What you know: you plan to add another mode of action or two to your spring glyphosate application, because you know that’s a big step toward protecting your future glyphosate use.
What you’re wondering: should you be adding a familiar and heavily used mode of action, or one that’s a bit off the beaten path?
Take spring wheat, for example. There’s a good chance you’ll be using a Group 2 and/or Group 4 for your in-crop application. Layering in novel modes of action pre-seed/pre-emergent is an excellent resistance management strategy.
Lentils have a shortage of in-crop herbicide options. This puts more pressure on your pre-seed application because you want to start the season as close to weed-free as possible. If your lentils emerge into a weedy field, you face an uphill climb to finish with a high-yielding crop.
In both cases, spring wheat and lentils, Focus® herbicide provides a complete weed control solution and a great option for delaying herbicide resistance. In one easy-to-use product, you have broad-spectrum broadleaf and grassy weed control for enhanced pre-seed burnoff plus extended control.
Focus® herbicide can be applied pre-seed, pre-emergence or in the fall, with or without glyphosate. Because it contains Group 14 and 15 modes of action, it’s a smart change of pace from more familiar add-in modes of action, especially those that could be needed in-crop later on in the season.
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In spring wheat, Focus® herbicide introduces different modes of action. You can save Groups 2 and 4 for your in-crop application, giving you an effective herbicide layering strategy. In lentils, Focus® herbicide is a dependable way to start your growing season strongly, with fewer weed headaches the rest of the way.
For activation, Focus® herbicide requires at least ½ inch of moisture. Applying Focus® herbicide in the fall can achieve the necessary activation via snowmelt. This will also provide early-season control or suppression of labelled weeds the following spring.
Growers of spring wheat and lentils are especially well-served by Focus® herbicide. It provides a complete weed control solution while delivering Group 14 and 15 activity to reduce the risk of herbicide resistance.
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Choose the right rate of Focus® herbicide
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40 acres/jug |
33 acres/jug |
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Coarse/medium soil texture (1-3 % O.M.) |
Medium-fine/fine soil texture (>3 – 7% O.M.) |
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BURNOFF WEED CONTROL |
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Flixweed, lamb’s-quarters, morning glory, Pennsylvania smartweed, pigweeds, purslane, round-leaved mallow, stinkweed, tansy mustard, waterhemp (tall and common) |
All the weeds controlled at the 40-acre rate, plus: carpetweed, cleavers, cocklebur, jimsonweed, kochia, Russian thistle (up to 5cm), shepherd’s purse, volunteer canola (including glyphosate tolerant) |
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EXTENDED WEED CONTROL |
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Annual Grasses: Annual bluegrass, barnyard grass, downy brome, foxtail barley*, giant foxtail*, green foxtail, Italian ryegrass, Japanese brome, large crabgrass, wild oats*, yellow foxtail Broadleaf Weeds: Cleavers, kochia*, lamb’s quarters*, pigweeds, stinkweed*, velvet leaf, waterhemp (common), wild buckwheat*, wild mustard*, wormseed mustard |