FMC Corporation Extends Partnership with Monsanto for Roundup Ready PLUS Crop Management Solutions

Daniel Jacobs Posted by Dan Jacobs|1 September 2015

FMC Corporation and Monsanto Company will continue their participation in the Roundup Ready PLUS Crop Management Solutions platform. The agreement includes FMC’s Authority brand sulfentrazone herbicides, and adds FMC’s Capture LFR insecticide as a soil-applied insecticide for corn in the Monsanto recommendation platform as a qualifying brand.

When launched, Roundup Ready 2 Xtend Soybeans will be the first biotech-stacked soybean trait with tolerance to both dicamba and glyphosate. The patented Roundup Ready 2 Xtend trait is built upon the high-yielding Genuity Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybean trait technology. FMC’s Authority herbicide brands provide broad-spectrum control of weeds on a wide range of soil types, geographies and weed conditions. The Authority herbicide brand platform utilizes several premixes to provide pre-emergence weed control included within Roundup Ready PLUS Crop Management Solutions.

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“Authority brand herbicides provide high-yield confidence to growers through superior, season-long weed control,” said Marc Hullebroeck, vice president, North America Crop and Innovation, FMC Agricultural Solutions. “When Roundup Ready 2 Xtend Soybeans are launched, this system, along with post applications of Roundup Xtend or Xtendimax herbicides, pending regulatory approvals, within the new Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System, will also help growers manage resistant weed situations by combining multiple modes of action.”

Monsanto anticipates the new Roundup Ready 2 Xtend trait technology will be available to soybean growers in 2016.

Learn more about the FMC and Monsanto partnership.

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