Innovations List
- BioDirectTM Technology: Canola Flea Beetle*
Applicable Crops: Canola and Oilseed rape
Product Description: Flea beetles are highly destructive and cause significant economic loss for canola farmers. BioDirectTM Technology is being developed to provide a new means to control striped flea beetles without affecting beneficial insects.
Pipeline: Ag Biologicals
- BioDirect™ Technology: Colorado Potato Beetle Control*
Applicable Crops: Potato
Product Description: The Colorado potato beetle has developed resistance to multiple classes of insecticides. This project could provide a new mode of action to protect crops from this pest.
Pipeline: Ag Biologicals
- BioDirect™ Technology: Varroa Mite Control
Applicable Crops: NA
Product Description: Varroa mites can be found in almost any bee hive in the U.S., and are the primary threat to bee health. Beekeepers face an additional challenge as Varroa have developed resistance to many pesticides used to control the population. This project has the potential to provide beekeepers an alternative solution to control Varroa and improve bee health and hive survival.
Pipeline: Ag Biologicals
Commercialization is dependent on multiple factors, including successful conclusion of the regulatory process. The information presented herein is provided for educational purposes only, and is not and shall not be construed as an offer to sell, or a recommendation to use this product for any purpose whatsoever.- The BioAg Alliance: BioNematicide for Soy*
Applicable Crops: Soy
Product Description: Soybean cyst nematodes are a damaging crop pest that can impact the production of our reliable and nutritious food supply. This microbial project has the potential to give producers additional tools for management of soybean cyst nematodes in soybeans.
Pipeline: Ag Biologicals
- Trecepta™ Corn
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: Insects can cause significant crop damage reducing the yields needed to meet the growing demand for food, feed and fuel. This next-generation project is designed to provide a high level of broad spectrum above-ground control of fall armyworm, corn earworm, corn borers and cutworms. Multiple modes of action provide the potential for reduced refuge acre requirements.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Fourth-Generation Above-Ground Insect-Protected Corn*
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: This project is being developed to offer novel modes of action to protect corn from the most damaging above-ground pests throughout the long tropical growing seasons within South America. This innovative project is being developed to deliver the most complete, and durable solution for controlling armyworms, corn borers, and earworms.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Fourth-Generation Corn Rootworm Below-Ground Control*
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: This next-generation corn technology is being developed to leverage the naturally occurring RNAi process to provide improved control of corn rootworm, a pest that has been dubbed the “billion-dollar-bug” because of the extreme damage it causes to corn plants.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Fourth-Generation Bollgard® Cotton*
Applicable Crops: Cotton
Product Description: This cotton project has the potential to offer season-long protection and increased durability against insects that can damage the cotton plant, causing losses to cotton farmers. It’s being designed to provide multiple modes of action against tobacco budworm, cotton bollworm, fall armyworm and pink bollworm.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Second-Generation Insect-Protected Soybeans*
Applicable Crops: Soy
Product Description: Second-generation insect-protected soybeans are designed to expand protection to additional insects, including armyworm and podworm, with the potential to reduce insecticide use. Multiple modes of action can improve performance and increase project durability.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Third-Generation Insect-Protected Soybeans*
Applicable Crops: Soy
Product Description: Insect damage to soybeans can reduce the yields that enable farmers to meet the growing global demand. This project has the potential to provide durable protection against lepidopteran insects, with fewer insecticides.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Lygus and Thrips Control Cotton*
Applicable Crops: Cotton
Product Description: Damage from thrips, lygus and fleahopper bugs can result in slow early season growth and reduced yields. This project has the potential to be the first to extend the spectrum of insect control to all three pests, while potentially reducing insecticide use.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- SmartStax® PRO Corn
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: Corn rootworms cause extreme damage to corn plants. SmartStax® PRO is designed for full-season control of below-ground insects and later-season larvae through three modes of action. It combines Genuity® SmartStax® corn rootworm protection with an additional plant-incorporated protectant that employs the naturally occurring RNAi process to control targeted pests.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Fifth-Generation Above-Ground Insect-Protected Corn*
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: This project under development aims to offer novel modes of action to protect corn against the broadest spectrum of above-ground pests, such as corn earworm and fall armyworm. Additional modes of action increase product durability.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Second-Generation Soybean Cyst Nematode Resistance
Applicable Crops: Soy
Product Description: This project has the potential to offer improved plant health and additional protection against multiple races of soybean cyst nematodes, one of the most devastating soybean pests in the U.S.
