Eye in the sky 

By: Jeff Ryan

Cropcam is an unmanned aerial vehicle with a GPS-guided autopilot that is a used to take high-resolution digital aerial images. It is launched by hand...

Broadleaf control for cereals 

DOW AGROSCIENCES has received U.S. registration for florasulam, a new active ingredient for broadleaf weed control in cereal grains....

Stress relief 

SYNGENTA CROP Protection and AgroFresh are working together to develop and commercialize Invinsa — a product the companies describe as a unique postemergence spray that promises to protect field crops during extended periods of extreme temperatures, drought and other stresses...

New for weed control 

By: By Mark Moore

Corn and soybean producers will have some new and a few updated products for weed control in 2008. Corn seems to be the major beneficiary of the new herbicides,...

Reformulating Bayer 

By: By Jodie Wehrspann

Bayer Ag, a name known for its original brand of aspirin, is ready to take on a new kind of headache that is flaring up on crop farms: glyphosate resistance....

Weeds rebound 

By: By Mark Moore

If Growers don't protect current weed-control chemistries, they may someday find their fields infested with resistant weeds with virtually no way to control...

Products: Convenient soybean inoculants, Flexible soybean herbicide, New seed treatment 

Three new soybean inoculants for the 2008 growing season are available from Becker Underwood. The Vault inoculants are produced...

Two-pass weed control 

Dow AgroSciences adds to the 2008 corn herbicide market a new product designed to help stem weed resistance problems. SureStart is soil-applied herbicide with a flexible application time ranging from...

Tailored-to-fit weed control 

By: By Karl Ohm

New glyphosate-tolerance trait from DuPont will increase the number of weed-control options for your fields...

Giant leap for GENERICS 

By: By Mark Moore

The year 2000 was a watershed event for agricultural chemical companies. That year, Monsanto's patent to its popular Roundup expired, and suppliers jumped...