Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60GETTING KEY MESSAGES INTO THE HANDS THAT NEED THEM. For a handout on this topic, visit Germination.ca.. Send us your company name and logo and we'll develop a customized PDF for you to distribute. ENDORSED BY: Yeast SEPTEMBER 2016 17 ticides used around the world are for orchard and specialty crops. However, there is growing interest in the use of biopesticides as part of integrated pest management programs for large com- mercial crops such as corn, soybeans and forage crops. Paul Thiel, vice-president, Product Development and Regulatory Science at Bayer (a member of the BPIA) confirms the growing value of biopesticides. He says: “Fungi and bacteria can be very successful biological crop protection agents in the fight against pests, while at the same time having an excellent environmental profile.” He says that biological products such as Bayer’s VOTiVO are success- fully used in combination with tra- ditional chemistry in integrated pest management systems. VOTiVO bacteria live in the plant root system and create a living barrier protecting plant roots from pests like nematodes. “Including a biological product like VOTiVO with chemistry like Poncho in a pest control system can substantially extend the protection period, improving plant health and yield,” Thiel says. Bayer’s Serenade family of biofungi- cides, often used as part of integrated systems with chemistry and/or genet- ics, provide control or suppression of a number of important diseases of many crops grown across Canada. Committed to Biologicals Bayer places its main focus on biopesti- cides. In 2013 Bayer acquired American biopesticide company AgraQuest, and in 2014 the company opened a new research and development facility in Sacramento, California. Both moves aimed to strengthen Bayer’s biopesti- cide offerings to fruit and vegetable, and greenhouse growers. Like Bayer, Monsanto was look- ing to expand its footprint in this area and formed a strategic alliance with Novozymes in 2014, known as Monsanto BioAg. Focused primarily on biofertility products, it has tested more than 2,500 different microbials on more than 500,000 test plots around the world. According to Samphir, the objec- tive is “to find the right microbial to fit the grower’s system.” Public researchers are also looking to biologicals for Canadian agriculture. Allen Xue of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre in Ottawa isolated the Clonostachys rosea fungal strain ACM941 from a pea plant in 1994. Testing in greenhouses, the strain proved to be effective against Fusarium head blight as a foliar spray. In 2014, AAFC signed an agreement with Canadian company Adjuvants Plus Inc. to develop the technology and gain regulatory approval and bring the prod- uct to market. Adjuvants Plus developed Fungi Bacteria Protozoa Viruses