Conceiving New Growing Tools

Crop Protection

Crop protection is the collection of tools, products, and practices farmers use to defend their crops against weeds, insects, and disease. Farmers around the world make multiple decisions each day regarding how best to protect their crops. Weeds steal water, sunlight, and nutrients from crops. Insects and disease can also have a devastating impact on food production. Fortunately, advances in modern agriculture have provided them with a variety of solutions for the task.

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Conceiving New Growing Tools

Crop Protection

Crop protection is the collection of tools, products, and practices farmers use to defend their crops against weeds, insects, and disease. Farmers around the world make multiple decisions each day regarding how best to protect their crops.  Weeds steal water, sunlight, and nutrients from crops. Insects and disease can also have a devastating impact on food production. Fortunately, advances in modern agriculture have provided them with a variety of solutions for the task.

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The Crop Protection Toolbox

There is no single approach in the crop protection fight. Farmers today have a variety of tools, including state-of-the-art pesticides, advanced data analytics, and precision technologies. While these tools are individually powerful, when farmers use them together, it enhances their effectiveness while minimizing the environmental impact of agriculture.

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What crop protection solutions does Monsanto offer farmers?

Pesticides are products that protect plants from all pests—weeds, insects, and disease. With innovations like glyphosate, the primary active ingredient in the Roundup® brand of agricultural herbicides, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), agricultural biologicals such as microbials, and digital tools like Climate FieldView™, we’re helping farmers defend their crops against pests, increase yields, improve soil health, and protect our natural resources like water.

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It’s important to realize no single product can bear the crop protection burden alone.

Using only a single tool, like glyphosate-based herbicides, can encourage species of weeds to develop resistance to that tool. To prevent this resistance from developing while still fighting invasive weeds, farmers use a combination of approaches. Monsanto supports this by working closely with university researchers, industry partners, and individual farmers to provide the best advice about how to combine crop protection methods.

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Explore the world of Crop Protection.

There are many crop protection tools and practices a farmer can implement to increase the success of their crops. We’re committed to providing farmers with what they need to practice sustainable crop protection.
 

Crop Protection Innovations

Crop management software, precision technology, data science, and soil health and nutrient management techniques are all ways technology is driving crop protection in modern agriculture.

Weed Management

Cover crops, precision planting, and herbicides all help farmers control unwanted plants among their crops.

Insect Management

GMOs, integrated pest management, crop scouting, pesticides, and insect resistance management are techniques farmers use to monitor, treat, and prevent insect damage.

Plant Disease Management

Farmers are using microbials seed treatments, GMOs, and traditional plant breeding techniques to combat the spread of disease through their crops.

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All Innovations

  • Unlocking Hidden Potential
    • Biotechnology & GMOs

      Introducing greater tolerance and adaptability to a seed product.

    • Plant Breeding

      Merging plant genetics for improved yield, water efficiency, and more.

  • Conceiving New Growing Tools
    • Agricultural Biologicals

      Using naturally-occurring microbes to benefit the soil and seed.

    • Crop Protection

      Guarding plants from disease, weeds, and pests.

    • Data Science

      Measuring the health of plants, available natural resources, and the efficiency of a farm.

  • Envisioning the Future of Farming
    • Research & Development

      Discovering innovative solutions to challenges big and small, helping farmers grow more sustainably.

    • Modern Agriculture

      Evolving the approach to agricultural innovations and farming practices that helps farmers increase efficiency