FMC and BASF announce several new multi-year supply agreements that will allow both companies to expand their crop protection portfolios in several key crop segments.

FMC and BASF announce several new multi-year supply agreements that will allow both companies to expand their crop protection portfolios in several key crop segments.

The agreements will grant BASF access within the U.S. to a proprietary insecticidal chemistry owned by FMC--zeta-cypermethrin. FMC will gain access within the U.S. to two active ingredients owned by BASF, pendimethalin and imazethapyr.

BASF will begin marketing new Respect insecticide in 2007--based on zeta-cypermethrin.