Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina
April 8, 2008
Corn, soybean and cereals growers
know that weed control is a good practice. But weed management
is even better.
Weed management means addressing weeds before they cause
significant economic impact in your corn fields—not simply
eliminating weeds, regardless of size or type.
Applying a pre-emergence product, such as Balance®Pro herbicide,
as part of a two-pass program means weeds won’t compete with
your corn crop for essential nutrients, water and light that
would maximize yield potential.
Balance Pro, from
Bayer CropScience, controls more than 50 broadleaf weeds and
grasses, including: woolly cupgrass, waterhemp, lambsquarters
and velvetleaf. With the power of Recharge™, Balance Pro
controls emerged weeds up to 2 inches tall with just a half-inch
of rain.
“Once weeds begin to deprive the crop of resources [essential
for plant growth], the yield potential can be negatively
impacted,” according to a weed management study released by Iowa
State University. “With today’s effective herbicides,
application timings should be based not only on the ability of a
herbicide to kill weeds, but also on the weeds’ potential to
impact yields early in the growing season.”
Because timing is so critical, most weed scientists recommend
growers use a pre-emergence herbicide to address weed control
early and provide some residual, which also can help widen the
window of application timing for post herbicides.
Jeff Springsteen, Bayer CropScience marketing manager for corn
herbicides, including Balance Pro and Laudis™ herbicides, agrees
that an early preplant or preemergence herbicide application is
an effective and economical way to help corn growers eliminate
weeds early and preserve yield potential.
“Corn yield losses from weed competition can start by the time
some weeds are less than 4 inches tall,” says Springsteen.
“Balance Pro puts another active ingredient in growers’ fields
to knock out broadleaf weeds and grasses early; plus, another
mode of action can contribute to weed resistance management.”
He notes that field trials prove that Balance Pro followed by a
postemergence application of Liberty® herbicide or Laudis
herbicide virtually eliminates tough broadleaf weeds and
grasses, such as pigweeds, kochia, marestail, waterhemp,
barnyardgrass and shattercane from a corn crop.
Balance Pro alone, when tankmixed with atrazine, can control
early weed competition by reducing numbers, size and vigor,
ultimately enhancing the performance of Roundup® for total weed
control in a corn crop.
In addition, the flexibility of Balance Pro enables it to work
in traditional herbicide programs. Growers can apply the product
for burndown, or as early pre-plant, pre-plant incorporated or
pre-emergence applications.
For more information about Balance Pro, you can visit
www.BayerCropScienceUS.com. Once there, you can review the
Balance Pro label, application instructions and frequently asked
questions.
For additional information specific to approval and use in
specific states, corn growers are encouraged to contact their
local Bayer CropScience representative; or, call 1-866-99-BAYER
(1-866-992-2937).
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the
fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer
CropScience AG, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual sales of
about EUR 5.8 billion (2007), is one of the world’s leading
innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop
protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant
biotechnology. The company offers an outstanding range of
products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable
agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer
CropScience has a global workforce of about 17,800 and is
represented in more than 120 countries. |
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