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Contact: Jake Mortensen, 530-750-0150 x 114, jmortensen@agraquest.com
AgraQuest, Inc. Featured in August Issue of Wine Business Monthly
DAVIS, Calif. (September 11, 2007) – AgraQuest, Inc., a leading provider of effective and safe pest management products, was featured in the August 2007 issue of Wine Business Monthly. The article, Natural, Microbial Biopesticides: AgraQuest Natural Biopesticides See Growth in Vineyard Use, Commercial Ag Market, focuses on a broad overview of AgraQuest and its biologically based products for the grape market and exemplifies the growing interest in sustainable agricultural practices among high-value crop growers and vineyard managers.
"A feature article of this size and scope, in a publication such as Wine Business Monthly, illustrates how far biopesticides have come in recent years," said Nevada Smith, Marketing Manager for AgraQuest. "Exposure of this magnitude validates not only the strength of our products, but AgraQuest's position within the market segment."
The 2500 word, Roger Lansing penned article features quotes from AgraQuest managers in sales, marketing, and research and development, as well as David Gates, Vice President of Vineyard Operations at Ridge Vineyards, a commercial vineyard looking to reduce its overall chemical footprint while maintaining effective control of diseases such as Botrytis, sour rot and Powdery Mildew.
In the article Gates is quoted as saying, "Sonata gives longer-term protection and resistance than traditional chemicals." He went on to tout the savings Ridge Vineyards sees from longer spray intervals thanks to Sonata. "For mildew control, Sonata always gives us at least 10 days, and usually 14 days of control, which is great because it allows us to extend the period between sprays."
The article also highlights the addition of former US Environmental Protection Agency administrator Bill Reilly to AgraQuest's Board of Directors, as well as a few of the innovative products in AgraQuest's pipeline.
For a reprint of the article in its entirety, visit the AgraQuest web site at www.agraquest.com and click on News & Media or click here.
About AgraQuest
Founded in 1995, AgraQuest Inc. is a bio-science company that utilizes nature's own chemistry by harnessing naturally occurring microbes and organisms to develop products that protect plants in the agricultural, turf & ornamental, and home & garden markets. AgraQuest's products have been proven effective in the lab, in university field trials, and by the thousands of farmers in over twenty countries worldwide who testify to their success in fighting plant and crop disease. The products are safe for agricultural workers, the community and the environment. They do not leave any residue on produce or crops, an increasingly important benefit in light of consumer and regulatory pressure to reduce residues. AgraQuest offers a comprehensive line of naturally-inspired solutions to pest problems. The company sells SERENADE® MAX, SERENADE® ASO, SERENADE® Garden, RHAPSODY®, SONATA® and BALLAD® Biofungicides. AgraQuest received the Presidential Green Chemistry Award from the EPA for the discovery and commercialization of SERENADE.
Certain matters contained in the press release concerning AgraQuest, Inc. are forward-looking statements which are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties which may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the receipt of EPA and other regulatory approval of the Company’s products, the success of the Company’s products in field trials and the timely development, manufacture and marketing and acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace.