SAP SE and Syngenta today announced a new partnership to accelerate AI-assisted innovation across Syngenta’s global operations. The partnership will embed artificial intelligence at the core of Syngenta’s enterprise, modernizing operations and enabling accelerated innovation through advanced data analytics across the business — from manufacturing and supply chain to grower-facing products and services. Agriculture continues to navigate challenges driven by …
Syngenta Spotlights New Insecticide at Cotton Conferences
Syngenta’s PLINAZOLIN® technology just received registration from the Environmental Protection Agency last month and is now available for use, subject to state approvals, powering five separate insecticide products including Vertento® for cotton. Tripp Walker, Syngenta agronomic service rep, gave a presentation at the Beltwide Cotton Consultants Conference Wednesday in San Antonio on the new foliar-applied insecticide for cotton, peanuts and …
Syngenta Announces EPA Approval for PLINAZOLIN Technology
Syngenta’s PLINAZOLIN® technology has received registration from the Environmental Protection Agency and is now available for use, subject to state approvals. PLINAZOLIN technology will power five separate insecticide products for use in corn, cotton, vegetables, tree fruit, cereals and more. Growers can purchase the new active ingredient for the 2026 growing season as a seed treatment, soil-applied insecticide or foliar-applied …
Syngenta Turns 25
Syngenta is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month, created in 2000 with the merger of Novartis and AstraZeneca, and built on a legacy extending back more than 250 years to the Swiss chemical company Geigy founded in 1758. Today, Syngenta Crop Protection includes a robust portfolio of approximately 37 seed treatments, 54 herbicides, 44 fungicides and 21 insecticides, with several …
Syngenta Opens Cropwise Digital Platform to Developers
Syngenta announced this week the opening of its CROPWISE™ AI-powered platform for farmers to third-party developers worldwide. The launch of the Cropwise Open Platform is designed to accelerate the digital transformation of agriculture by enabling innovators to integrate advanced agronomic models into new tools and applications — helping farmers benefit from smarter, connected agricultural technologies. New research from IPSOS, conducted …
EPA Approves Victrato® Seed Treatment
Syngenta’s Victrato® seed treatment has received registration from the Environmental Protection Agency for soybeans and cotton to protect against plant-parasitic nematodes and diseases. Victrato will be available to farmers the rest of 2025 in preparation for the 2026 planting season, subject to state approvals. Syngenta Seedcare Technical Product Lead Dale Ireland was anticipating approval of Victrado at the 2025 Farm …
CruiserMaxx Vibrance Elite Receives EPA Registration
Syngenta’s latest offering for cereals, CruiserMaxx® Vibrance® Elite seed treatment, has been registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and will now be available for use in the upcoming growing season. The fungicide and insecticide seed treatment premix is an upgraded formulation of CruiserMaxx Vibrance Cereals designed to deliver early-season disease and insect protection. Syngenta spotlighted the product at the …
Syngenta Biologicals are Booming
Syngenta continues to grow its biologicals business to meet the increased demand for biocontrols, biostimulants and nutrient efficiency products around the world. Just this year, Syngenta Biologicals entered into several strategic collaborations to accelerate product development this year and opened a new facility in Orangeburg, South Carolina to produce 16,000 tons of biostimulants annually. “Syngenta Biologicals builds upon the track …
Tendovo Redefines Soybean Weed Management
At the 2025 Farm Progress Show, Syngenta Crop Protection Agronomist Matt Geiger shared information about Tendovo, the flagship pre-emergent soybean herbicide for that area. “You need to start clean. You don’t want to have weeds at the time you plant or right after the beans come up. You want to stay clean early. Then you put that residual down to …
GHX Golden Harvest MaxScript
Visitors to the 2025 Farm Progress Show had the opportunity to learn more about GHX Golden Harvest MaxScript, a personalized seed placement tool that not only gives a field by field seed recommendation, but also a planting population recommendation that’s tailored to the farmer’s preferences. “We’ll be blending that local agronomic expertise of Golden Harvest with the digital agronomy insight …