Dow AgroSciences to launch the second herbicide for 20 years

Dow AgroSciences will launch its second herbicide in 2017,  based on its new Arylex active ingredient, with a wide 10-month spray window.

Earlier this year, Dow AgroSciences launched the first new herbicide for 20 years to control broad-leaved weeds in cereals called Pixxaro  based on its arylex molecule as part of a promised string of new products.

Alex Nichols, the company’s cereal herbicide product manager, says the new product with a different mode of action to other herbicides controls weeds irrespective of temperature and has no carryover issues to restrict following cropping.

Next year’s new product will contain Arylex plus another Dow ingredient and can be used in a very wide spray window from 1 September to 30 June, and can be added to most grassweed herbicides.

In addition, Dow AgroSciences has a new insecticide active with a unique mode of action for use against cereal aphids which it also hopes to launch in 2017.

The active ingredient sulfoxaflor, known as isoclast active by Dow, is planned for use to control barley yellow dwarf virus-carrying aphids in the autumn and sap-sucking aphids in the summer.

The company also hopes to launch a new cereal fungicide by 2019 with a different mode of action to current azoles, SDHIs and strobilurins which could potentially help counter fungicide resistance to cereal diseases.