The highly-anticipated approval of a new kind of chemistry for weed control has finally happened.

BASF announced today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registration of a new active ingredient, Kixor® herbicide, for use on a wide range of crops and effective on more than 70 broadleaf weeds. Starting this fall, four formulations Powered by Kixor herbicide — Sharpen™ herbicide, OpTill™ herbicide, Integrity™ herbicide and Treevix™ herbicide — will be available to help growers tackle today’s weed control challenges in their fields.

“Kixor is a new herbicide technology specifically designed to address pressing weed concerns of today and tomorrow,” said Nevin McDougall, Group Vice President of BASF North America Crop Protection. “At a time when few new herbicides are being brought to market, BASF has remained steadfast in our commitment to bringing new solutions to growers to help them manage their fields and realize a higher return on the acre. The result is a breakthrough herbicide technology that gives growers a powerful tool in the fight against glyphosate resistance.”

We’ve been talking about the Kixor chemistry from BASF for well over a year now – you can find a number of posts here on Agwired about it if you do a search for Kixor – so it is great to see it finally approved by EPA. You can read more about it here from BASF.