Category — Crop Inputs
Cimegra, BASF
Commercial Launch: January 2021
Cimegra is an in-furrow insecticide for potatoes that provides control of wireworms. 
Unlike other products on the market that intoxicate and temporarily paralyze wireworms, it kills them. Cimegra binds to the wireworm’s central nervous system causing hyperactivity of nerves and muscles, ultimately eliminating the pest altogether.
TOP-PHOS, Timac Agro Canada
Commercial Launch: July 2019
TOP-PHOS from Timac Agro Canada is a granular fertilizer applied at seeding, replacing commodity phosphates in a fertilizer blend.
It inhibits the interaction of phosphate with other cations such as iron and aluminum in acidic soils and calcium in calcareous/alkaline soils. This makes it so TOP-PHOS has more phosphate available for plant uptake by not binding to the surface of mineral or organic particles in the soil.
TOP-PHOS can keep a large portion of phosphorus in a soluble form under different soil water and potential hydrogen conditions. It has been designed to enhance the phosphate nutrition and yield of crops in any soil and environmental condition.
Vayego, Bayer
Commercial Launch: May 2020
Vayego is a foliar insecticide for potatoes which provides control against Colorado potato beetles, European corn borer, potato flea beetles and suppression of aphids.
Vayego has a low risk to beneficial insects when used, according to the product label. Applications of it should start when treatment thresholds have been reached. It should be applied as a directed foliar spray to ensure thorough coverage.
