Corteva Agriscience introduces Enlist Colex-D at Show Rural 2025

Date:02-26-2025

Multinational Corteva Agriscience showcased various innovations to the Brazilian market during the 37th edition of Show Rural, hosted by Coopavel Cooperative this week with AgroPages in attendance. The company's stand highlighted its main tools and technologies in seeds, chemical and biological pesticides, and weed control technologies.

One of Corteva Agriscience's main innovations for this year is the launch of the Enlist Colex-D herbicide. According to the manufacturer, it brings innovation as a new 2,4-D salt and a new formulation "with proven efficacy in weed control."

Furthermore, the multinational highlights that the product shows up to a 90% reduction in drift potential when applied with air-induction nozzles. It also features "ultra-low volatility and reduced odor, characteristic of 2,4-D amine salt formulations."

Finally, Corteva adds that the product offers "great flexibility to farmers, who can apply the herbicide from pre-planting desiccation (plant-apply/apply-plant) through post-emergence of Enlist soybean varieties. Thus, it provides high weed control, reducing weed competition and maximizing crop yield potential."

Industrial Seed Treatment (IST)

For the Industrial Seed Treatment (IST) line, Corteva presented its LumiTreo launch, a fungicide for managing the complex of early diseases affecting soybean crops, such as rot, damping-off, and wilting. "The innovation, exclusive for IST, helps varieties express their full potential throughout their cycle and is labeled for five soybean diseases," they state.

LumiTreo works from the seed stage to control root rot and damping-off (Rhizoctonia solani); red root rot (Fusarium pallidoroseum); seed-transmitted anthracnose (Colletotrichum truncatum); dry rot and typical seed fungus (Phomopsis sojae); and phytophthora root rot and oomycete (Phytophthora sojae).

The company also features the biological nematicide Lumialza. This innovation for soybeans and corn contains the bacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (strain PTA-4838). This natural organism colonizes the root region to create a biological barrier controlling major nematode races, such as root-knot nematodes (like Meloidogyne incognita), cyst nematodes (Heterodera glycines), and root-lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus spp) in soybeans and corn, activating hormone production in the plant, providing greater root and shoot development. Recently, the product received registration to control root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne javanica) in soybeans and root-lesion nematode (Pratylenchus zeae) in corn.

Training Space

Among the company's main innovations at the Fair was farmer training. Corteva's space included a lecture room that hosted a series of technical presentations with leading experts in soybeans, corn, sorghum, pasture, biologicals, and innovations. The company's focus is to bring farmers the main innovations that will help them with daily field challenges.

(Editing by Leonardo Gottems, reporter for AgroPages)