Sumitomo Chemical Group Acquires Subsidiary of COPYR Engaged in Natural Pyrethrin-Based Plant Protection Business

High-load Spirotetramat formulation powered by Ayalon technology provides faster, deeper plant uptake.

Tagros Chemicals’ flubendiamide acquisition from Bayer signals a sharper global distribution strategy, strengthening market reach and customer access worldwide.

Tagros will acquire Solo and Mixture Formulations related to the active ingredient, along with a comprehensive suite of business assets.

AgbioInvestor highlights 2025 crop protection launches across Central and South America, featuring insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and biological innovations.

Six decades after launch, chlorpyrifos defies bans as courts, chemistry, and farmers revive a controversial pesticide worldwide amid regulatory upheaval.

Landmark agreement is first ag-pharma collaboration for both companies.

Gharda CEO Ram Seethapathi outlines how generics reshaped chlorpyrifos — from pricing power to global access — and what it means for future crop protection.

Growers can purchase the new active ingredient for the 2026 growing season as a seed treatment, soil-applied insecticide or foliar-applied insecticide.

AgbioInvestor Partner Derek Oliphant unpacks chlorpyrifos’s shifting global role, tightening regulations, and the emerging chemistries set to reshape insect control.