Pipeline: Plant Breeding
- Microbial BioControl Platform*
Applicable Crops: Corn and Soy
Product Description: Biocontrol uses safe and naturally-occurring fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms to help protect plants against disease or insect pressure.
Pipeline: Ag Biologicals
- NemaStrike™ Technology*
Applicable Crops: Corn, Cotton and Soy
Product Description: Nematodes cause damage to the roots of important row crops such as corn, soy and cotton, presenting one of the largest pest challenges for farmers. NemaStrikeTM Technology was developed to provide farmers with an additional tool to control multiple nematode species, including lesion, soybean cyst, root knot and reniform.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- BioDirect™ Technology Glyphosate-Resistant Weed Control*
Applicable Crops: Corn, Cotton, Sorghum, Wheat, and Soy
Product Description: Herbicide-resistant weeds limit farmers’ options for weed control and increase costs. This project aims to use a new technology based on molecules found in nature to target glyphosate-resistant weeds, such as Palmer Amaranth and Waterhemp, and provide a more effective spectrum of control.
Pipeline: Ag Biologicals
- Next Generation Roundup Branded Agricultural Formulation*
Applicable Crops: Typical Roundup Uses
Product Description: This next-generation herbicide is being developed to deliver effective and efficient weed control with glyphosate, while improving handling for growers. The high-loading project line could help to reduce transportation footprint and limit packaging waste.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- Harness® Max Acetochlor Premix*
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: This product is developed to combine two trusted herbicides to deliver an additional option for weed management in corn and sorghum. Multiple residual modes of action have the potential to offer excellent control of glyphosate-resistant palmer amaranth.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- Improved Dicamba Formulation*
Applicable Crops: Corn, Cotton and Soy
Product Description: These next-generation technologies are being designed to enable formulations with higher concentration to improve grower convenience, reduce transportation footprint and minimize packaging waste, while maintaining a low volatility profile from VaporGrip™ Technology.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- Warrant® herbicide + Dicamba Premix*
Applicable Crops: Cotton and Soy
Product Description: Herbicide-resistance is an increasing challenge for farmers. This convenient premix project with the advantage of VaporGrip™ Technology is being designed to deliver multiple modes of action to combat hard-to-control weeds and grasses.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- Acetochlor + Dicamba + 3rd MOA Premix*
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: Weed resistance continues to threaten crop yields. A highly concentrated herbicide of three effective modes of action improves the handling properties, reduces packaging waste, and ensures multiple effective modes of action are being used to prevent weed emergence.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- Novel PPO Herbicide formulation in collaboration with Sumitomo*
Applicable Crops: Corn and Soy
Product Description: New weed control tools allow growers to utilize a diverse approach to weed control and is expected to offer more sustainable weed control system for agriculture.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- Next Gen Dicamba Premix*
Applicable Crops: Corn, Soy and Cotton
Product Description: New weed control tools allow growers to utilize a diverse approach to weed control and will offer more sustainable weed control system for agriculture. This novel formulation of two effective Ais will allow for improved on-target applications.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- Low Volatility 2, 4-D*
Applicable Crops: Corn and Soy
Product Description: Low Volatility 2, 4-D is an effective and proven herbicide which is being developed to provide control of damaging weeds in 2, 4-D-tolerant corn, soy and cotton crops. This project will have compatibility with Roundup brand agricultural herbicides and has a comparable off-site movement profile to other new 2, 4-D products on the market.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- High Load Warrant®*
Applicable Crops: Soy and Cotton
Product Description: The use of effective herbicides and the capability to layer residual chemistries over the top of crop systems reduces the emergence of weeds and reduces selection pressure on post-emergence herbicides. This project increases the active ingredient in its herbicide formulation which has beneficial implications for the environment and for growers—including a decrease in packaging material and a reduced volume of product requiring transport.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- Dicamba-Tolerant Canola*
Applicable Crops: Canola
Product Description: Multiple modes of action for weed control help enhance the long-term sustainability and effectiveness of weed management systems. This project is being developed to provide canola growers the ability to use dicamba for a second mode of action for pre-emergence and in-crop weed control.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Third-Generation Herbicide-Tolerant Corn*
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: The use of herbicide-tolerant crops has enabled growers to reduce or eliminate tillage (no-till), which helps conserve soil and water. Third-generation herbicide-tolerant corn technology is being developed to build on the proven foundation of Roundup Ready® Corn 2 by adding herbicide tolerance of both dicamba and glufosinate to provide growers with additional solutions to control weeds.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Third-Generation Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans
