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Sencor crop protection products now available from SipCam Agro Canada

By Alexis Kienlen 5 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute Sipcam Agro announced a new commercial agreement that gives the company the exclusive rights to sell and distribute Sencor 75 DF and Sencor 480 F herbicides in Canada. The transition was completed in partnership with Sumitomo Corporation, who acquired Sencor from Bayer in 24 countries including Canada.

Kochia is among the herbicide-resistant weeds FMC Canada’s 2026 crop protection lineup aims to control. File photo

Crops

FMC Canada unveils 2026 crop protection roster

By Jeff Melchior January 16, 2026

Reading Time: < 1 minute FMC Canada’s crop protection lineup for 2026 will include four products marketed for control of kochia.

Giorgos Zeikos, apple farmer and president of the Agia apple producers’ cooperative checks the fruits at an apple orchard in the village of Agia, in Thessaly, Greece, June 12, 2025. Photo: Reuters/Alexandros Avramidis

Europe’s illegal pesticide trade surges as farmers cut costs

At least 14 per cent of pesticides used on EU fields today are illegal

By Karolina Tagaris, Reuters July 10, 2025

Reading Time: 5 minutes As the cost of spraying crops with pesticides becomes increasingly expensive, farmers in Greece's agricultural heartland have turned to a cheaper alternative: liquids in unlabeled plastic bottles smuggled over land and sea.

Crops, Reuters

Cash-strapped US farmers switch to generic crop chemicals, in blow to big manufacturers

By Heather Schlitz, P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters November 14, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. 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 like Bayer.

News, Spring Wheat

Herbicide approved for industrial use by drone

By Mary MacArthur July 17, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s Pest Management Review Agency approved Garlon XRT herbicide, the first industrial vegetation product with drone application on the label.

Bayer’s Ashley Smith says Huskie PRE “fills that critical gap” for cereal growers trying to control resistant weeds in the West.

Cereals, Crops

Bayer offers up new herbicide combo to dog resistant weeds early

By Dave Bedard July 16, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bayer launches Huskie, a new herbicide blend.

News, Reuters

BASF to close two glufosinate production sites

By Reuters July 10, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute BASF plans to shut down two sites in Germany that are part of its production network for the glufosinate-ammonium weed killer, the German chemicals group said on Wednesday.

News, Reuters

Bayer looks to AI to combat herbicide resistance faster

Bayer's Icafolin will be its first new mode of action herbicide in some 30 years when it launches in 2028

By Renee Hickman, Reuters June 19, 2024

Reading Time: < 1 minute Weeds are growing resistant to the herbicides already on the market, and agribusiness companies like Bayer are in a desperate search for new modes of action to help farmers kill them.

Crops, General

Pesticides under fire in U.S.

Recent court decisions have threatened farmers' abilities to use some herbicides

By Sean Pratt March 15, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes Pesticides are increasingly under attack in the United States and that is keeping farm leaders awake at night.

General, Reuters

Bayer notches more wins in Roundup weedkiller cancer trials

Company has won 13 of last 20 cases; plaintiffs have won more than $4 billion

By Brendan Pierson, Reuters March 6, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes Bayer on Tuesday said it won a trial in a lawsuit brought by a retired postal service worker in Pennsylvania who alleged he developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma from using the company's Roundup weedkiller.

Daily Network News

Strong 2025 could mean complications for Canadian grain sector in 2026 says analyst

Egyptian wheat imports to be firm as domestic output increases

Federal government to ease some restrictions on temporary foreign workers

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