Xtend: How Much of an Opportunity for Dicamba?

May 2, 2017 | Market Insights

Monsanto’s Xtend dicamba tolerant soybeans and cotton have now met all regulatory approvals for introduction across the United States and Canada, and are currently under full scale introduction. The need for additional technologies such as Xtend and Dow’s Enlist 2,4-D tolerance trait has been driven by weed resistance to glyphosate, and Xtend and Enlist traits allow farmers to control problem weeds with generally cheaper commodity products rather than using more expensive post emergent selective herbicides. As a result, uptake of these technologies is expected to be significant

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