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 insecticide. Products powered by PLINAZOLIN technology are available for purchase under the following brand names:
Opello™: This soil-applied insecticide provides revolutionary control of corn rootworm, consistently helping corn yield up to 27 bu/A more than untreated, while its highly tank-mix compatible formulation allows growers to leave equipment clogs and slowdowns in the past.
Equento®: This insecticide seed treatment offers a flexible and compatible option to terminate wireworms and suppress other below-ground pests, ultimately improving plant stand and helping a grower’s bottom line.
Vertento®: One of the toughest insect pest fighters in its class, this foliar-applied insecticide for cotton, peanuts and onions delivers a fast-acting, knockout punch to insect pests including plant bugs, thrips and mites.
Incipio™: With impressive residual strength to take the guesswork out of insect control, this foliar-applied insecticide for brassica, leafy, fruiting vegetable and cucurbit crops delivers a heavy-duty takedown of tough insect pests.
Zivalgo™: This foliar-applied insecticide can lead the way for potato and tree fruit insect pest management with unmatched, broad-spectrum control of Colorado potato beetles, codling moth, citrus thrips, spider mites and more.
Syngenta National Executive Agronomist Craig Abell gave a preview of what Opello™ soil-applied insecticide with PLINAZOLIN® technology had to offer at the 2025 Farm Progress Show way back in August.
“It’s an in-furrow application at planting time. It’s very flexible to use. You can use water as a carrier. You can use starter fertilizer, pop-up fertilizer. We haven’t found anything that it’s not compatible with as of yet,” said Abell. “As we look at existing insecticides and also traits, this is a tool to take pressure off of both of those.”
Learn more in this interview from Farm Progress Show.
FPS25 Interview with Craig Abell, Syngenta agronomist (3:16)
Animal Ag News 12/4
The Latest from AgGateway
The AgGateway annual meeting last month in Clearwater, Florida was a great time for members to get caught up on what the organization has accomplished in the past year.
Chief Technology Officer Jim Wilson says a big focus of AgGateway in the past year has been the growth of the ADAPT Standard, which is being adopted throughout the industry. “We are producing resources that can benefit anybody trying to make data flow better throughout the industry,” said Wilson.
Interview with Jim Wilson (2:27)
AgGateway Portfolio Manager Ben Craker provided an update at the meeting on all things MODUS. “Since AgGateway took over stewardship of that, we’ve been working on updating a bunch of the controlled vocabularies in there,” said Craker. “So the main idea is when you send a soil sample into a lab, you know exactly what test the lab used to get the results for how much phosphorus was in your soil. That way when you come back three years later, you make sure you’re getting an apples-to-apples comparison.”
Craker says they just this year kicked off a working group on Field Operations Controlled Vocabulary. “Everybody’s got their own crop list, nobody’s is the same. One combine might call it maize, one combine might call it corn. Then you got different levels of specificity in there. We came up with a way to really kind of share that crop information and we’re now trying to apply that same component model to field operations,” Craker said.
Learn more in this interview.
AgGateway Portfolio Manager Ben Craker (6:35)
Industry Ag News 12/1
Giving Thanks – ZimmComm 2025
Dear Friends,
We are grateful this year more than ever for the wonderful friends we have made over the years and our travels.
May God bless you with all good things in abundance during this holiday season, the new year and beyond.
Peace and glad tidings,
Chuck and Cindy Zimmerman
Congrats to NAFB Winners
Meghan Grebner was named Farm Broadcaster of the Year. Grebner, an 18-year media veteran, is broadcast supervisor at Brownfield Ag News, where she oversees the quality and content of the network’s news and radio programming.
C.J. Miller, assistant news director for Hoosier Ag Today and Michigan Ag Today, received the Horizon Award, which annually recognizes an outstanding broadcaster in his or her first five years of professional broadcasting work.
Winning the prestigious Doan Award was Michelle Rook, national news and market reporter for Ag Day TV and U.S. Farm Report at Farm Journal.
Veteran broadcasters Janet Adkison and Gale Cunningham were honored on Thursday evening as 2025 NAFB Hall of Fame inductees. Adkison, a longtime broadcaster who is now director of public affairs and advocacy for the Missouri Farm Bureau, served as NAFB president in 2014. Cunningham, ag director for the Central Illinois Multimedia Group, was the association’s president in 2021.· Herb Plambeck Award, recognizing top creative farm broadcast advertising, went to Mick Kjar, AgNews 890 (single ad category) for the North Dakota Livestock Alliance Annual Summit; and Susan Littlefield, American Ag Network (series), for Farming Minds: Mental Health in Agriculture.
· Broadcast Contest Awards (Audio) first-place winners: Marketcast (Susan Littlefield, American Ag Network); Newscast (Bryce Doeschot, Nebraska); Feature (Bryce Doeschot, Nebraska); Interview (Parker James).
· Broadcast Contest Awards (Video): First-place winners: Marketcast (AgDay TV); Newscast (Tyne Morgan); Feature (Tyne Morgan); Interview (AgDay TV).
· NAFB News Service Awards: Editor’s Choice (Joanna Guza, Midwest Communications); Editor’s Choice for Exceptional Merit (Jesse Allen, Agriculture of America); Excellence in Ag Reporting (Parker James, Your Ag Network).
Precision Ag News 11/25
GROWMARK Brings Leadership to AgGateway
As one of North America’s agricultural cooperative systems, serving more than 250,000 individual farmers, GROWMARK is one of the most active companies involved in AgGateway.
GROWMARK Senior Agronomy Portfolio Technology Manager Zach Leiser says AgGateway’s work is critically important to what they are able to do for their farmer members. “Because our network of companies is so vast, we’ve got a lot of different colored equipment within companies, across companies, and we want to do everything we can to make sure that if we capture something in one piece of equipment, that we can easily transfer that to another one to be utilized for whatever operation needs to take place,” said Leiser during an interview at the recent AgGateway annual meeting.
Leiser has been personally involved at AgGateway over the years with field boundaries and the new Field Boundary: Obstacles working group. And so it’s trying to help better define what are the things that are going to impact that operation? And what can we do to help facilitate conversations to make sure that we’ve got the big OEM manufacturers working together so ultimately our lives become easier?”
GROWMARK has a number of staff members involved in AgGateway, including Jacob Crow, GROWMARK’s IT Portfolio Director, who was just elected Chair of the AgGateway Board of Directors at the annual meeting.
Listen to an interview with Leiser:
Zach Leiser, GROWMARK (4:54)





