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crop canopy forms, making it an important tool to control resistant pests. Taking Axalion Active from discovery to market was a significant global undertaking that started right here in Australia. Australian growers were the first in the world to use the product in commercial crops, delivering a new tool for higher efficacy in crop pro- duction. The product has no known cross resistance, which makes it effective against pests that have de- veloped resistance to existing chemistries and can
products to Australian growers first. Australia was the first global market for newly launched Efficon® insecticide, a unique mode of action targeting piercing and sucking insect pests. Efficon’s compound, Axalion® Active, is the first and only Group 36 mode of action and the first insecticide for the control of piercing and suck- ing pests such as whiteflies and aphids to receive classification since 2015. Efficon is fast acting and can reliably be applied in crop early or after the
Grower Lynk McLelland from Rapisarda Farms with BASF Agricultural Solutions team members Greg Haslam and Serge Usatov, after the world first application of Efficon in Ayr Queensland.
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