It’s never too early to start thinking about weed control for next year. Ron Geis, market development specialist for Corteva, continues to encourage a program approach for farmers.
“Let’s start with something down at planting time, near planting time, and then come back with something post emerge. That way if Mother Nature throws us a curve and one of those two doesn’t quite work up to par, the two of them help complement each other to get good weed control for the season.”
Geis gives his recommendation for a program approach for corn growers.
“We like to start with a good foundation of Resicore®, Keystone®, or SureStart® and then follow that post emerge. We’re excited with a new product that we introduced last year in Kyro™. It brings a unique combination of three active ingredients that you can’t find together, providing weed control for 65 weeds and grasses.”
Geis says it’s a similar approach with soybeans, starting with that good foundation.
“In your area, we would offer a lot of Trivence® and Sonic® as that pre plant application. And then of course, we’re pretty excited because over half of the soybeans in the US are now Enlist enabled. So, when we come back post emerge we’d have Enlist as a foundation for that post application.
Geis teased a new residual herbicide to put with the Enlist that is still awaiting EPA approval. He says it won’t be available for fields this coming year, but he encourages you to keep an eye out for Enversa™ in their demo plots and ask about it for 2025.
