Pesticides

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

Helena to debut Antares Complete soybean herbicide in 2021

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

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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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Ageless Iron

Restoring a 1946 Allis Chalmers B

By Ageless Iron

FFA student Luke Wickett got a 1946 Allis Chalmers B in rough shape. Here's the restoration story.

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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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All Around the Farm

Retractable shop stairs

By All Around the Farm

Easy access to overhead storage and more room on the floor to park equipment are options with stairs that store close to the wall.

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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.

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Dicamba 2020: What went wrong in Iowa?

It’s not as simple as off-target movement due to use of dicamba formulations applied to dicamba-tolerant soybean.

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Helm Agro US and ISK Biosciences announce collaboration on three new herbicides

Products include a co-formulation of a Group 2 and Group 27 herbicide in field corn and seed corn.

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Tip of the Day

Leaf blower light attachment for cleaning at night

I attached an LED headband light to the end of my leaf blower last year. The idea came to me during harvest because I needed a way to still... read more

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