december 14, 2007

Dupont rolls out new soy herbicides

DuPont Crop Protection has received federal registration approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency for two soy pre-emergence herbicides.

The new products, DuPont Enlite and Envive herbicides, feature two modes of action that will provide growers with early season control of weeds that have developed tolerance and/or  resistance to glyphosate and ALS chemistries.

According to Jim Collins, vice president and general manager, DuPont Crop Protection, the new herbicides harness the proprietary homogenous blend technology from DuPont which enables rapid development of new herbicides with multiple active ingredients for improved resistance management.

The new herbicides combine flumioxazin and DuPont sulfonylurea herbicides for consistent weed control, even under cool, wet conditions.

Both provide contact plus residual control of winter annuals, marestail, lambsquarters, dandelion and other glyphosate- and ALS-resistant weeds. This gives growers early season control that lasts long enough to make post herbicide applications closer to crop canopy.

The Envive herbicide blend was designed to control waterhemp and is suited for use by growers in the longer growing seasons of the  central and southern regions of the United States.

Enlite herbicide, which has no soil pH restrictions, allows growers in the northern regions of the US better plant back options when rotating from soys to corn or cereal crops.

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