UN WHO field trials on Bayer CropScience’s insecticidal mosquito net, LifeNet, have confirmed that it exceeds the requirement of effectiveness after 20 washes. Tests in Tanzania, Benin and India showed that LifeNet was effective after 30 washes, with regeneration after washing within one day, Bayer points out. LifeNet incorporates the pyrethroid insecticide, deltamethrin, in polypropylene fibres. The UN WHO issued an interim recommendation earlier this year (Agrow No 615, p 28).
France has approved Syngenta's oilseed rape seed treatment insecticide/fungicide, Cruiser OSR (thiamethoxam 280 g/litre + fludioxonil 8 g/litre + metalaxyl-M 32.3 g/litre), reports newswire Agrisalon.com. The decision is based on a favourable report submitted by the national agency for health security, the Anses, in October. It concluded that the seed treatment met all safety requirements. France has been providing short-term provisional approvals for Cruiser for use on maize each year since ...
The US agrochemical company, Gowan (Yuma, Arizona), has received approval for its fungicide, Gavel 75DF (zoxamide 8.3% + mancozeb 66.7%), in the state of California. It is for the control of late blight (Phytophthora infestans) and downy mildew on potatoes, tomatoes, grapevines and cucurbits. Gowan acquired the zoxamide business from Dow AgroSciences in 2008 (Agrow No 548, p 1). Gavel has been registered in other parts of the US since 2001.
The ISO Technical Committee on Common Names for Pesticides has provisionally approved three new active ingredient names. Bayer CropScience’s insecticide, flupyradifurone, is being developed under the code name, BYI02960, according to the Compendium of Pesticide Common Names (CPCN). Bayer’s triazinylsulfonylurea herbicide, iofensulfuron, will be sold as the sodium salt, iofensulfuron-sodium (BCS-AA10579). The insecticide, flometoquin, from Japanese companies Meiji Seika and Nippon Kayaku is ...
Bayer CropScience has been granted registration in Greece for its broad-spectrum post-emergence herbicide, Laudis (tembotrione + isoxadifen-ethyl safener). It is a suspension concentrate formulation for thecontrol of grasses and broadleaf weeds on maize. The authorities have granted a three-year approval. Bayer intends to introduce the herbicide in 2012. Tembotrione received its first registration in Austria as Laudis in 2007 (Agrow No 504, p 17).The active ingredient’s provisional EU approval ...
Brazilian joint venture Iharabras has launched the first fungicidal seed treatment for the control of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. It has introduced the suspension concentrate formulation, Certeza (thiophanate-methyl + fluazinam), this month for use on soybeans and kidney beans. The disease affects 2.5 million ha in Brazil across various crops and 2 million ha of soybeans alone. The product was approved for use on beans and cotton. The seed treatment guarantees good fastness, controlling various ...
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DuPont seed subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International has received approval from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for its genetically modified insect-resistant “refuge-in-a-bag” (RIB) maize, Optimum AcreMax. Each bag of seed blends 95% of DuPont/Dow AgroSciences’ corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis)-resistant Herculex 1 (TC1507) pyramided with Monsanto’s YieldGard Corn Borer (MON810) with 5% non-Bt maize to serve as the corn borer refuge. All the seed is tolerant to the herbicide, glyphosate. ...
Monsanto has made a significant expansion to its genetically modified maize and soybean portfolio in the US. It will offer some 60 insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant Genuity SmartStax maize hybrids this year, which is about double the number available in the 2010 launch year. More than 45 Genuity VT Double Pro maize hybrids will be available in the Corn Belt this year, representing a three-fold increase on last year. Over 90 Genuity VT Triple Pro hybrids will be available in the south and ...
BASF is to launch two new biorational pesticides in Brazil as it seeks to widen its offering in the sector, the company’s marketing director for crop protection in Latin America Fabio Del Sistia told the business newspaper, Valor Economico, this month. The products include a biofungicide and a pheromone. The company is in the “investigation phase” to bring more such products onto the Brazilian market. “BASF sees IPM as the preferred pest control solution,” Mr Del Sistia told the newspaper. BASF ...
Bayer CropScience plans to launch the Bacillus firmus-based bionematicide seed treatment, Votivo, in the US in 2011. It will conduct on-farm trials with select growers and seed companies next year. Bayer acquired the B firmus technology among assets of the Israeli biopesticide company, AgroGreen, earlier this year (Agrow No 565, p 2). Votivo suppresses attacks from early season nematodes by forming a “living barrier” of bacteria around the roots of soybeans, maize and cotton, Bayer points out. ...
