BASF Launches Voraxor and Zidua PLUS Herbicides for US Growers Ahead of the 2027 Season
01 November 2026, North Carolina, US: BASF is bringing two new herbicides, Voraxor and Zidua PLUS, to the US market, giving row crop growers added tools against resistant broadleaf weeds and grasses as the company positions its lineup ahead of the 2027 planting season.
The company announced the launch from its Research Triangle Park, North Carolina base. Voraxor is built around trifludimoxazin, a new active ingredient, and is designed for burndown applications that clear fields of existing weed growth before planting. BASF says the product acts quickly, delivering visible results in days rather than the weeks growers may wait with some existing burndown options. The company lists marestail, henbit, kochia and pigweed among its primary targets, and says the product also controls PPO resistant weed populations, including Palmer amaranth and waterhemp, two species that have become increasingly difficult to manage with older herbicide chemistries across the US Midwest and South.
Zidua PLUS is aimed at residual weed control in soybean fields and can be applied either before or after crop emergence, giving growers flexibility around planting schedules and weather windows. BASF says the product targets both large and small seeded broadleaf weeds and grasses, listing waterhemp, Palmer amaranth, redroot pigweed, foxtails and barnyard grass as key species. The company states that Zidua PLUS delivers more than 95 percent control of these problem weeds 60 days after application, a residual performance claim aimed at growers trying to limit the number of in season herbicide passes needed to keep fields clean.
Josh Putman, a technical marketing manager with BASF Agricultural Solutions, said Voraxor allows farmers to stay ahead of tough weeds with fast, consistent burndown. Matt Inman, also a technical marketing manager with BASF Agricultural Solutions, pointed to the flexibility of applying Zidua PLUS either before or after soybean emergence as a practical advantage for growers managing tight spring application windows. BASF has not announced specific commercial availability dates or state by state registration status for either product, tying both instead to the broader 2027 season.
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The launch comes as BASF and other major crop protection suppliers continue to emphasize weed resistance management as a central theme heading into the next planting cycle, following a 2026 season in which the company’s agricultural solutions team repeatedly highlighted tightening spring application windows as a growing operational constraint for US row crop growers. Both products add to an herbicide portfolio that already includes established BASF brands used across soybean and corn systems, positioning Voraxor as a burndown complement and Zidua PLUS as an in season residual option within the same resistance management strategy.
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