Patents Assigned to Nufarm Limited
  • Patent number: 10428347
    Abstract: Herbicide-detoxifying enzymes, compositions containing one or more of the enzymes, and plant seeds treated with the enzymes are provided. The enzymes can be used in methods for detoxifying auxin herbicides or degrading auxin plant regulators, including in methods for decontaminating surface of an apparatus used in agriculture or pesticide manufacturing, methods for decontaminating water, soil, soilless media, or sludge, and methods for protecting a plant from an auxin herbicide, improving a plant's tolerance to an auxin herbicide, or removing an auxin herbicide from the surface of a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: Spogen Biotech Inc., Nufarm Limited
    Inventor: Brian Thompson
  • Patent number: 6881707
    Abstract: The invention provides a glyphosate composition comprising a mixture of salts of glyphosate comprising each of potassium and isopropylammonium salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Nufarm Limited
    Inventors: Peter Dunlop Howat, Phillip Maxwell Hay
  • Patent number: 6003469
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of dipping a number of animals of a species with a pesticide using a formulation of the pesticide which is subject to stripping of the pesticide during dipping of successive animals or groups of animals, the method including:establishing a predetermined level of a dipping liquid containing a first concentration of the pesticide (C.sub.IC) in a dipping vessel the concentration providing safe and effective pesticidal treatment;dipping the animals in the dipping liquid; andmaintaining the predetermined level of the dipping liquid in the dipping vessel by addition thereto of a replenishment composition containing a second concentration of the pesticidethe second concentration of the pesticide (C.sub.CR) being greater than the first concentration of the pesticide, to thereby maintain a safe and pesticidally effective concentration of the pesticide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Nufarm Limited
    Inventors: Nicholas Sydney Sherwood, Timothy James Watts