The European Commission has proposed approvals for three more active ingredients as non-crop pesticides. Proposals to add Dow AgroSciences’ insecticide, spinosad, and Sumitomo Chemical’s insecticide, metofluthrin, to Annex I of the EU biocidal products Directive (98/8) have been passed to EU Ministers for clearance. The third proposal is to extend carbon dioxide’s existing EU approval to use as an insecticide, following an application by Rentokil Initial. Carbon dioxide is already approved as a ...
The European Commission has added the fungicide, pentachlorobenzene, to EU rules that prohibit or restrict persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Pentachlorobenzene is a byproduct of industrial processes and appears as an impurity in pesticides and solvents. The decision is in line with the agreement reached by the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on POPs last year (Agrow No 567, p 21). Other pesticides added by the Parties, including chlordecone and lindane, were already banned or heavily ...
Bayer CropScience has received approval for its new cereal fungicide, bixafen, in the UK, which is its first global registration. The company plans to introduce the active ingredient in combination with prothioconazole under the Xpro range next year. Aviator 235 Xpro isaimed at the winter wheat market and Siltra Xpro is for the control of barley diseases. The foliar fungicides will be for use at 1-1.5 litres/ha and 0.6-1 litre/ha, respectively. Diseases controlled include wheat leaf blotch ...
The US registrants of the insecticide, fenoxycarb, have asked the EPA to cancel its last remaining registrations. Syngenta seeks the cancellation of the active ingredient and Award Fire Ant Bait, while Whitmire Micro-Gen Research Laboratories is dropping its total release fogger, Whitmire PT 2120 TF Preclude. Registrants dropped other uses during the registration review process (Agrow No 536, p 14). Syngenta proposes to formulate the ai until stocks are exhausted and distribute its end-use ...
Syngenta has agreed to supply Arysta LifeScience North America with the cereal herbicide, clodinafop-propargyl, and Arysta will provide Syngenta with the cereal herbicide, flucarbazone-sodium. Syngenta will supply the 0.5 lb/gallon (60 g/litre) emulsifiable concentrate formulation of clodinafop that it markets in the US as Discover NG for the control of wild oats (Avena spp), foxtails (Phalaris spp) and other grasses in wheat. Arysta will market the graminicide as NextStep NG. Arysta markets a ...
BASF’s multi-crop herbicide, saflufenacil (trade-marked as Kixor), was applied to more than 10 million acres (4 million ha) during its first year on the US market. That makes it the largest new herbicide launch in the last 20 years, the company claims. BASF received US approval for saflufenacil in September 2009 and launched it for the 2010 season under four brand names, Sharpen, OpTill, Integrity and Treevix, for various uses (Agrow No 576, p 23). The herbicide is ideal for the control of ...
Chemtura AgroSolutions is introducing two wheat seed treatments in the US based on Kureha’s fungicide, ipconazole. Rancona Pinnacle is a combination of ipconazole with the fungicide, metalaxyl, for the control of Pythium spp, Fusarium spp and other diseases. Rancona Crest combines the same active ingredients with the insecticide, imidacloprid, to provide early-season control of aphids and grasshoppers and the suppression of other pests. Chemtura received its first US approvals for ...
BASF has appointed José Alexandre Loyola as account manager of its Brazilian seed treatment business. His focus will be on extensive crop segments, such as maize, pasture, rice and soybeans. Mr Loyola has worked in agribusiness sales for 14 years.
