About Dow AgroSciences (NZ) Ltd.

For more than 50 years New Zealand farmers have relied on Dow AgroSciences' products to provide cost-effective solutions to pasture and crop production problems.

Dow AgroSciences emerged from modest beginnings in New Zealand in 1944 as Ivon Watkins, a small privately owned company, and now provides advanced technology in weed and pest control across New Zealand. As the largest agrichemical company in New Zealand, it has become an important part of a global company. Dow AgroSciences is technology driven and research-based with access to international expertise and resources.

Dow AgroSciences (NZ) Limited is a wholly owned subsiduary of the global agricultural chemicals company Dow AgroSciences, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

In New Zealand, Dow AgroSciences has a formulation and packaging plant based in New Plymouth. At this site, over 70 agrichemical products are formulated and packaged for supply to New Zealand and Australian farmers, horticulturists, and forestry customers.

Dow AgroSciences has technical sales representatives and field research officers based throughout the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Dow AgroSciences' products are available through all leading farm and horticultural merchandise stockists.

Dow AgroSciences has a broad portfolio of agricultural crop protection chemicals including herbicides, insecticides, fumigants and fungicides.

Herbicides
A diverse portfolio of herbicides provides weed management for production crops. This helps farmers increase yields by reducing weed competition in their crops.

Insecticides
A wide range of insecticides from Dow AgroSciences is helping customers in more than 100 agricultural markets around the world. These products protect crops such as cereals, corn, as well as a variety of fruits and vegetables from insects which can destroy yield.

Fungicides
Our fungicides provide plant disease management by controlling pathogens in vegetables, fruits, vines, field, and specialty crops.

Fumigants
Our fumigants make it possible to prevent insect damage in certain crops before and after they are harvested.

In New Zealand, Dow AgroSciences provides innovative technologies for cereals, fruit and vegetables, horticulture, viticulture, pastures, rights-of-way and woody weed control.

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