Why fungicides matter to us

Bacteria, viruses and fungi may be part of nature, but that doesn’t make them welcome. They can make us sick – and what’s true for people is true for plants too. Our fungicides protect plants from disease so they can deliver the best possible yields for farmers.

Leave a crop untreated, and you’ll see losses straight away. A global study showed that if farmers stopped using fungicides they’d need around ten per cent more land to achieve the same yields of wheat, rye, barley, oilseed rape, sugar beet and potatoes.

But where’s that land going to come from? All over the world, land is getting scarce. Farmers can’t just buy up a few extra acres to make up for lost yields. In today’s world, there’s no getting round it: most farmers need fungicides.

These are the products that we have developed hand-in-hand with farmers to increase yields. (Incidentally: we also market biological fungicides whose antifungal action is based on selected microorganisms in many countries.)

Nativo™ - Expect more with the value-added fungicide

‘Soybean rust appears in the USA.’ In 2004, this brief headline threw the global soybean market into turmoil. Soybean rust is a fungus that within just a week turns healthy green plants into rusty-red, burnt-looking stalks. And this is a threat that can appear anywhere in the world.

Nativo™ is how we fight back. Nativo™ is our blockbuster brand family which helps farmers control soybean rust and many other fungal diseases – not only in soybeans but in close to 100 different crop plants. Nativo™ is a highly effective all-in-one solution for farmers who prefer the convenience of a broad-spectrum fungicide. Crops pretreated with Nativo™ have increased plant health effects like stress tolerance to drought, heat and frost as well as yield increase, more uniform ripening and improved harvestability.

Other members of the Nativo™ brand family include:

Flint™, Fox™, Sphere™ Max, Stratego™ YLD

Prosaro™ - That makes a difference

Cereal farmers know all about the losses caused by fungal diseases such as fusarium, septoria and rust – to name just a few. Prosaro™ is a foliar fungicide which helps farmers fighting to keep their crops safe from fungal disease to increase their harvest in quantity and quality.

Prosaro™ deals effectively with cereal leaf diseases and reduces levels of mycotoxins, providing all-around control and curative activity which adds value beyond the yield.

Other members of the Prosaro™ brand family include:

Proline™, Input™, Kestrel™

Xpro™ technology – The clever technology behind Bayer’s new cereal fungicides.

Cereal farmers fear a particular mix of colors on the leaves of their crops: a lot of yellow and brown, here and there a bit of green. The yellowish-brown discoloration is a sign of fungal infection, and could be the effect of leaf blotch (septoria tritici), which severely weakens plants and reduces yields.

Xpro™ is a foliar fungicide with exactly the right combination and ratio of active ingredients to control septoria tritici in cereals. It’s a unique combination of two best-in-class greening fungicides with an impressive leafshield formulation system. Xpro™ technology doesn’t just ensure clean crops for longer, it stimulates crops to work harder and build more yield.