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Crop Protection markets and distributes throughout Ireland product
ranges from a number of multinational companies. The products are used
on a wide variety of crops, including cereals, rootcrops, forests, grassland
and amenity crops, fruit and vegetables. The customer base includes crop
specialists, co-operatives and private merchants.
Key
principals include Dow AgroSciences which supplies products such as the
potato blight products Dithane and Electis and the herbicides Kerb and
Goal together with the grassland product, Pastor. From Belchim Crop Protection
we supply the cereal products Starion and Affinity as well as the potato
blight products, Epok and Ranman and the sugar beet insecticide, Yaltox.
Loveland
Industries supplies a range of adjuvants including brands such as Torpedo,
Designer, Bond and Li-700 and the range of crop trace elements. The brands
Aliette, Jet 5, Ronstar and Mogeton are specialist products supplied by
Certis Europe. Makhteshim Agan supply herbicides; Atrazine, Simazine and
Glyhogan.
The
Crop Protection division also distributes cattle mineral licks supplied
from Akzo Nobel and the Cutonic range of mineral supplements sourced from
Loveland Industries.
The
Whelehan Crop Protection division has had a large and successful association
with Irish Agriculture. Today that association remains strong as we bring
to Irish farmers the benefits of research based chemistry from some of
the world's leading crop protection companies.
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