Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina
October 2, 2008
Autumn herbicide can take down
the toughest weeds, including dandelion and marestail
If inclement summer weather contributes to a delayed 2008
harvest, corn and soybean growers will have less time to
complete their fall tillage practices. But the good news is
growers have another option for ridding fields of tough fall
weeds — including dandelion and marestail.
One application of Autumn™ herbicide, from
Bayer CropScience,
provides growers with the flexibility to control winter and even
early spring weeds when applied between harvest and ground
freeze.
Autumn can be used as a burndown treatment after harvest this
fall. Or, next spring, growers can use it up to 30 days before
planting corn or 90 days prior to planting soybeans.
Additionally, Autumn now allows growers another option for
burndown 90 days prior to planting sweet, seed and popcorn too.
Along with dandelion and marestail, the herbicide tackles common
winter annuals and perennials, including chickweed, hemp nettle,
henbit, horsenettle and purple deadnettle.
“Weeds such as chickweed and purple deadnettle can be less
responsive to herbicides when they bloom and flower,” says Jeff
Springsteen, Bayer CropScience corn herbicides marketing
manager. “That’s why it’s valuable to use an effective fall
burndown treatment as part of your weed-control program. This
helps ensure growers will get the weeds before they bloom and
flower next spring.”
In fact, The Ohio State University (OSU) weed control guide
suggests it’s best to control weeds as early as possible in the
weed-growth cycle.
The guide explains that fall herbicide treatments are extremely
effective tools for managing winter annual weeds and fields
where these weeds have been a problem in previous years. These
areas should be considered good candidates for fall herbicide
treatments.
Growers also have to face skyrocketing fuel prices, making the
process more expensive to till fields following harvest.
“This season growers could save fuel money and time by using a
burndown treatment like Autumn,” Springsteen says.
“Additionally, a fall treatment starts the fields off weed-free
in the spring, preventing potential planting delays.”
The herbicide also helps minimize weed-cover harboring pests,
such as black cutworms and soybean cyst nematodes.
With Autumn, growers have the option to tankmix with several
active ingredients, including Ignite® herbicide, glyphosate and
2,4-D.
“Autumn offers growers an outstanding mode of action to
complement glyphosate or Ignite for nonselective systems,”
Springsteen says. “It even improves the efficacy of these
systems by taking down glyphosate-tolerant and -resistant
weeds.”
Growers should apply Autumn at 0.3 oz/A.
For additional information on Autumn, growers can visit
www.BayerCropScienceUS.com or contact their local Bayer
CropScience representative; or, call 1-866-99-BAYER
(1-866-992-2937).
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about EUR 5.8 billion (2007), is one of the world’s leading
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