Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina
June 18, 2009
With a number of regions
experiencing shorter growing seasons this year because of
spring’s cool, wet weather, corn growers are paying particular
attention to their postemergence herbicide applications.
“The later you plant, the greater your risk for yield loss,”
said Jeff Springsteen,
Bayer CropScience
corn and soybean selective herbicides product manager. “The last
thing a grower wants or needs is for weed pressure to further
jeopardize yields, so growers will have even higher expectations
of their herbicides this year. Especially if they didn’t have
time to make pre-emergence herbicide applications before they
started planting.”
Laudis® herbicide from Bayer CropScience is one of the best
postemergence herbicide options for managing grass and broadleaf
weeds in corn.
Laudis, which was introduced in 2008, is approved for use on
field corn, white corn, seed corn, sweet corn and popcorn. It
has a flexible application window from VE up to V8 growth stages
in field corn and popcorn, and from VE up to V7 in sweet corn.
Laudis also offers a combination seen in few selective
herbicides: residual weed control and crop safety.
“There aren’t many products that seed corn companies allow to be
used on certain corn,” said Jon Silsby, retailer, TH
Agri-Chemicals, Inc., Union City, Mich. “Plus, we have weed
control challenges. Laudis happened to work extremely well
against those challenges because seed companies like the crop
safety, and growers like the broad-spectrum weed control.”
Silsby said wild-proso millet, lambsquarters, velvetleaf and
ragweed are the biggest weed concerns of his customers. The
residual control provided by Laudis was particularly important
when managing lambsquarters, velvetleaf and some grasses.
“Laudis worked extremely well on seed corn and popcorn,”
explained Silsby. “When the weeds were about a half-inch tall,
we would get some rain or irrigate, and then we’d see residual
activity take down those weeds.”
Silsby also said he thinks Laudis is safer on crops than other
selective postemergence herbicides he’s used. Springsteen
credited this crop safety to a proprietary safener that is part
of the Laudis formulation.
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fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer
CropScience AG, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual sales of
about EUR 6.4 billion (2008), is one of the world’s leading
innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop
protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant
biotechnology. The company offers an outstanding range of
products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable
agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer
CropScience has a global workforce of more than 18,000 and is
represented in more than 120 countries.
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Bayer.
Laudis is not registered in all states.
For additional product information call toll-free 1-866-99-BAYER
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