Monsanto Reduces Roundup Pricing

Posted by Matt Hopkins|23 September 2009

Monsanto is cutting the price on its Roundup brand agricultural herbicides, reports Farm Industry News. “We will be reducing the price of both Roundup
PowerMax and Roundup WeatherMax by up to 50%, effective immediately,” says Matt Helms, marketing manager for Monsanto crop protection division. Global supply and demand issues recently saw glyphosate prices fall dramatically from 2008 and 2009 price levels back down to 2006 and 2007 levels.

Monsanto says it has the capacity at its Luling, Lousiana, US, plant to increase domestic production and has made investments to increase mining capacity for glyphosate raw materials in southeastern Idaho, US.

Joe Sandbrink, technology development manager for Monsanto crop protection division, encourages the use of residuals in tank mixes when needed. “Our Roundup Rewards program provides incentives to producers who use other chemistries in areas where multiple modes of action are necessary for weed control. That program will continue to be offered.”