Keywords: Dow Agrosciences , Enlist soybean , China , EU
Dow AgroScience’s Enlist Weed Control System is a go in cotton, with system varieties having been planted on about 500,000 U.S. acres this year. It received the green light in corn last June, when China and the European Union (EU) approved Enlist corn. Dow will fully commercially launch the system in corn in 2018.
Soybeans, though, remain a stumbling block.
“We are ready to be commercialized in soybeans,” says John Chase, U.S. commercial leader for the Enlist Weed Control System. However, that won’t happen until China and the European Union approve the traits. Chase, though, is optimistic that the June approvals for corn give momentum for approval of future traits. If Chinese and EU approval occurs, Dow plans to fully launch its Enlist and Enlist E3 soybeans in 2018.
Chase gave an update of where the Enlist system is headed at a media day last week at a Dow AgroSciences research facility near Maxwell in central Iowa.
