Nufarm Canada expects to save farmers time and money by offering its Assert wild oat herbicide boxed together with Dow AgroSciences’ broadleaf product Frontline, to be sold as Assert FL.
Calgary-based Nufarm, which bought the Group 2 brand Assert from BASF in 2005, said it found a “high percentage” of Assert-treated acres were being tank-mixed with Frontline (Group 4) for use in cereal crops, so it made sense to package the two together, albeit in separate jugs.
The ingredients in the Assert FL box, when tank-mixed, will treat 20 acres, said Nufarm general manager Darryl Matthews. They include 13.5 litres of Assert, 800 millilitres of Frontline and 5.6 litres of MCPA, another Group 4 product offered by Nufarm.
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Given the manufacturing efficiencies at the company’s Calgary plant, Matthews said, Nufarm can price the product at “significant” savings compared to buying Assert and Frontline separately or buying other broadleaf products with Assert.
Nufarm said this package of the “most powerful” rate of Assert will offer wild oat control up to the six-leaf stage, and combined as Assert FL can also control cleavers, hempnettle, chickweed, wild buckwheat, kochia, Russian thistle, stinkweed, lamb’s-quarters, volunteer canola and redroot pigweed.
