Novel additives to enhance the delivery of foliar crop sprays

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Crop yield is increasingly important for feeding the global population and making Canada a more**self-sustaining country. Active AgriScience is a BC based company that is developing novel technologies and**formulations for improving yield in many types of crops including canola, wheat, corn, barley, and others. One**of the key services that Active AgriScience offers is the ability to combine a number of agrochemicals into a**single formulation, while maintaining the stability and benefits of each individual ingredient. Combining**multiple ingredients into a single solution greatly reduces the amount of work required for delivery to the**plants, such as reducing the total volume and number of passes in crop spraying. While many important**advancements based on the chemistry of these formulations have been made, there are still valuable**opportunities for enhancing the spray-based delivery through optimizing the physical properties of the**formulation. This project aims to optimize some of these physical properties for more efficient crop spraying.