New Products & Services
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...
Covid-19 testing kit for agribusinesses
Agricultural materials analyst Eurofins Agro UK has introduced a new testing kit for Covid-19 in agriculture to enable industry businesses to test for the virus on surfaces and equipment. “Covid-19 can survive on surfaces for 72 hours. The ability to test for it in...
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),...
ADM and Marfrig to make and market meat alternatives
Multinationals Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Marfrig Global Foods are partnering in a plant-based proteins business, initially servicing Brazil before exporting products further afield. Marfrig, based in Brazil, is a major world beef processor and the leading beef...
Liquid potassium product from Perstorp
Perstorp, the Swedish multinational specialty chemicals business best known in agriculture for feed additives, has entered the plant nutrition market through the launch of a chloride-free foliar potassium product. Amicult K42 is a liquid fertiliser component that is...