Could InVigor Gold Alter The Canola Landscape?
BASF says they are ready to help growers reshape the canola industry, thanks to the launch of InVigor Gold.
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NW Potato Growers Reminded To Scout Their Fields
With the end of the 2025 growing season in sight for many potato growers across the Northwest, agronomic decisions made how can have a big impact on harvest.
BASF Rolls Out New Fungicide To Help NW Wheat Growers
Fusarium head blight is becoming a greater struggle for wheat growers across the Northwest. BASF recently rolled out a new fungicide, Sphaerex, which can help in the fight. Kim Tutor, Technical Marketing Manager at BASF said Sphaerex combines two proven active ingredients.
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To Save Money, Farmers Switching to Generic Inputs
American farmers struggling with slumping incomes and depressed grain prices have been switching to cheaper generic pesticides and fungicides as they plan for spring planting next year, which market analysts said could hit the bottom lines of agrichemical companies...
BASF Donates $50,000 to Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund Program
BASF Agricultural Solutions North America will donate $50,000 to The Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund's Seed A Legacy pollinator habitat program. The donation is part of BASF's annual Living Acres #MonarchChallenge initiative.
The Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund will use BASF's donation to expand its Seed A Legacy pollinator habitat program with the goal of restoring high-quality pollinator habitat
Ag Businesses Report Favorable First Quarter Earnings
Earning reports topped headlines on Wall Street this week, and agriculture businesses seem to be doing well.
Syngenta reported first-quarter sales of $7.1 billion, up 20% year over year. BASF reported first-quarter sales were up 16 percent, to 19
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Washington State University Touts New Product To Address Wireworm
BASF's new insecticide Teraxxa, has been identified to manage wireworm populations and could be available as soon as this spring. WSU Extension educator, Dale Whaley, said wireworms are the amateur stage, the larva form, of click beetles that live in the soil.
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EPA Disappointed in Court Ruling, Retailers Call for Immediate Stay
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler voiced disappointment in a court decision to vacate registrations for three dicamba herbicides. Wheeler said of the ruling, "The 2020 growing season is well underway, and this creates an undue burden for our first conservationists – farmers."
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AFBF: Dicamba Decision Hits Farmers At Bad Time
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated the registrations of three Dicamba-based herbicides, one each from BASF, Corteva, and Bayer. Allison Crittenden, director of Congressional Relations with the American Farm Bureau, says these kinds of court decisions often hit farmers at the worst possible times
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Farmer Awarded Millions In Dicamba Suit
Over the weekend, a seven member jury awarded a Missouri peach farmer $265 million in a case against Bayer and BASF. Bill Bader alleges the herbicide Dicamba ruined thousands of his trees back in 2015 and 2016, when the chemical drifted from a neighboring cotton field.
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