The development and launch of Soybean Acceleron Custom Blend has been a success story for Bayer Crop Science (formerly Monsanto), but has provided challenges. Agriculture chemicals (fungicides, insecticides, etc.) are typically micron sized organic molecules suspended in aqueous formulations. These mixtures, along with polymers and surfactants in the formulations, when combined in one container can result in negative interactions that cause stability issues. The opportunity involved learning how to mix various vendors’ commercial formulations without details of the formulation package of each of the components. Keying off fundamental molecular kinetics we have created a unique process for combining and co-locating the ingredients that improves the user experience.  Herein we describe the introduction, testing, commercialization, and customer experience of a novel invention where ingredients are loaded and segregated into domains to decrease component interactions. The physical properties of Acceleron Custom Blends have been shown to be much more stable than historical blends and has improved the customer experience.

Layered formulating to improve stability of seed treatment blends

2019 Fall National Meeting

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