Dow AgroSciences Canada has picked up Canadian registration for a dual-mode tank-mix to control shrubs, invasive plants and broadleaf weeds on rangeland and permanent pasture.
The Calgary-based arm of U.S. chemical firm Dow bills its new Reclaim tank-mix as a convenient option with a “favourable environmental profile,” adding that it’s also “safe to grass, with no grazing restrictions for beef cattle and non-lactating dairy animals.”
The product involves tank-mixing 2,4-D with another Group 4 active ingredient, aminopyralid, which are already co-packaged in another Dow Agro range and pasture tank-mix, Restore.
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But the aminopyralid component in Reclaim also includes metsulfuron-methyl, a Group 2 active ingredient in products such as DuPont’s Express Pro, Escort and Ally.
The product’s label covers it for “extended” control of western snowberry (buckbrush), prairie wild rose, shrubby cinquefoil, silverberry (wolf willow), Canada thistle, dandelion, pasture sage (fringed sage) and prairie sage in rangeland and permanent pasture.
Dow Agro’s Reclaim is expected to support environmental stewardship projects by helping manage invasive weeds in grassland areas “without the need to disrupt the ecosystem by tillage or mechanical removal,” the company said.
“Control lasts well beyond the year of application, meaning growers can wait an extended period of time before retreating,” Dow Agro said in a release last week.
“Reclaim is the first and only range and pasture management herbicide in Canada with registered claims to provide 12- and 24-month control of weed and shrub species,” Barry Gibbs, product registration manager with Dow AgroSciences, said in the same release.
Dow Agro marketing manager Jerry Olechowski said the new product will be “a much needed tool for the management of challenging shrub species including buckbrush, a growing problem in Western Canada for which control options are limited.”
