DuPont’s Group 5 herbicide Sinbar, used in Canada to control grasses in fruit, mint and asparagus crops, has a new U.S. owner.
Tessenderlo Kerley (TKI), a Phoenix company that recently began expanding from fertilizers into crop protection, has bought both the terbacil herbicide Sinbar and a diuron product, Zobar, that wasn’t available in Canada.
Details are still to come, DuPont said in a release Thursday, but it expects that TKI will distribute Sinbar in Canada for the 2008 growing season.
Terbacil herbicides such as Sinbar are used mostly in niche crops in North America and Japan, such as mint, fruit and alfalfa, as well as “non-crop” markets.
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Sinbar’s Canadian registration covered it for use in apple, peach, strawberry and highbush and lowbush blueberry crops in the Maritime provinces, cultivated lowbush blueberries in Eastern Canada, and British Columbia crops including fruit trees, raspberries, asparagus, spearmint and peppermint.
TKI entered the U.S. crop protection business in 1999 with a soil fumigant brand, and in 2006 started a new business unit, NovaSource, to expand its product line to include off-patent, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-regulated pesticides for the agricultural, horticultural, turf, forestry and aquatic sectors, among others.
The company said on its web site that it plans to add two to three products to its portfolio each year.
