A Pittsburgh sportscaster has filed a lawsuit against Monsanto, Bayer CropScience, BASF, Syngenta, Dow Agroscience, Deere and Company, and John Deere Landscapes after his father, a golf course superintendent, died from cancer in 2009.

Syngenta’s Turf & Landscape division will have exclusive licensing and distribution rights to Pasteuria Biosciences existing and future nematicide product lines.

The product, which gets a “protein boost” from acibenzolar, has received EPA registration.

Renown fungicide provides systemic and contact modes of action for disease control on golf courses.

Schwenke will focus on all areas of the golf industry, including superintendents, general managers and golf course owners.

GreenCast EcoMeasures is a proprietary tool from Syngenta to help golf courses reduce their overall carbon footprint.

Syngenta, Greensboro, N.C., has announced several key appointments for its Turf & Landscape/Consumer Business. Scott Valentine is now head, marketing services of the company’s Turf & Landscape /Consumer business, a division of Syngenta Lawn and Garden. Valentine previously worked at Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc., as a project leader for drought tolerant corn and soybeans. Most recently,…

Renown fungicide, a broad-spectrum product from Syngenta, Greensboro, N.C., has received U.S. Environmental Protection Agency registration for use on golf courses and other professional turf sites. It is the only product to contain the active ingredients found in both Heritage® and Daconil® fungicides. By combining proprietary azoxystrobin from Syngenta and finely-milled chlorothalonil, Renown provides both…

Greensboro, N.C.-based Syngenta now offers its customers an explanation of the science and the ingredients that go into the premium formulations of its control products. The series of eight short video segments, covering topics ranging from the importance of surfactants to the value of long-standing research and development efforts, is available online http://www.greencastonline.com/FormulationVideo/index.aspx?BnBts=formvidpr The videos include…

  Greensboro, N.C.-based Syngenta has named Scott Cole as marketing manager for the Golf market, responsible for all marketing offers and initiatives for the company’s golf course customers.   Cole most recently served as Syngenta’s turf market manager for herbicides, insecticides and plant growth regulators. His experience during his more than 12 years with Syngenta…

The Environmental Institute for Golf, the philanthropic organization for the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA), announced that Syngenta has reached the $1 million Victory Club level of The Institute’s cumulative donor program. “Syngenta has been a longtime supporter of The Institute,” GCSAA CEO Mark Woodward, CGCS, said. “Syngenta has been in lock step…

Syngenta Professional Products recently introduced a new fungicide designed to treat brown patch, gray leaf spot, dollar spot, large patch, leaf spot and anthracnose. The product is called Renown™ and offers a unique formulation for the turf market. Combining active ingredients from Heritage® and Daconil® fungicides, the new fungicide features both systemic and contact modes…