No-mix weed control; New on horizon; Weed control deployed; New fungicide ingredient
No-mix weed control
Syngenta has registered Broadband for use in spring wheat and barley. The pre-formulated herbicide controls grass and broadleaf weeds.
As a single product, the control of both weed spectrums is new. In the past producers relied on tank-mixed products to control both weeds. The post emergent herbicide is made up of pinoxaden and florasulam and can be applied from the one leaf stage to the flag leaf. Pinoxaden is the veteran grassy weed product Axial. Florasulam is found in products like Brigade, also from Syngenta, Dow’s Prepass and Frontline and BASF’s Spectrum. It will be available in the spring of 2009 in 40 and 320 acre packages. For more information, visit www.syngenta.ca.
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New on horizon
Another new registration from Syngenta this fall is New Horizon NG. The grass weed product is registered for durum and spring wheat production. The post emergent product handles the same spectrum as its predecessor, Horizon 240EC. The clodinafop-propargyl active ingredient is registered for more than 30 tank mixes and aerial application. As with 240EC, it comes packaged with Score adjuvant.
Weed control deployed
Deploy is a sulfonylurea herbicide for control of broadleaf weeds in cereal crops including durum, spring and winter wheat, barley and oats.
Deploy is the third product for Canadian farmers from Arysta Life Sciences. It is registered for 18 tank-mix options and for control of 21 weeds.
The product should be applied to actively growing weeds less than 10 centimetres tall when the crop is in the two-leaf to flag leaf stages. There are no cropping restrictions the year following application.
The product can be applied by air or ground and a single bottle with eight grams of active ingredient will treat 60 acres. Deploy is rainfast in one hour.
For more information, visit www.arystalifescience.com.
New fungicide ingredient
Initium is part of a new active ingredient class of fungicide chemistry for special crops that will be used to reduce late blight and downy mildew. The product was submitted for registration in the European Union earlier this year, with worldwide registration processes continuing throughout 2009.
The company plans to launch the fungicide commercially in Latin America in 2010 and the EU in 2011.
Through a process of co-ordinating a set of internationally acceptable maximum residue limits, BASF says it hopes to have a product that will be widely accepted by growers and crop marketers because it will not interfere with international trade.
For more information, visit www.agro.basf.com.
