12/26/05 EPA okays Axial grass herbicide

12/26/05 EPA okays Axial grass herbicide

Farm and Ranch December 26, 2005 Syngenta Crop Protection recently announced its new cereal grains herbicide Axial had received a registration from the Environmental Protection Agency. The grass weed herbicide will be available for the 2006 growing season and is registered on winter wheat, spring wheat, and barley, not on durum wheat. Grassy weeds it controls of special interest to northwest cereal grain growers are Italian ryegrass, wild oats and windgrass, though it also controls several others. Axial is a Group 1 herbicide but based on new chemistry and is called a "den" for Pinoxaden. Brent Rockers, Syngenta Cereal Crops Products Manager, says that means Axial could be effective against some herbicide resistant biotypes. Rockers: "Our research trials show that where we have grasses in fields that may be showing resistance to one, or two of the Group 1 product, that this product is working." 1 Still Rockers emphasizes the need for herbicide resistance management. Syngenta sales representative Ric Wesselman explains what Axial will provide his customers. Wesselman: "Probably three things. The size of the crop. The window on the crop. The size of the grasses and not just one grass, across all grasses there is a wide window there. And crop safety and performance. This is a pretty quick product." Evaluations show Axial is safe on both wheat and barley even at twice the recommended rate. It has broadleaf tankmix flexibility, is rainfast in 30 minutes and has a very short half-life providing rotational crop flexibility. I'm Bob Hoff and that's the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on the Northwest Ag Information Network.
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