BASF’s The Science Behind Soybeans seminar at the 2010 Commodity Classic on Wednesday was focused on how the BASF Crop Protection portfolio for soybeans can help growers achieve higher yields, and how BASF is always looking to the future and what growers will want tomorrow.
“The soybean market has great potential for growth but yields haven’t increased that much in the last few years so what we really see is an opportunity is to get more from every acre by using some different practices and new technologies such as the new Kixor herbicide technology that BASF has,” said Paul Rea, Director of BASF US Crop Protection Division.
BASF Technical Service Manager Rick Chamblee says Kixor, which is the active ingredient in a number of new products that were just approved for use in this country last fall, is a great example of how BASF looked ahead to anticipate grower needs in the future. “When we started working on the Kixor family of products 9-10 years ago, glyphosate tolerant weeds were not even on the horizon,” Rick said. In fact, only one weed was resistant in the United States, today there are six broadleaf weeds that are tolerant to glyphosate that are commonly found in soybean production.
Not content to rest on their laurels, BASF has NINE active ingredients in the pipeline for the next FOUR years, expecting to introduce 28 new products. Compare that to 29 new products in the last nine years! Find out more in my back to back interviews with Paul and Rick in the player below.
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