5 Issues Changing the Crop Protection Industry

Projects focus on areas including biological controls, tools to kill the Asian citrus psyllid, root sampling and testing strategy, training dogs to detect infected trees.

Product is registered for the control of blight in tomato and potato, downy mildew in lettuce, and gray mold in grapes.

Crop protection sales expected to be stable, but wholesale change is almost certain.

Expanded use label brings growers tool for managing powdery mildew, downy mildew.

Utah-based company acquires entomology division of Bio-Serv Inc.

Soybean trait continues to move through regulatory processes as the first trait to be submitted for approvals that expresses two Bt proteins.

Company sees positive outlook for 2015.

Crafting a “softer” pest management program for sustainability-minded retailers and processors is likely in your future – if it’s not here already. An increasing number of growers and crop advisers are finding that a mix of biocontrol products and conventional products helps fill the bill, especially late in the season when maximum residue levels (MRLs) are of greatest concern.

As Mozambique’s agricultural market continues to grow, the country offers crop input companies enormous opportunity.