DuPont Canada now has regulators’ approval for Prairie farmers to use its Group 2 broadleaf herbicide Express SG, tank-mixed with glyphosate, for burnoff before seeding oats, winter wheat or canaryseed.
Express SG, a soluble granule form of tribenuron methyl, is marketed as a booster for glyphosate products, such as Monsanto’s Roundup and Syngenta’s Touchdown iQ, to improve control of broadleaf weeds such as dandelion, narrow-leaved hawk’s-beard, flixweed, wild buckwheat and volunteer canola (including glyphosate-tolerant varieties).
Express SG also recently picked up approval for Prairie farmers to apply before seeding of field peas, dry beans, fababeans, lupins and soybeans.
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“This gives growers the weed control they need to get their
crops off to the best start, plus maximum flexibility to adjust their seeding plans after a pre-seed burnoff,” Travis Schoonbaert, DuPont’s cereals and oilseeds product manager, in a press release Thursday.
Along with these new crops, spring wheat, durum, barley, field peas, dry beans, fababeans, lupins and soybeans can be seeded 24 hours after a pre-seed burnoff of Express SG and glyphosate, DuPont said.
For chem-fallow and fall applications, winter wheat can be seeded within 24 hours, along with any of the crops listed above. Two months after application, growers can also seed canola, flax, lentils or alfalfa, the company said.
