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Fungicides - Merchandise

Infinito drives better performance on key diseases in Tasmania

Oct. 22, 2024 | 4 min read
Efficiency is key for a large vegetable growing operation such as Premium Fresh, which produces a range of crops across the north of Tasmania. The spray program to manage key diseases needs to quickly control damaging problems such as downy mildew in onions and brassicas, while working with the wet conditions often seen in the region.
Merchandise

Triple drench working for the next generation

Oct. 21, 2024 | 4 min read
Triguard triple combination drench for sheep, with abamectin, delivers the potency of macrocyclic lactone without the persistency of moxidectin.
Merchandise

Review your buffalo fly control now

Oct. 19, 2024 | 4 min read
Beef and dairy producers in northern Australia have been advised to urgently review their buffalo fly control program following the de-registration of several products containing the active ingredient, diazinon.
Fungicides - Merchandise

Verpixo proves a boon for botrytis control

Oct. 18, 2024 | 3 min read
Wine and table grape growers have brand new chemistry available for the costly diseases botrytis and powdery mildew, with Corteva Agriscience’s flexible, highly effective fungicide, Verpixo Adavelt active, entering the market and the Australian Wine Research Institute’s updated Dog Book.
Market insight - Summer cropping

What’s the value of summer weed control?

Oct. 14, 2024 | 4 min read
Cindy Benjamin talks to independent agronomist Josh Hollitt, based on SA’s Eyre Peninsula. In areas with high evaporation rates over summer, it’s reasonable to think summer weeds might not significantly affect stored soil moisture.
Market insight - Summer cropping

$ummer Weeds investment

Oct. 12, 2024 | 3 min read
A new decision-support tool developed to help Australian grain growers weigh up the financial pros and cons of summer weed control has been launched.
Market insight - Summer cropping

WeedSmart Week sets a new record

Oct. 11, 2024 | 5 min read
About 300 growers and advisers from across Australia’s grain-growing regions journeyed to Port Lincoln on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula last month to share their stories, ideas and concerns at WeedSmart Week 2024.
Merchandise

Extreme treatment for canola

Oct. 9, 2024 | 2 min read
With orders open for 2025 canola seed, it’s worth growers and advisors taking a moment to consider new Equento Extreme seed treatment for above and below ground protection from chewing and sucking pests.
Adjuvants & spray oils - Herbicide & fungicide resistance - Merchandise

Outright 770 makes hard work easy

Oct. 8, 2024 | 2 min read
Outright 770 Spray Adjuvant is designed to simplify and enhance the herbicide application process for farmers.
Merchandise

Chitin-based biostimulant launches

Oct. 7, 2024 | 3 min read
Flamingro’s Ian Rew said trials in New Zealand have shown the product can increase plant root mass and shoot growth by 26 per cent, while also suppressing plant-parasitic nematodes.
Merchandise

Verpixo approved by APVMA

Sept. 25, 2024 | 3 min read
Verpixo has become the go-to option for vine and vegetable growers seeking flexibility in resistance programs to control damaging diseases like botrytis, powdery mildew, alternaria and septoria.
Fungicides - Merchandise

Corteva Verpixo approval

Sept. 20, 2024 | 3 min read
Corteva Agriscience’s Group 21 product Verpixo Adavelt active has achieved APVMA approval for new crop registrations, further boosting its reputation as a highly effective fungicide that delivers on the broad-spectrum control of ascomycete diseases.
Cattle health - Merchandise

Headline Exprinex – gold medal drench

Sept. 18, 2024 | 2 min read
Eprinex Pour-On for Cattle is the gold medal performer when we compare it to the competition.
Merchandise

Portable power for off-grid fences

Sept. 12, 2024 | 3 min read
Gallagher is making off-grid livestock control and precision pasture management easier for Australian farmers with the launch of an extended range of Lithium Solar Fence Energisers, delivering more power over longer distances in any weather.
Merchandise - Seeds

Optimise Nuseed canola seed storage

Sept. 6, 2024 | 4 min read
Research has found the shelf life of any seed is dependent on its moisture content, as well as the temperature and humidity of the storage environment.

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