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Great fit for zero till and min till growers with wild oat resistanceWinnipeg, MB - (January 10th, 2018) – Gowan Canada is excited to announce that the Avadex® MicroActiv™ label has been expanded to include peas, in addition to existing crops barley, canary seed, canola, durum, flax and mustard

Winnipeg, MB - (March 23, 2017) - Gowan Canada is pleased to announce that volunteer canola has been added to the Permit® WG Herbicide label in time for the spring of 2017."Volunteer canola continues to grow in prevalence across western Canada, now in the top 10 weed list for all prairie provinces

Along with its partner SDS Biotech, Gowan Company is pleased to announce Avanza® 400 SC Herbicide has been granted registration in Colombia. Avanza® is a 400 gram/liter SC formulation containing benzobicyclon, an HPPD inhibitor that has been widely used in rice in Asia for a number of years.This is

LATEST HERBICIDE RESISTANCE STUDY IN SASKATCHEWAN SHOWS MAJOR INCREASESDuring the summers of 2014 and 2015, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), led by Hugh J. Beckie, Scott W. Shirriff and Julia Y. Leeson conducted a herbicide resistance survey of 400 fields across the province of Saskatchewan

Gowan Company announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the entire global dinitroaniline (DNA) herbicide portfolio from Dow AgroSciences LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW). The acquisition includes global product registrations, trademarks, including Treflan®, Edge®, Team®, Bonalan® and Sonalan®, intellectual property and labels for herbicides based on the molecules trifluralin, benfluralin and ethalfluralin.