Technology

Creating products and technologies for profitable, sustainable farming

Whether it is maximizing yield potential, enabling regenerative practices, promoting plant health or enabling more efficient water use, we produce products and technologies that enable farmers to sustainably optimize their outcomes.

BASF Innovations

SCN Prevention

Soybeans are important for renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel production, but soybean cyst nematodes (SCN) are a roadblock. SCN is one of the top yield-robbing pests in U.S. soybeans. At BASF, our researchers have dedicated years to helping farmers combat this billion-dollar pest, starting with ILEVO® seed treatment and, coming soon, NemasphereTM, the only nematode resistance trait.

xarvio® Digital Farming Solutions

xarvio® Digital Farming Solutions helps farmers increase efficiency, save time and optimize crop production — all while contributing to more sustainable agriculture. Its tools, like FIELD MANAGER, provide easy-to-understand and simple-to-use field-level and zone-based solutions to help overcome crop health and disease risks. 

Innovative Products

We provide farmers with products that are formulated to enhance more sustainable farming operations. Liberty® ULTRA herbicide (not yet available for sale) with L-glufosinate is an advanced herbicide with a highly concentrated formula that can reduce the necessary application rate, when compared to Liberty herbicide, by up to 50%. This helps to increase weed control efficacy, operational efficiency and sustainability.  Registration of Liberty ULTRA is anticipated by 2025.

Nature-Driven Solutions

Nature-driven solutions offer farmers effective and flexible alternative forms of pest management, while more sustainably protecting non-target organisms and the environment. BASF has developed several powerful biological products, including Vault® IP Plus seed treatment, which includes an EPA-registered dual-strain biofungicide and a leading rhizobia on the market to help protect and enhance soybean roots. 

Regenerative Agriculture

At BASF, we believe in the power of regenerative practices. Our products can contribute to practices that help farmers reduce erosion and rebuild soil organic matter to achieve greater water-holding capacity, such as reduced tillage and planting cover crops through one of the largest herbicide portfolios available.

  • BASF products that help provide burndown and residual weed control, which enables reduced tillage potential: Sharpen® herbicide, and Verdict® herbicide
  • BASF products that maintain cover crop rotational flexibility: Status® herbicide, Outlook® herbicide, and Zidua® herbicide

Plant, Environment and People Health

  • Our fungicide products, including  Veltyma® fungicide and Revytek® fungicide, help promote plant health through environmental stress mitigation. They can reduce heat, drought and oxidative stress, and reduce the amount of ethylene produced in response to abiotic stresses.
  • Our seed treatments, including  ILEVO seed treatment and Poncho® Votivo® seed treatment, enable more efficient water use by changing the root architecture of treated plants. This improves the soil exploration capacity of the root system and maintains water supplies in the root when water is limited.
  • The solid encapsulation formulation of Kixor® herbicide technology, powering many BASF herbicide products, allows the active ingredient to streamline to the soil, providing a physical barrier to the leaf and improving the plant safety.
  • The pod shatter reduction technology in InVigor® canola hybrids revolutionizes the way canola farmers sustainably grow their crops. The benefits include reducing weed counts, disease risk, cost of fuel and greenhouse gas emissions – all while saving the grower’s time. 
The BASF approach to sustainability goes beyond crops and the environment. Human safety is also paramount to how we evaluate our products and technologies.

  

  • Our innovative portfolio of high-quality seed coatings is designed to help protect farmers, field workers and pollinators by minimizing dust generation during treating and planting.
  • Committed to fighting malaria, we have developed Interceptor® G2, a bed net using ground-breaking technology. The net is treated with pyrrol, a new generation insecticide and is proven to be effective against mosquitoes resistant to conventional insecticides. 

Our pillars of sustainability

Pathways

We build platforms that help farmers monetize the added value of their sustainably grown crops.

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Advocacy

We champion farmers practicing more sustainable agriculture and advocate for policies that support them.

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Responsible Business

We focus on reducing our own environmental impact and support critical conservation and biodiversity efforts.

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Liberty Ultra is not registered and is not available for sale. This information is provided for educational purposes only and is not intended to promote the sale of the product. Any sale of this product after registration is obtained shall be based solely on the EPA approved product label, and any claims regarding product safety and efficacy shall be addressed solely by the label.

 

Always read and follow label directions. Nemaspere is a trademark of BASF. ILEVO, Interceptor, InVigor, Kixor, Liberty, Outlook, Poncho, Revytek, Sharpen, Status, Vault, Veltyma, Verdict, Votivo, xarvio and Zidua are registered trademarks of BASF. ©2024 BASF Corporation. All Rights Reserved.