Pesticides

Learn about the latest pesticide products and application methods to protect your crops. This section includes information about herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides.

EPA approves Katagon corn herbicide?for 2021

Katagon aims at broadleaf weeds plus enhanced grass control when teamed with atrazine.

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Gowan Company buys active ingredients prosulfuron and primisulfuron from Syngenta

Purchase includes two Group 2 postemergence herbicides.

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Helena to debut Antares Complete soybean herbicide in 2021

Antares Complete nixes early weeds with residual control, say Helena officials.

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Pork Powerhouses

Overall health of pigs improving every year, says sow management clinic

By Pork Powerhouses

VMC manages 39,000 sows in Iowa and Missouri.

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Women in Agriculture

Beef business grows with the neighborhood

By Women in Agriculture

In an area of North Carolina that grows houses, one family is growing their beef business so they can keep farming.

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Machinery Insider

Expanding planter lines

By Machinery Insider

AGCO introduces an entirely new planter line while Case IH expands existing planter configurations.

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Bayer launches Roundup PowerMAX 3 herbicide

Roundup PowerMAX 3 features a new proprietary surfactant blend.

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HELM Agro US launches Reviton herbicide

Reviton is a nonselective herbicide for prelant burndown and desiccation use in corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat.

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Kyber herbicide for soybeans set for 2021 from Corteva Agriscience

Kyber herbicide targets problem soybean weeds including Palmer amaranth, waterhemp and common ragweed.

Kyber herbicide targets problem soybean weeds including Palmer amaranth, waterhemp and giant ragweed.

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AMVAC?releases two corn herbicides for 2021

Company officials say both boost control of weeds that resist several herbicide sites of action.

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Killing bugs with cornstarch

Cornstarch makes a yummy chicken gravy. New research shows it can also control mosquitoes and help biopesticides stay on a crop longer.

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Reviton is the name of new Group 14 herbicide being developed by Helm Agro US

Currently under EPA review, Reviton is one of the first new PPO-inhibitor herbicides to be introduced in the U.S. in more than a decade, say company officials.