Applicable Crops: Soy
Product Description: Designed to offer multiple modes of action to enhance weed control, this project has the potential to enable farmers to employ more sustainable on-farm practices. The project is being developed to build on the benefits of Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® soybeans, including high-yield opportunity and tolerance to glyphosate and dicamba, with added tolerance to glufosinate.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Fourth-Generation Herbicide-Tolerant Corn*
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: The use of multiple chemistries can help farmers with weed management and supports sustainable tillage practices. The fourth-generation herbicide-tolerant corn is being developed to include tolerance to dicamba, glufosinate, glyphosate and additional modes of action to give farmers another option to manage current hard-to-control weeds, and minimize weed resistance issues for the future.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Fourth-Generation Herbicide-Tolerant Cotton*
Applicable Crops: Cotton
Product Description: Herbicide-tolerant cotton enables farmers to practice no-tillage production that reduces emission, fuel consumption and preserves soil health. This cotton project is being developed to tolerate glyphosate, dicamba, glufosinate, and at least one additional mode of action, to manage herbicide resistance and hard-to-control weeds that make no-till production a challenge.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Fourth-Generation Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans*
Applicable Crops: Soy
Product Description: Herbicide-tolerant soybeans enable farmers to practice no-tillage production that reduces emission, fuel consumption and preserves soil health. Current weed resistance challenges sustainable no-till practices. This soybean project is being developed to include multiple herbicide tolerances that could help farmers manage hard-to-control weeds.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Fifth-Generation Herbicide-Tolerant Corn*
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: Farmers are in need of new tools to manage hard-to-control and herbicide-tolerant weeds to maintain sustainable production practices. Herbicide-tolerant corn enables farmers to practice no-tillage production that reduces emission, fuel consumption and preserves soil health. This project is being developed to provide broad-spectrum control of grass and broadleaf weeds, and enable additional multi-herbicide projects.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Fifth-Generation Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans*
Applicable Crops: Soy
Product Description: Farmers are in need of new tools for hard-to-control and herbicide-tolerant weeds to maintain sustainable production practices. This project is being designed to provide broad-spectrum control of grass and broadleaf weeds, and enable additional multi-herbicide projects.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- DEKALB® Canola with LibertyLink® Technology
Applicable Crops: Canola
Product Description: Herbicide-tolerant canola offers growers a tool for effective weed control to maintain strong yields to meet the growing global demands. DEKALB® Canola with LibertyLink® Technology will offer farmers a second herbicide tolerance mode of action that has the potential to maximize weed control in herbicide-tolerant crop rotations.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- TruFlex™ Canola with Roundup Ready® Technology*
Applicable Crops: Canola
Product Description: This project has the potential to provide improved weed control and yields to help farmers sustainably meet growing demand for food and feed. The project is being developed to enable improved control of dandelion, foxtail barley, wild buckwheat, and cleavers, and to allow for increased flexibility through a wider application window.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- TruFlex™ Canola with Roundup Ready® Technology and LibertyLink®*
Applicable Crops: Canola
Product Description: TruFlex™ Canola with Roundup Ready® Technology and LibertyLink® has the potential to offer farmers even more flexibility with two in-crop herbicide tolerance modes of action to maximize weed control and manage glyphosate-resistant weeds that rob canola plants of vital nutrients. Canola growers will have the option to use two herbicide-tolerant systems with their proven performing DEKALB® brand canola seed.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Herbicide-tolerant Wheat I*
Applicable Crops: Wheat
Product Description: Herbicide-tolerant cropping systems promote soil conservation by reducing the need for tillage for weed control. This project has the potential to provide a powerful, simple weed management system that contains a combination of dicamba and glufosinate tolerance.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Herbicide-tolerant Wheat II*
Applicable Crops: Wheat
Product Description: This herbicide-tolerant wheat concept aims to optimize yield and promote reduced tillage to increase soil conservation. This project is being developed to incorporate a third mode of action to give growers multiple options for reliable weed management.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Biodirect™ Technology Tospovirus Control*
Applicable Crops: Tomato
Product Description: Tospoviruses can impact the plant health of important vegetable crops like tomatoes and peppers. Studies have shown this BioDirect™ Technology project has the potential to deliver targeted virus control to protect tomatoes against tomato spotted wilt virus.
