Innovation Manufacturer Spotlight - Syngenta
With every growing season comes a new set of challenges for Canadian farmers. Unpredictable weather, rising input costs, more focus on sustainability, increasing resistance pressure – the list goes on. Innovation, science, and service count now more than ever, and our innovation manufacturers are ensuring farmers will always be supported and the industry will be sustainable.
Syngenta is committed to the success of Canadian growers through reliable products, trusted advice, and innovative solutions.
Innovation Manufacturers
We are living in an economy of fast-changing markets, uncertain globalization, false information, and easy access. Put these things together and you could have a recipe for disaster, or the destruction of industries that affect your business.
Fungicide Resistance
Herbicide resistance is a real-time issue affecting most farm operations across Western Canada. Fungicide resistance has not yet reached the same level of alarm; however, it does exist and we can stop the issue from growing with proper management.
Performance Culture from AgResource
Great teams don’t happen by accident. Behind every customer-preferred organization there’s a team built with intention and a strong internal culture. Performance Culture is an AgResource initiative offering third-party coaching, training, and facilitation services required to build a high-performance team.
Optimum® GLY
For canola growers across the Prairies, weed management has always been a balancing act — control the right weeds at the right time, without sacrificing yield. Corteva Agriscience’s Optimum® GLY trait, which made its full commercial debut for the 2023 growing season, is one of the newest and most advanced herbicide-tolerant trait technologies on the market in Western Canada. It builds on more than 15 years of research and global registration work, and it’s already changing how farmers approach in-crop weed control.
LIVING BIOLOGICALS
Living biologicals have traditionally been used in niche markets and specialized situations, but they are becoming more mainstream in agriculture, and we’re seeing many positive benefits.
BIOLOGICALS
Biological crop input products for Western Canada are not a new topic, but they have been given a new life through the development of new products that could actually change the face of agriculture, as well as the desire from farmers to find new solutions to help boost crop production.
IS IT TIME TO CALL 911 ON HERBICIDE RESISTANCE?
Herbicide resistance in Western Canada has been confirmed to be an issue on multiple levels. Up to 14 of Western Canada’s top problematic weeds have been confirmed with resistance and some of them with cross-resistance to multiple herbicide groups.
UNCONTROLLABLE KOCHIA
Kochia has become one of the most concerning weed problems in Western Canada, not only being one of the toughest to kill, but now showing resistance and cross— resistance to up to 4 herbicide groups, including Group 2, 9, 4, and 14.
PRECISION SPRAY TECHNOLOGY
Precision agriculture has been the buzz for the past 15 years and with the rise of AI and its varying benefits, spot spray (or by other names: smart spray, precision spray, or targeted spray) is the newest technology being developed and pushed by equipment companies.
EXCITING NEWS FOR INDEPENDENT AG RETAILS, SURVEY SAYS
At AgResource, we are dedicated to offering the highest level of support to Western Canadian independent ag retails. To ensure we can do that, we need to know what ag retails really need and how they can be best supported, and it’s always best to learn those things directly from them.
50 YEARS OF AGRESOURCE
At AgResource, our mission is clear: to see our dealers succeed. Independent dealers have been the industry leaders, enabling crop production for 50 years.