We are committed to increasing crop productivity through higher yields, better varieties, and more targeted pest management control. Our products and services are designed to solve pressing crop production problems for our customers, boosting agriculture productivity to maximum sustainable levels to keep pace with the growing needs of our world's rapidly expanding population.
We provide a world-class portfolio of leading-edge, sustainable solutions for modern agriculture, including:
- Insecticides
- Herbicides
- Fungicides
- Fumigants
- Nitrogen stabilizers
- Seeds, Traits, and Oils
From leading in-plant trait technology to four U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award-winning insecticides, Dow AgroSciences is gaining recognition for the sustainable solutionswe are creating to help answer some of the world’s most challenging needs.
Crop Protection
We have a diverse potfolio of leading-edge insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, and fumigant technologies for customers around the globe. By linking real customer problems with innovative, technology-based solutions, we provide sustainable solutions to the growing world.
Crop Solutions
We offer crop protection products that give growers the tools they need to maximize productivity and help keep fields free of weeds, insects, and diseases.
Vegetation Management
Forestry areas, utilities, railroads, and roadways must be kept free of weeds and brush that can disrupt electrical power transmission and transportation. Our herbicide solutions are a cost-effective alternative to mowers and chainsaws, and help maintain the surrounding environment.
Range & Pasture
On range and pastureland, our herbicides help ranchers and livestock producers by controlling poisonous, noxious, invasive, and other hard-to-control weeds and brush.
Pest Management
Our innovative solutions control insect pests that cause billions of dollars in structural damage each year to homes, commercial buildings, and historical structures around the world.
Turf & Ornamental
We offer solutions to help keep turfgrass and ornamental plants thriving for golf courses, lawns, landscapes, greenhouses, and nurseries.
Post Harvest Protection
With the range of innovative products and services available through theAgroFresh™ technology, we enable growers, packers, shippers, exporters, and importers to deliver high-quality fresh fruit, vegetables, flowers and plants.
Seeds, Traits, & Oils
Our seeds and traits research is committed to increasing yields for farmers and growers worldwide by improving genetics and stress tolerance, and helping to ensure effective weed and insect control. New investment in research, in combination with strategic acquisitions, is resulting in more productive and resilient crops. Our innovations in conventional breeding and plant biotechnology lead to seed hybrids and varieties with greater yield potential. Through our healthier oils business, we develop seed to produce canola and sunflower oils with zero trans fat and lower saturated fat.
With seed affiliates in Australia, Brazil, Europe, India, the Netherlands, and North America, our technology and global perspective drive us to develop products that enhance yield potential to serve the needs of the growing world.
Research and Development
Our proven methods allow us to discover, develop and bring to market innovative and sustainable solutions for some of the industry’s most challenging issues. As a result, we have a deep, high-quality pipeline that will allow us to deliver products that will help growers be more successful today and in years to come.
Invention requires the best and brightest people, physical resources and scientific technologies. Each year, we add hundreds of talented scientists to our ranks. Currently, more than 1,800 employees are dedicated to R&D ─ about one of every three people in the company. We also seek to expand our collaborations with specialized partners, and have deepened our relationships with universities recognized for leadership in agricultural research.
As our people resources have grown, we’ve continued to build our infrastructure to support their needs, increasing lab space by 32 percent, greenhouse space by 77 percent and field station acres by 40 percent. In the near future, we plan to add to our lab space and field stations in Latin America and increase an existing facility with lab and office space in Europe. We currently have active research facilities in 20 countries.
Dow AgroSciences R&D manages a full pipeline of innovations, with active, successful development programs in agricultural chemicals, biotechnology and germplasm. We also invest in new scientific technologies, such as EXZACT™ Precision Technology, which enables our plant biotechnology research to be faster, more precise and more efficient.
Our focus on a broad range of technologies lets us tailor solutions to a wide variety of applications and geographies so we can help customers be successful year after year.
By 2050, the world’s food production systems must support an estimated 9 billion people, with a shrinking base of agricultural land and limited water resources.Dow AgroSciences combines the power of science and technology with the “human element” to discover and develop innovative agricultural solutions for a more sustainable world. We are committed to increasing crop productivity through higher yields, better varieties, and more targeted pest management. We develop innovative chemical and biotechnology solutions to meet the food, feed, and fiber needs of the world.
We provide a variety of products and services to meet the needs of our customers. Our research with strategic partners is bringing breakthrough and sustainable solutions to the industry such as:
- Innovative hybrids and seed varieties
- Crop-enhancing traits
- Crop protection products
- Post-harvest commodity protection
- Vegetation management solutions
- Residential pest control
- Turf and Ornamental
- Healthy Oils
Walk through any supermarket, and you clearly see sustainable advances have been made in food production, variety, and quality. Now more than ever, there is a critical need for new breakthroughs. Global population forecasts show overall food production must be boosted by about 70 percent in four decades. Although our natural resources are limited, the potential for agricultural production advances is not.
Our roots …
We began as the plant sciences business of The Dow Chemical Company, which was founded in 1897. A joint venture with Eli Lilly and Company in 1989 created DowElanco. With a focus on sustainable agriculture, DowElanco combined the leading chemistries of The Dow Chemical Company with those of the agricultural division of Eli Lilly. In 1997, The Dow Chemical Company acquired full ownership of the business and named the business Dow AgroSciences. Today, we employ more than 7,700 people worldwide, and our 2012 global sales were $6.4 billion (U.S.).