FMC Agricultural Solutions increases its commitment to address Canadian agriculture challenges

Dec 13, 2017

FMC Agricultural Solutions has acquired select DuPont Crop Protection assets, making it well-positioned to provide customers with innovative crop protection solutions across all major Canadian crops.

FMC now offers a complementary crop protection portfolio, deeper pipeline, greater regional reach, and a full-discovery research and development engine. Post acquisition, FMC is now a tier-one agricultural technology supplier in Canada and the fifth-largest crop protection company globally.

"Combining the substantial resources and talent from DuPont with our own will enable FMC to provide new solutions that serve customers' needs better, deliver greater value, and accelerate the pace at which we bring products to market," says David Strilchuk, Country Manager, FMC Canada. "We are very excited about the range of new possibilities the acquisition will bring to Canadian growers and to the industry as a whole."

The assets acquired from DuPont include proven broadleaf cereal herbicides, formulated with proprietary Solumax® soluble granules technology, offering the convenience and benefits of a dry herbicide that works like a liquid. These new products are highly complementary to FMC's existing and unique pre-emergent product line-up, which includes Authority®, Command® and Focus®.

The acquisition of industry-leading insecticides like Coragen® adds another level of high performance solutions to FMC's existing broad-spectrum insecticide lineup. Other assets include PrecisionPac® application innovation, an exclusive and proprietary custom herbicide blending system, as well as a research farm and manufacturing site in Canada.

Overall, the new FMC Agricultural Solutions is in a strong position to offer Canadian growers a broader range of competitive products today, and a deep and vibrant research pipeline that is expected to yield even more high-performing crop protection solutions in the future.

Source : FMC

Video: Spring 2026 weather outlook for Wisconsin; What an early-arriving El Niño could mean

Northeast Wisconsin is a small corner of the world, but our weather is still affected by what happens across the globe.

That includes in the equatorial Pacific, where changes between El Niño and La Niña play a role in the weather here -- and boy, have there been some abrupt changes as of late.

El Niño and La Niña are the two phases of what is collectively known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO for short. These are the swings back and forth from unusually warm to unusually cold sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean along the equator.

Since this past September, we have been in a weak La Niña, which means water temperatures near the Eastern Pacific equator have been cooler than usual. That's where we're at right now.

Even last fall, the long-term outlook suggested a return to neutral conditions by spring and potentially El Niño conditions by summer.

But there are some signs this may be happening faster than usual, which could accelerate the onset of El Niño.

Over the last few weeks, unusually strong bursts of westerly winds farther west in the Pacific -- where sea surface temperatures are warmer than average -- have been observed. There is a chance that this could accelerate the warming of those eastern Pacific waters and potentially push us into El Niño sooner than usual.

If we do enter El Nino by spring -- which we'll define as the period of March, April and May -- there are some long-term correlations with our weather here in Northeast Wisconsin.

Looking at a map of anomalously warm weather, most of the upper Great Lakes doesn't show a strong correlation, but in general, the northern tiers of the United States do tend to lean to that direction.

The stronger correlation is with precipitation. El Niño conditions in spring have historically come with a higher risk of very dry weather over that time frame, so this will definitely be a transition we'll have to watch closely as we move out of winter.