Row Crop Application
Eliminates concerns about spray drift in row crop applications and treatments. Biodac 20/50 and Biodac 12/20 are the most commonly used sizes for granular pesticide treatments of crops such as corn, wheat, cereal grains, cotton, tobacco, potatoes, sugar beets, and other vegetables.
Fruits, Vegetables, Specialty Crops, and Mushrooms
Biodac helps deliver essential nutrients and critical-crop-protection active ingredients that protect specialty crops such as fruit trees, nuts, bananas, and many other speciality fruits and vegetables from pests. In some specialty crops, Biodac granules, because of their rich cellulose content, have helped shorten growing time and increased yields. Biodac 20/50, 12/20, and 10/30 are the sizes most often used in specialty crop treatment.
Professional Turf Maintenance
Plant protection formulations that use Biodac will eliminate drift concerns to desirable plants, turf, and important green spaces. Golf Course Superintendents, Professional Turf Managers, Head Groundskeepers, and Landscape Professionals rely on Biodac to deliver wetting agents, PGR’s (Plant Growth Regulators), soil enhancement products, and other key ingredients to ensure they get the best performance and efficacy. All Biodac sizes are used in the maintenance of turf and ornamentals.
Home Lawn & Garden Care
Consumer applications and products on Biodac granules include products for lawn care, soil enhancement, fast plant growth, flower and vegetable gardening, weed control, and granular insect control. Biodac sizes 4/10, 8/16, 10/30, and 12/20 are all well-established with home lawn and garden care granular products.
Mushroom Growing
Due to its rich cellulose content, Biodac granules provide excellent carbohydrates for mushroom spores. Thus, Biodac is used in several mushroom supplements to help stimulate growth and increase yield. And with its various organic certifications, Biodac can serve as a prime ingredient for organic mushroom growing products.
Aquatics Management
Biodac granules have the unique ability to perform in all kinds of aquatic environments. They deliver the active ingredients safely and in a timely manner to best control harmful invasive vegetation. They also allow for better use of the water area by providing a cleaner and clearer environment. Biodac 4/10 and 12/20 sizes are most often used for aquatic applications.
Aerial Applications
For aerial applications, such as insect control, weed control, and crop dusting, growers and applicators rely on products made with Biodac for its consistent, uniform size and excellent ballistics, resulting in clean, continuous, and precise operation through all types of aerial application equipment. Aerial applications generally use Biodac 12/20, 8/16, and 20/50 sizes.
Residential & Professional Pest Control
All Biodac granule sizes are used in professional, commercial, and residential pest control applications. Pest control products formulated on Biodac are used for broad spectrum control of harmful insects as well as for controlling specific species such as fire ants and spiders around a home, building, or open spaces.
Mosquito Control
Biodac 12/20, 4/10, 20/50, and 10/30 sized granules are well-established in the mosquito control market on larvacide and adult mosquito granular control products. Biodac granular mosquito products are packaged in a wide variety of containers and packages as well as being aerially applied for mosquito control in many parts of the world.
Organic Pest Control
Biodac is the only true inert granular carrier that is OMRI Listed making it the ideal carrier for 25(b) 2 EPA organic pesticides. Natural active ingredients (such as citrus oils, solvents, and natural minerals, etc.) are applied on Biodac granules to make safe organic control products used to control snails, slugs, spiders, chiggers, ants, and many other types of insects, weeds, and fungus growth.
Product Enhancement Applications
All sizes are used by formulators to control moisture in blended combination products, such as “weed & feeds.” Biodac serves as a drying agents and product conditioner. The innate absorptive properties help to keep products dry in manufacturing and in their packaging. Biodac also eliminates compression and bag set in finished products so that it is always fresh in appearance and flowable in use.
Biodac is also used as a filler in assorted products to improve the overall quality in weight, volume, and balance and to improve aesthetics by the lack of dust in finished products.
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