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Agricultural and Specialty Chemicals

Agricultural Chemical Expertise

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

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

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 corn and cotton, as well as a variety of high-value fruits and vegetables from insects which can destroy yield.

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

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

Dow AgroSciences is also an industry leader in "green chemistry." We've won the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, presented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of the President, for the development of several new products or active ingredients. This prestigious award recognizes technical innovation incorporating "green" chemistry principles into chemical design, manufacture and use.

Specialty Market Solutions

Dow AgroSciences is a recognized leader in developing distinctive, innovative solutions for specialty markets, such as

• Herbicides providing weed control for
  • the range and pasture markets;
  • season-long crabgrass control in commercial and residential turf applications;
• Soil fumigants to control pests on golf courses;
• Insecticides to provide grub control for homes, lawns and golf courses;
• Easy-to-use fungicides for disease control in turf and ornamental plants;
• Gas fumigants to eliminate drywood termites in homes; and
• The Sentricon^® Termite Colony Elimination System – a revolutionary innovation that actually eliminates termite colonies without the need for a chemical barrier around homes and commercial properties.

Plant Genetics and Biotechnology

Our Plant Genetics and Biotechnology business is committed to providing solutions that will improve crop production and deliver improved agricultural outputs for a multitude of food and feed uses. We believe that developing solutions through biotechnology is vital to ensure an adequate food supply for the world's population – expected to grow 40 percent to 9.1 billion – in the next 50 years‡. This business platform is divided into three segments – Seeds and Traits, Healthy Oils and Animal Health.

Agronomic Seeds and Traits

We offer a wide array of proprietary genetics to develop top-performing seeds, and we have the ability to give our customers viable trait choices in a competitive marketplace.

Dow AgroSciences offers a full range of seeds for corn, sunflowers, canola, cotton, soybeans and alfalfa. In addition, we have developed seeds specifically bred for nutritional quality.

• Nutritionally enhanced corn for livestock feed;
• WideStrike™ Insect Protection – giving cotton growers transgenic protection; and
• Herculex* I Insect Protection – all-season, in-plant insect control for corn.

Healthy Oils

The Dow AgroSciences Healthy Oils platform works with output traits that improve plant components, resulting in more nutritious and healthy products that benefit farmers, food processors and consumers.

Dow AgroSciences uses conventional breeding techniques and tools of biotechnology to produce oils that are low in saturated fat and trans fat free. Natreon canola and sunflower oils are ideal alternatives in commercial applications for healthy foods. They deliver outstanding performance attributes, have the lowest content of saturated fat of all vegetable oils and are trans fat free.

Animal Health

In addition, we are exploring opportunities in plant-cell-produced vaccines and antibodies for use in animal disease prevention. These efforts could also improve food safety by reducing disease-causing bacteria in livestock. Learn more about Animal Health.

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‡UN Population Division, Population Newsletter, June, 2005.