There is a product that has been getting great interest this year and that is FMC’s Solstice Herbicide for corn. While FMC is not onsite in Boone, IA this year, the company helped sponsor coverage of Farm Progress 2014.

To learn more about Solstice, I turned to Gail Stratman, FMC Midwest technical sales lead who explained how the product works and its benefits. Some of the key weeds Solstice controls include water hemp, lambsquarter, giant ragweed and growers who began using the product in 2014 have seen great success in control using the product.

First, Solstice is a two-mode action herbicide that kills weeds post emergence that other herbicides miss. In addition, Solstice offers broad-spectrum control and excellent crop safety, and is approved for use on field corn, seed corn, silage corn, popcorn and sweet corn. Stratman also said that the product may be applied anywhere from crop emergence through the V8 growth.

“One thing we’ve found when talking to growers and ag weed scientists, the key thing most of them emphasize is to use multiple modes of action,” explained Stratman. “One of the reasons we’ve gotten into some of the resistance issues we have is we’ve overused, or oversimplified, our weed control and we’ve relied specifically on glyphosate to control all of our weeds.”

He continued by stressing that due to resistance, “It’s very important to change the mode of action or include more modes of action in our weed control program and Solstice does exactly that. It adds two modes of action and when we combine that with glyphosate we now have three.”

To learn more about Solstice Herbicide for Corn listen to Cindy Zimmerman’s interview with Gail Stratman: Interview with Gail Stratman

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