Even with this year’s crop still in the field, growers at the Farm Progress Show this week are looking ahead to next year already and planning their weed management strategy.
We talked with FMC Senior Technical Manager Brent Neuberger, who handles the territory around the Farm Progress Show around Boone, Iowa about that planning and first using a pre-emergence herbicide.
Authority Herbicides & Fall Applications
“A fall-applied program using products like Authority XL really does a pretty good job on those winter annuals, especially in southern Iowa and Illinois, and Missouri,” he said. “It’s a function of what weeds they have issues with. With marestail, which there’s lots of glyphosate resistance, that’s where a fall application does a very good job.”
Neuberger talks about how FMC Authority products fits into an overall, long-term weed management approach for resistant weeds – FMC's Brent Neuberger comments on Authority and Fall Applications
Marvel Herbicide
Marvel herbicide is fairly new from FMC, introduced for soybean growers in March 2013, that also fits into an overall approach to weed management. “”Glyphosate resistance continues to make weed control more difficult,” said Neuberger. “Marvel is an excellent tank mix partner to go in with glyphosate because it’s two different products and will give improved waterhemp control, to better lambsquarters control and velvetleaf control. Marvel is a good fit for very good post-emerge weed control.”
Neuberger says Marvel has produced a lot of satisfied customers in its short time on the market.
Neuberger talks about Marvel herbicide
Overlap System Management Technique
Neuberger stresses the need to use a pre- and post-emerge weed management program, into which Authority products and Marvel fit very well. “I like to see an Authority product down, followed by a glyphosate-Marvel application,” he said. “That way we’re bringing in effective modes of action, both pre-emerge and post-emerge, so at the end of the year when a farmer is harvesting, he’s going to see a clean field.”
FMC Anthem herbicide also fits in that overlap approach with longer residual activity. “It’s really targeted towards the Amaranth species, whether it’s waterhemp or Palmer pigweed. We need to control as much as we can in the soil,” he explained. Neuberger explains importance of overlap management system
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