Pipeline: Ag Biologicals
- Nimbus Novel Fungicide Seed Applied Solution
Applicable Crops: Corn and Soy
Product Description: Fungal diseases can damage crops, causing reduced yields. This novel seed-applied fungicide is being developed to utilize breakthrough science with the potential to deliver broad-spectrum control of fungal diseases.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- Nimbus Novel Fungicide Foliar Applied
Applicable Crops: Soy, Corn, Wheat, Vegetables
Product Description: Fungal diseases can damage crops, causing reduced yields. This novel foliar-applied fungicide is being developed to utilize breakthrough science with the potential to deliver broad-spectrum control of fungal diseases.
Pipeline: Ag Productivity Innovations
- Corn Disease Control Platform*
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: This research, being pursued through both plant breeding and plant biotechnology, aims to develop solutions to combat some of the most devastating diseases that impact the success of corn harvests. It has the potential to enhance plant health and improve yield potential with comprehensive resistance to the most common corn diseases, such as anthracnose and fusarium stalk rot, Goss’ wilt, gray leaf spot, northern corn leaf blight and fusarium stalk rot.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology & Plant Breeding
- Downy Mildew-Resistant Lettuce
Applicable Crops: Lettuce
Product Description: Downy mildew is the most devastating disease in lettuce. This project has the potential to provide full resistance to downy mildew in future commercial lettuce products, which could increase yields, reduce waste and limit the number of fungicidal treatments.
Pipeline: Plant Breeding
- Geminivirus-Resistant Tomato
Applicable Crops: Tomato
Product Description: This project has the potential to reduce crop loss in the field due to disease. It aims to use unique genes developed through advanced plant breeding to deliver industry-leading protection from geminivirus in tomatoes to increase yields.
Pipeline: Plant Breeding
- Eight-Disease-Resistance Saladette tomato
Applicable Crops: Tomato
Product Description: Through modern breeding, scientists are able to develop tomato seeds that will be more likely to resist the devastating diseases that they encounter in the field. This unique product provides protection against eight diseases, so that the fruit has a better chance of arriving to your supermarket rather than being wasted in the field.
Pipeline: Plant Breeding
- Field Insights
Applicable Crops: Data Science
Product Description: Our R&D efforts are focused on providing data that helps farmers see what’s happening in every field. We are expanding our field health research efforts to include insights to help identify and predict disease vulnerability and diagnose disease in the field.
- Crop Expansion: Field Health Monitoring
- Corn Disease Vulnerability (GLS, NLB)
- International Expansion: Field Health & Scouting Insights
- Stress Identification
- Enhanced Directed Scouting
- Disease Diagnosis & Identification
- Advanced Irrigation Recommendations
Pipeline: Climate
- Genuity® DroughtGard® Hybrids Platform Expansion
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: Growers are looking for ways to manage environmental variables such as weather, weeds and bugs. This project has the potential to minimize yield loss and support sustainable production in managing these difficult challenges in the field.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- High-Density Corn Systems
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: By increasing plant population, this project could help farmers sustainably grow more crops on each acre.
Pipeline: Plant Breeding
- Weather Insights
Applicable Crops: Data Science
Product Description: Accurate weather updates and forecasts are critical to farmers. We are developing insights from field-level weather events unique to their farm and critical to day-to-day decision making. Timely decisions help farmers optimize yield and improve their profitability.
We are inventing new ways to stream data from the field to the cloud, and ultimately, to a farmer's FieldViewTM account. Streaming machine data into FieldView can be challenging where network connectivity is not strong, a common occurrence in Brazil. Data Offloader is a tool being developed specifically for Brazilian farmers, and will use cell phone connectivity to offload data automatically to a farmer's FieldView account when a cell phone is near the cab, which enables expedited visualization of data for actionable decisions.
