Top four natural crop protection products
Leading experts identify the most-promising ‘green’ products for horticulture and row crops.
Worldwide, the use of conventional products that guard crops against weed pressure, disease and pests is increasing falling out of favour. Many products are being phased out in the EU and elsewhere.
Natural control of crop diseases and pests
Therefore, both manufacturers and research institutions are hard at work developing environmentally-friendly ‘green’ products. While there is some focus on development of ‘green’ herbicides, companies are putting much more effort into natural control of crop diseases and pests.
Beyond a lack of toxicity, there are many other advantages to using natural products in comparison to conventional. As RC Jagessar of the University of Guyana explains in a 2020 journal paper, these can include much lower cost, significantly lengthier protection (even throughout the entire growing period), high specificity
Willie Vogt BASF is working with customers to replace seed although varieties do not pose allergic risk to humans or toxic risk to animals.
BASF has detected the presence of two genetically engineered traits in canola seed samples taken from BASF’s hybrid seed production fields in the United States. These events are designed to increase Omega-3 fatty acid content in the seed oil for use in aquaculture and human foods. While the detected events, LBFLFK or BASF-Cargill Omega-3 and NS-B50027-4, owned by Nuseed, are approved for cultivation in the United States, they have not yet received approval in key export countries.
As farm crop inputs rise, a group of farmers have filed an antitrust lawsuit against major crop input suppliers for their alleged efforts to limit the sale of their products through e-commerce and keep prices elevated.
The most recent lawsuit was filed by Idaho farming operations B & H Farming, Tyche Ag. LLC, Ceres Ag. LLC and Cedar Draw LLC, all based in Rupert. The suit arises from what four Idaho farming operations claim kept prices elevated by the defendants – Syngenta, Bayer CropScience, Corteva, BASF, Cargill, Winfield Solutions, Univar Solutions, CHS, Nutrien Ag Solutions, GROWMARK, Simplot AB Retail and Federated Co-operatives.
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