Studies have shown that yield losses in U.S. crops due to uncontrolled weeds exceed $20 billion annually.¹ As corn prices continue to fall, growers can’t afford to lose yield to pesky weeds and grasses in their corn fields.

Syngenta recommends the following for best practices for herbicide applications:

• Don’t ignore resistance problems: Use products with multiple, effective modes of action and overlapping residuals.
• Avoid yield loss by starting and staying clean: Start clean by using a tillage pass or a burndown herbicide. For additional weed control a pre-plant, pre-plant incorporated or pre-emergence herbicide may be used.
• Manage weed resistance with a post-emergence herbicide: Using a post-emergence herbicide with multiple modes of action and long-lasting residual can help manage weed resistance.

Solutions

By combining three modes of action, Halex® GT herbicide makes weed resistance one less thing growers have to worry about. Experts recommend adding atrazine (e.g. AAtrex® 4L or AAtrex Nine-O® herbicides) to Halex GT when possible for an additional mode of action and synergistic weed control. This combination can be applied up to 12″ corn. If atrazine cannot be used, add a dicamba product (e.g. NorthStar® herbicide).

Weed management can make or break corn yields. When choosing weed management products for the 2016 growing season, consider a post-emergence herbicide application that can help save time and money by providing more effective weed control.

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¹ Basu C, Halfhill MD, Mueller TC and Stewart Jr. CN, Weed genomics: new tools to understand weed biology. Trends in Plant Science; 9(8): 391-398 (2004).