Helping Growers Raise Bigger, Healthier Crops

Fruits and vegetables are an important part of a balanced diet and healthy living, providing many essential vitamins, minerals and fiber. In fact, many fruits and vegetables have been shown to help prevent chronic diseases like strokes, cardiovascular diseases and even some cancers. In other words, healthy fruit and vegetables make healthy people.

We depend on today’s fruit and vegetable growers to provide enough high-quality fruits and vegetables for us to enjoy. To do that, growers need to keep their fruits and vegetable crops free from the insatiable appetites of destructive insect pests. Insects can severely damage fruits and vegetables both inside and out — demolishing roots, destroying leaves, boring into the fruit or vegetable itself and making it easier for diseases to infect plants.

Spinetoram, an innovative molecule discovered and developed by Dow AgroSciences, is helping fruit and vegetable growers produce vibrant crops by protecting them from damaging insects. Registered under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Reduced Risk Pesticide Initiative, spinetoram controls the insects that can severely limit fruit and vegetable production without harming most beneficial insects which either help control harmful insects or contribute to the growth of fruits and vegetables.

Delegate™ WG insecticide for tree fruit, vines and tree nuts and Radiant™ SC insecticide for vegetables are the first products available containing this effective new chemistry.

By providing powerful new insect control solutions, Dow AgroSciences is helping growers raise bigger, healthier crops of fruits and vegetables to meet the nutritional needs of today’s health-conscious society.