Pipeline: Climate
- The BioAg Alliance: Corn BioYield 2 to be branded as Acceleron B-360 ST*
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: Interactions with soil microbes can enhance a corn plant’s ability to get nutrients. This ag biological product is designed to unlock yield potential by increasing mycorrhizae colonization of the root zone to provide enhanced functional root volume, nutrient and water uptake.
Pipeline: Ag Biologicals
- The BioAg Alliance: Soy BioYield 2
Applicable Crops: Soy
Product Description: This microbial project is being developed to encourage interactions between soybeans and beneficial bacteria to enhance nutrient availability and uptake for improved crop health and yield.
Pipeline: Ag Biologicals
- The BioAg Alliance: Corn BioYield 3
Applicable Crops: Soy
Product Description: This project is being developed to use ag biologicals, including microbials, derived from nature to support crop health and efficient nutrient use. Microbial growth along the roots has the potential to improve the corn plant’s ability to take up nutrients, unlocking yield potential.
Pipeline: Ag Biologicals
- The BioAg Alliance: Corn, Soy and Wheat BioYield Pipeline
Applicable Crops: Corn, Soy, Wheat
Product Description: This platform is being developed to use microbials derived from nature to support crop health and efficient nutrient use. Microbial growth along the roots has the potential to improve a plant’s ability to take up nutrients, unlocking yield potential.
Pipeline: Ag Biologicals
- Higher-Yielding Corn*
Applicable Crops: Corn
Product Description: This higher-yielding corn is being developed to combine one or more traits with characteristics for increased yield, which has the potential to help farmers achieve improved harvests to meet the growing demand for food, feed and fuel.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Next-Generation Higher-Yielding Soybeans*
Applicable Crops: Soy
Product Description: This project aims to combine one or more traits with characteristics for increased yield to help farmers achieve improved harvests to meet the growing global demand for food, feed and fuel.
Pipeline: Plant Biotechnology
- Flavor Journey Honeydew
Applicable Crops: Honeydew
Product Description: Flavor Journey Honeydew is the first honeydew with the promise of a longer shelf life. This quality allows for fewer harvest passes in the field for growers, and more consistent quality for consumers.
Pipeline: Plant Breeding
- Just Sweet Pepper
Applicable Crops: Pepper
Product Description: Just Sweet is a mini yellow specialty pepper with an outstanding flavor and eating profile. It is small like a mini pepper but shaped more like a ribby lamuyo.
Pipeline: Plant Breeding
- Fertility
Applicable Crops: Data Science
Product Description: We are working to provide farmers with detailed, customized insights for management decisions around plant nutrition and fertility. Our research is focused in two primary areas: expanding the scope of our fertility management tools to include other inputs beyond nitrogen, and support additional new crops.
- Whole Field Nitrogen Monitoring
- Sub-Field Nitrogen Monitoring
- Grid, Soil Test Data Ingest and Layers Visualization (OM, CEC, pH)
- Manual Fertility Scripting (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium & Lime)
- P&K Scripting
- P&K Scripting (for expanded crops)
- Advanced Nitrogen Scripting
- Whole Field Nitrogen Monitoring (Canola, Wheat)
- Advanced Nitrogen Scripting with Sensors and Imagery
Pipeline: Climate- Seeds and Planting
Applicable Crops: Data Science
Product Description: We’re developing new and customized approaches to determine the best seed for a farmer’s geographic region and specific field, as well as helping farmers manage seed selection and optimize seeding rates by zone within their fields.
- Advanced Seed Scripting, Population by Field Zone
- Additional Zone Sources
- Regionally Based Seed Selection (Corn, Soy)
- Enhanced Field Zones & Improved Seeding
- Field Specific Seed Selection (Corn)
- Seed Portfolio Optimization
- Advanced Seed Scripting (Corn, Soy)
Pipeline: Climate- Measurement Tools and Sensors
Applicable Crops: Data Science
Product Description: Access to data can help farmers make better decisions about their farming practices and use resources and land more efficiently. We are developing an in-field sensor network will provide more frequent measurements from the field to farmers to help with the important decisions they make each season to protect and increase their harvest.
- Climate FieldViewTM Digital HUB
- Climate FieldView Gauge for Enhanced Precipitation
- Climate FieldView Soil Moisture and Temperature Probe
- On-Equipment Soil Mapping
- Nitrate Sensor
Pipeline: Climate