Recent registrations and label expansions add functionality to prairie cereal crop pesticides this spring.
Grassy weeds are always a challenge in reduced tillage systems when producing cereals. Pinoxaden (Axial) has received expanded label registration for the Group 1 herbicide for use in winter wheat.
Fenoxaprop, a Group 1 herbicide, has been registered for use controlling green and yellow foxtail, wild oats and barnyard grass in spring and durum wheat, as well as barley.
The chemical tank mixes with 28 broadleaf herbicides. The registered product is marketed as Bengal WB.
Broadleaf control in wheat, barley and oats can now be done using florasulam, a Group 2 herbicide, combined with MCPA ester, a Group 4 chemistry. It is marketed as Topline.
Fluroxypyur and 2,4-D ester, a Group 4 package, is also available for use in spring wheat, durum and barley. It is aimed at controlling Group 2 resistant weeds and tough contenders, such as kochia, cleavers and wild buckwheat.
Pyroxsulam, a Group 2 herbicide and marketed as Simplicity, is now registered for wheat up to the flag leaf from the three leaf point.
