DuPont "non-crop" herbicides get new marketer

Guelph-based Engage Agro, a well-known distributor and marketer of niche-market pesticides, will distribute DuPont Crop Protections line of "vegetation management" herbicides in Canada.

Engage and DuPont announced the agreement last week, which the new distributor said will "increase the depth of our offerings" in vegetation management.

Vegetation management refers mostly to "non-cropland" uses such as brush control, or weed control on non-crop areas where bare ground is needed, such as around fuel tanks, storage areas, lumberyards and railroad rights-of-way.

DuPonts products registered for use in Canada (or parts of Canada) in that category include the herbicides Escort, Hyvar, Karmex, Krovar and Telar.

"This is a partnership between two companies committed to the vegetation management market," DuPonts national sales manager Alex Crouse said in a release last week.

"Together, we have the knowledge, products and resources to bring better answers to our vegetation management customers across the country."

Engage formed in 1995 under a business model of registering and marketing crop protection and pest control products in Canada on behalf of multinationals, such as BASF, Syngenta, Valent and Chemtura.

The company currently has sales representatives in most farming provinces from British Columbia through to Prince Edward Island.