Controlling grass weeds in a spring wheat or durum crop can be tough because of their shared growth characteristics and susceptibility to herbicides.
Syngenta believes it has come up with a solution by combining pinoxaden, the active ingredient in Axial, with another Group 1 systemic grass herbicide, clodinafop, found in Horizon.
A new adjuvant is part of the mix and keeps the two active ingredients stable and sprayable.
Andréa McConnell of Syngenta said the two products, which the company will sell as Traxos, control wild oats in durum as well as Persian darnel, green foxtail, volunteer oats, yellow foxtail, barnyard grass, volunteer canaryseed and proso millet.
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Syngenta agronomist and technical manager Ed Thiessen said the new formulation is fast.
“In 48 hours it has stopped these weeds, even the wild oats and darnel,” he said.
“It is due to improved absorption and translocation of the product through the plant.”
McConnell said the product has been in development for four years.
“It is effective from the one to six leaf stage and is really safe on the wheat,” she said.
Traxos is an emulsifiable solution, which means farmers can tank mix it with many other products.
It can be mixed with broadleaf products such as a dicamba in solution combined with fluroxypyr as an emulsifiable concentrate.
Tank mixes such as Buctril, Benchmark, Curtail M, Trophy, Infinity, Prestige all work.
“That’s new and it makes an affordable combination of products for grass and broadleaf weeds,” McConnell said.
Other pesticides can be mixed as well, including Tilt and Matador.
