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9/1/2022
Stewardship in Vegetation Management After 50 years in vegetation management, we know the role of professional vegetation managers is not an easy one. Applicators must balance environmental impact with public perception, application safety with efficiency and how decisions made today can impact decisions of tomorrow—all in the name of stewardship. Corteva Agriscience™ is committed to delivering effective solutions for use on utility, roadside, rail and bareground Rights-Of-Way (ROW). Utilizing an Integrated Vegetation Manag...
7/6/2022
By any standard, 50 years is a significant milestone in the life of a company. By that time, you have history, character and culture. And if you're an organization like Corteva Agriscience, you also have something else: a tradition of delivering groundbreaking new products that raise the bar on efficacy, efficiency and sustainability. For over half a century, we have been honoured to partner with professional vegetation managers to preserve Canada’s utility, roadside, rail and bareground rights-of-way. Backed by a leading research pipeline, innovativ...
7/6/2022
Technician Tips Pulse-Baiting with DETEX® With an augmenting focus on Integrated Pest Management (IPM), non-chemical tools for rodent control are becoming increasingly important. DETEX®, Bell’s non-toxic rodent monitoring bait, is one tool that Pest Management Professionals (PMPs) should have in their toolbox. DETEX with Lumitrack® Biomarker contains a special additive that makes rodent droppings glow bright green under black light. The 20g Blox are made with Bell’s highly palatable bait formulation containing food-grade...
5/23/2022
Bait Station Selection The use of tamper-resistant bait stations at accounts is a key factor in keeping other rodent control products, such as rodenticides, snap traps, and glue boards, inaccessible to non-targets. Selecting the right bait station is a critical step in implementing proper integrated pest management (IPM). One size does not fit all when it comes to rodenticide stations, which is why there are so many options available to choose from. Make sure you understand the differences and pick a station that best fits your needs. The first step is ...
5/4/2022
Research & Development at Corteva Agriscience™ At Corteva Agriscience™, we have a tradition of delivering ground-breaking new products that raise the bar on efficacy, efficiency and sustainability because innovation is an important part of a leading company. A significant component of innovation is Research and Development (R&D), where active ingredients are discovered and developed into products that meet customer needs and expectations. Discovery phase During the discovery phase, an idea gets improved through iteration to ...
9/26/2019
Cockroaches Managing cockroaches with bait formulations have become the norm for pest management professionals. The development of these products has provided the pest control industry with market-pleasing efficacy while creating value for PMPs by changing the culture of structural cockroach management. Few would want to return to the days of night service, clean-out teams and complicated preparation and clean-up requirements. As research provides more information on gel bait aversion and insecticide resistance in cockroaches, conducting fundamental core pr...
