farms, showed that resistance to existing chemistry...
Syngenta’s Vibrance Duo seed treatment cleared for barley
Syngenta has secured approval for the use of its Vibrance Duo seed treatment on barley to help protect crop yield and quality from seed and soil borne fungal disease. Vibrance Duo, an equal mix of the active ingredients sedaxane and fludioxonil (25 grams/litre each),...