Excellent pyroxsulam performance this season

UK - January 30, 2012

Applications of Dow AgroSciences pyroxsulam-based products in autumn 2011 are already starting to pay dividends, according to initial feedback.

Broadway Sunrise (pyroxsulam + pendimethalin), launched in 2010, and GF-2070 (pyroxsulam + flupyrsulfuron-methyl) introduced last autumn are proving their worth in the fight against grassweeds including blackgrass, ryegrass, wild oats and brome;  as well as broad-leaved weeds such as volunteer beans, speedwells and cranesbill.

Blackgrass control has been particularly successful, with a farmer near Rochford, Essex reporting excellent results from a GF-2070 treatment last November. 

Dow AgroSciences’ cereal herbicide specialist Stuart Jackson says: “Calls to our hotline are highlighting opportunities for these products in spring 2012. The products work well in wheat drilled late after potatoes or sugar beet. Both products offer robust blackgrass control and after sugar beet will provide effective control of volunteers as well as a wide range of other grass and broad-leaved weeds.

“When targeting first and second wheats drilled earlier in the autumn it is important to treat as soon as active growth is detected. The smaller the weed, the more effective control will be.”

Broadway Sunrise and GF-2070 offer both contact and residual modes of action. Thus Mr Jackson urges growers not to delay treatment. 

“Early control will be important this spring as autumn weather conditions meant autumn-applied residual treatments have run out of steam earlier than normal,” says Mr Jackson.

With the additional bonus of no following crop restrictions growers have complete flexibility on future cropping plans without the need for specific cultivations.