Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
March 2, 2017
With fluctuating commodity prices and the need to maximize returns, crop rotation flexibility is top of mind for wheat growers.
With the right herbicide program, wheat growers can control weeds and maintain the flexibility to rotate to crops that market conditions favor. Quelex™ herbicide, which received registration last fall, offers outstanding broadleaf weed control and allows for more cropping options.
Wrong choice now could limit next year’s planting decisions
When selecting herbicides, it is important to consider not only what weeds need to be controlled but also what might go in the ground next.
“Wheat growers are expanding into crops they haven’t historically grown, such as cotton and canola, and there’s been an increase in double-cropping sorghum and soybeans on wheat acres,” says Abe Smith, market development specialist, Dow AgroSciences. “The rotational benefits of Quelex herbicide allow growers to customize programs and increase the opportunity to break up a wheat-after-wheat planting cycle.”
Quelex herbicide offers rotational flexibility to high-value crops, as this table shows:
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Crop
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Rotational Interval*
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Barley, wheat, triticale
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0 months
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Oat, field corn, cotton, popcorn, seed corn, sugarcane, sweet corn, millet, grasses, soybean, sorghum, sunflower, rice
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3 months
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Canola (fall-seeded)
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5 months
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Alfalfa, camelina, canola (spring-seeded)**, chickpea, dry bean, peas (dry and succulent)
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9 months
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*Minimum number of months before planting other crops after application of Quelex herbicide. **Testing being conducted to reduce rotational intervals for canola.
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Get the most from every acre
To cope with low commodity prices, growers want to aim for the highest possible returns.
“Increasingly, the focus is on production efficiency,” Smith says. “With Quelex herbicide, growers can produce a clean wheat crop and gain the flexibility to explore a double-cropping production system. Planting a second crop can boost the profitability of each acre. Under current market conditions, double-cropping systems offer a real value to wheat growers.”
Powerful weed control
Crop rotation flexibility does not mean much if weed competition limits yield potential. Quelex™ herbicide offers wheat growers two modes of action to control broadleaf weeds, including resistant biotypes.
Arylex™ active, the first active ingredient of a new chemical family of Group 4 herbicides, is an effective tool for ALS- and glyphosate-resistant weed management. Wheat growers can control 28 broadleaf weeds with Quelex, including resistant henbit, chickweed, marestail, mustards, common lambsquarters and redroot pigweed.
“Quelex is tank-mix-compatible with other herbicides for cross-spectrum control and can be applied with UAN/liquid fertilizer to fit into current cropping practices,” Smith says. “Growers can tank-mix Quelex with MCPA ester, 2,4-D ester or dicamba to round out the weed spectrum and ensure sound control of troublesome plants like bushy wallflower or kochia.”
For more information, visit FlexibleWeedControl.com.
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