While farmers and spray contractors keep a close watch on this season’s Summer crops for signs of weeds and diseases, people behind the scenes like Ari Panayi are working hard from Nufarm’s Centre of Excellence Laboratory in Melbourne, to ensure their products deliver every use.

A specialist chemist who works in Nufarm's formulation team, Ari was responsible for developing Amicide® Advance 700 in a three-year project involving thousands of experiments that has helped create a world first – a fully patented, 700 g/L 2,4-D formulation which performs under the most extreme conditions.

It’s a coup for Australian farmers who are benefiting from a better, more stable formulation which controls broadleaf weeds in both in-crop and fallow situations.

Even better, Amicide Advance 700 is compatible with a wide range of Nufarm product formulations, bringing peace of mind and valuable time savings to farmers when they are tank mixing products.

While Nufarm has been a leading supplier of 2,4-D brands such as Amine 625 and Cobber® 475 for years, the development of this latest Amicide Advance 700 formulation has required three years in the laboratory and another three years of glasshouse and field trials to identify a unique formulation which met all the specified requirements that Australian farmers need.

‘It’s a big investment by Nufarm in local R&D and manufacturing to create this unique product for the Australian market,” Ari said.

Once the formulation improvements were made, Ari handed over to other members of Nufarm’s R&D team for glasshouse and field testing involving more than 80 field trials over another three years.

“Farmers and agronomists can be confident that any claims made on Nufarm product labels have been fully tested in the company’s laboratories, glasshouses and field trials, so we know they perform in Australian conditions,” Ari said.

Find out more about Amicide Advance 700 here.