Industrial Forestry

Today’s industrial foresters wear many hats. You face ongoing pressures from shrinking budgets, environmental groups, company mergers and contractors, while simply doing what you love – producing healthy trees. By controlling vegetative competition with herbicides, you ensure that the benefits by other cultural treatments, including genetic improvement and fertilization, are fully captured¹.

Site preparation

The Dow AgroSciences portfolio of site-preparation herbicides provides you a variety of products that can help clear the area for fresh seedlings. We offer several herbicides perfect for burn or no-burn sites; stand-alone or mechanical-chemical sites; sensitive sites; and sites with volunteer pine and tough-to-control species. These site preparation tools include
Accord^® Concentrate, Accord^® XRT II, DMA^® 4 IVM, Forestry Garlon^® XRT, Garlon 3A, Milestone^® VM Plus, Tordon^® K, Tordon 101M, Transline^® and Vista^® herbicides.

Meeting the Demand: Southeast Site Preparation (2.8MB PDF)

Southeast Forestry Rate Matrix (105KB PDF)

Herbaceous release

After site preparation, some foresters continue to improve their stands by controlling unwanted vegetation during the first few growing seasons. Other foresters utilize release as the primary vegetation management treatment. Either way, Dow AgroSciences offers several release solutions for hardwood, mixed species and pine plantations. The following can be used alone or in tank mixes for release applications: Accord Concentrate, Forestry Garlon XRT, Pathway^®, Pathfinder^® II, Garlon 3A and Transline herbicides.

Meeting the Demand: Forestry Treatments (505KB PDF)

Southeast Forestry Rate Matrix (105KB PDF)

Mid/Late rotation understory release

Foresters wanting to reduce the time between harvest and planting oftentimes release the understory in the latter years of a stand. By controlling this competing vegetation late in the tract’s life, you can improve accessibility, shorten the rotation, reduce the threat of damage to trees from fire and enhance wildlife habitat. Dow AgroSciences offers a variety of herbicides suitable for mid- and late-rotation release, including Accord Concentrate, Accord XRT II, Garlon 3A, Forestry Garlon XRT and Vista herbicides.

Meeting the Demand: Forestry Treatments (505KB PDF)

Southeast Forestry Rate Matrix (105KB PDF)

Other uses

Whether it’s managing brush outbreaks along your access road or trying to increase wildlife populations, there are solutions to your vegetation problems. Even if you are strip thinning Northern conifer stands or managing a Christmas tree plantation, Dow AgroSciences products will help you reach your objective.

Meeting the Demand: Forestry Treatments (505KB PDF)

Southeast Forestry Rate Matrix (105KB PDF)

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