The Canadian arms of Syngenta Crop Protection and Arysta LifeScience have signed licensing deals to make new herbicides using one of each other’s chemistries.
Syngenta will use flucarbazone chemistry, the active ingredient in Arysta’s Group 2 herbicide Everest, to produce Sierra and Pace herbicides.
Everest is registered in Canada to control wild oat, green foxtail and some broadleaf weeds in spring wheat and durum crops in the Prairie wheat-growing regions.
Sierra will be a Group 2 graminicide based on flucarbazone, which Syngenta said provides “an effective Group 2 chemistry option for use as part of the Syngenta Total Approach to grass weed management.”
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Pace, meanwhile, will be a co-pack based on flucarbazone and Touchdown-brand glyphosate, to be used for pre-seed burndown in wheat, Syngenta said in a separate release.
“We believe the decision to provide flucarbazone to Syngenta will broaden the reach of this important technology in Canada,” said Hugh MacGillivray, head of Arysta LifeScience Canada, in a release Monday.
Syngenta, meanwhile, will license clodinafop 60EC, the formulation in its Horizon NG herbicide, to be marketed by Arysta under the brand name NextStep NG.
Arysta on its website bills NextStep as “broad-spectrum grassy weed control at an economical price.”
“This agreement will allow Arysta LifeScience to continue to develop unique chemistries and to further enhance its crop protection portfolio,” Arysta said in its release.
Horizon, a Group 1 product, is registered in the Prairies and parts of B.C. for control of wild oats, volunteer oats, green foxtail, yellow foxtail, barnyard grass, Persian darnel and volunteer canary seed in spring wheat and durum.
