Chemical company BASF Canada plans to make its new Group 1 tepraloxydim herbicide Equinox “broadly available” across Western Canada for the 2008 growing season.
The post-emergent dicot graminicide was only available “in limited quantities” to farmers in 2007, the company said in a release Tuesday.
Equinox is registered for use in pea, flax and lentil crops. BASF said Tuesday it has also applied for approval to expand the Equinox label to cover the product’s use in canola crops.
The product controls grassy weeds including green foxtail, wild oats and volunteer barley at the 40- or 60-acre per case rate at the one- to six-true-leaf stage, up to two tillers, BASF said. Equinox also controls quackgrass at the 32-acre per case rate when applied at the three- to six-true-leaf stage.
The product is sold in 3.24-litre jugs, each packaged with an 8.1-litre jug of BASF’s adjuvant Merge.
