Following the recent signing of a distribution agreement with Agrauxine, SAN Agrow crop protection company announces the launch of Duralev™, a breakthrough preventative foliar fungicide that strengthens the company’s sustainable solutions portfolio ahead of the 2026 season. Duralev represents a new class of crop protection tools. Unlike conventional fungicides, it is composed of a non-living organism that activates the plant’s …
Alltech Breaks Ground on Kentucky Biofertilizer Facility
Global agriculture company Alltech broke ground Tuesday in Kentucky on a new $4.6 million, 15,000-square-foot biological fertilizers and crop inputs manufacturing facility to help reduce farmers’ reliance on imported, synthetic inputs. Located on the campus of Alltech’s global headquarters, the facility will be the company’s first U.S. manufacturing plant dedicated solely to producing crop science technologies. Modeled after Alltech Crop …
Summit Agro USA Unveils BioPowered™ Portfolio
Summit Agro USA today announced the launch of its BioPowered™ product portfolio, marking a major evolution in the company’s lineup of innovative crop protection and field health solutions. “Today’s action aligns with our mission to help growers maximize profitability by improving both crop and field health,” said Justin Gayliard, CEO of Summit Agro USA. “This forward-looking strategy was honed through …
Prepare for National Nematode Day
National Nematode Day is just a week away, named by the SCN Coalition to be October 6 this year, with the goal to increase soybean farmers’ awareness of soybean cyst nematode (SCN) – the No. 1 yield-grabbing pathogen of the soybean crop in North America. As part of the effort, Syngenta Seedcare and The SCN Coalition will be holding a …
CruiserMaxx Vibrance Elite Seed Treatment
Syngenta is offering a new cereal seedcare package that should be available for the 2026 growing season. The new CruiserMaxx Vibrance Elite Seed Treatment premix includes five fungicides and an insecticide, bringing two modes of action to combat early season cereal diseases. “What’s really neat about this is that this will be our first introduction of Vayantis® into the cereal …
Yara North America Appoints Sabine Schröder as President
Yara North America is pleased to announce the appointment of Sabine Schröder to President, overseeing the U.S. and Canada business, effective immediately. Schröder, who has made significant contributions over 18 years with Yara, has served as interim President of North America since January 2025. Previously, she served as Vice President of Commercial Excellence for Crop Nutrition in the Americas. She …
Performance Nutrition Expands Urea Phosphite Technology
Performance Nutrition has expanded its Prudent line of urea phosphite-based fertilizers with the commercial launch of two new products now available through Performance Nutrition’s distribution partners throughout the United States. PRUDENT AG and PRUDENT SI expand upon Performance Nutrition’s urea phosphite technology platform that provides superior phosphite mobility for better root and foliar absorption, improved resilience and abiotic stress tolerance, …
Syngenta ROI Calculator Shows Value of Fungicides
When it comes to return on investment for fungicides, on-line tools show consistently high ROI for Syngenta’s Miravis® Neo. The Crop Protection Network’s Corn Fungicide ROI Calculator is one tool that shares real-world results from university corn fungicide trials, allowing farmers to calculate the potential ROI for corn fungicide application across a variety of user-defined factors. Additionally, Syngenta announced the …
Agrauxine Teams with Syngenta to Supply Ornamental Market
Syngenta Crop Protection and Agrauxine by Lesaffre have signed an agreement to private label and exclusively distribute products STROVEQ® and SPREXIMA® in the U.S. ornamental market. STROVEQ is a systemic resistance inducer and SPREXIMA is a biofungicide and both utilize Agrauxine’s unique strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast. STROVEQ is a systemic resistance Inducer (SRI) that acts preventively to prepare plants …
Food and Ag Groups Express MAHA Concerns
Over 300 agricultural and food organizations have signed on to a letter calling for sound science and data to be used by the Make America Healthy Again Commission in upcoming evaluations for products essential to food and agriculture. The letter, sent to the heads of Health and Human Services, USDA, and EPA, specifically focuses on the importance of pesticides, biotechnology, …