Ho\vto enemies with your Mother nature gives us both the good and the bad. In the plant world we need to grow crops while destroying weeds that would otherwise crowd them out. In the animal kingdom, we must control
crop-eating insect pests, with the least possible harm to creatures friendly to our cause. Take corn, for example. Earlier herbicides didn't get all the weeds. But Ethyl's unique orthoalkylation process provides "custom tailored' intermediates that make it possible to produce herbicides that are extremely effective but don't harm the corn crop.
The limited persistence of these compounds restricts activity to a single growing season, so crops can be rotated every year. What about corn insecticides? Ethyl has developed and is producing alkylphosphorous inter-
mediates for pesticides that kill corn rootworm and other insects in the soil throughout the growing season. Pesticides of this type reportedly biodegrade at a near ideal rate to
hit your outnurting friends. Synthetic pyre ensure against build-up in throids exhibit the environment. knock down and Synthetic pyrethroids, Λ* produced from"Ethyl "inter ^My killing power mediates made at our yjs^ equivalent to, Hardwicke Chemical or better than, Company plant, are natural pyrethrums effective insecticides from chrysanthe for many crops, espe mums and show c ia I ly cotton. similarly low mamma Hardwicke's rapid lian toxicity. But the commercialization of synthetics are struc these intermediates tured to provide vary advanced the devel ing degrees of in opment of synthetic creased resistance pyrethroids, which are to solar degradation, now commercially making them effective available in various and economical for proprietary formula uses ranging from tions. household to fullscale agricultural applications.
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