UTILITY VEHICLE--Case IH introduces a new line of rugged, four-wheel drive utility vehicles available in two sizes--compact and XL. This compact Case IH Scout UTV has a 14 hp gas engine, can reach 25 mph and fits in the back of a pickup truck. The new Case IH UTV lineup includes: Case IH Scout, a two-passenger, 14 hoursepower gasoline-powered mid-size UTV; and Case IH Scout XL, available in two-passenger and four-passenger versions, with gas or diesel engines, with 23 hp gas/20 hp diesel. For more information, call 877-4CASEIH or visit www.caseih.com/NA.

REMANUFACTURED PARTS--Bobcat Company announces the addition of a new line of remanufactured parts for Bobcat compact loaders, excavators and utility vehicles. First introduced in 2007, the Duracore^TM product line offered remanufactured engines, starters and alternators. Recently, remanufactured parts including turbos, injection pumps and injectors have been added to the Duracore^TM line. The advantages of purchasing remanufactured parts include cost savings, efficient equipment performance and less impact on the environment. For more information, call a local Bobcat dealer, or visit www.bobcat.com/duracore.

EPA approves new herbicide

BASF announced 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's unique chemistry is specifically designed to solve growers' toughest broadleaf weed control challenges across a wide range of crops. It inhibits a key step in chlorophyll biosynthesis, called protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase (PPO), resulting in fast, effective control of broadleaf weeds.

The Kixor discovery team started with a class of chemistry called the benzoisothiazoles, potent herbicides but with only soil activity and little crop selectivity. Opening the isothiazole ring and optimizing the resulting side chain was key to creating this new breed of PPO inhibitor that possesses high levels of soil and foliar activity on a broad spectrum of broadleaf weeds and tolerance across a wide range of crops.

Kixor is the only herbicide technology in the pyrimidinedione class of chemistry that will be available in the North American market. Kixor is labeled for use on a wide range of crops, including corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, cereals, cotton, pulses, sunflower (desiccation), citrus, pome fruit and nut trees and for fallow and post-harvest use. Kixor provides broad-spectrum control on more than 70 tough broadleaf weeds, including those that have become more tolerant of glyphosate, such as common lambsquarters, marestail, Russian thistle, waterhemp, common ragweed and giant ragweed. Kixor has shown in approximately 1,700 field trials to deliver superior burndown and soil residual activity during 10 years of research and development.

Sharpen herbicide, powered by Kixor, tackles tough broadleaf weeds in a number of crops, including cereals, corn, cotton, fallow, grain sorghum, pulses, soybeans and sunflower (desiccation). Field and row crop research has shown that Sharpen provides excellent burndown control when applied preplant and preemergence. Sharpen can also be used for sunflower desiccation or fallow and postharvest treatments. In field trials, Sharpen controlled weeds three to five times faster than 2,4-D or glyphosate. Sharpen also offers preplant interval flexibility, which provides growers with fast, flexible burndown of broadleaf weeds across a wide range of crops, saving growers time and providing them with added confidence that broadleaf weeds are controlled.

OpTill herbicide is a combination of Kixor herbicide plus imazethapyr. This product offers fast, complete burndown plus residual weed control in soybeans, chickpeas and peas when applied preplant through preemergence. OpTill controlled weeds three to five times faster than 2,4-D or glyphosate in field trials. It also offers preplant interval flexibility. OpTill combines fast burndown and residual weed control to allow better timing for in-crop glyphosate applications, so growers save time and money.

Integrity herbicide is Kixor herbicide plus dimethenamid-p, which together create a broad-spectrum herbicide for weed control in corn. Integrity offers growers the power and complete control they need on a broad spectrum of grass and broadleaf weeds. It has fewer use restrictions than atrazine, provides ease of handling with its low use rate and offers burndown and residual control, all in one product.

Designed for directed, postemergence applications in bearing and nonbearing tree crops (citrus fruit, pome fruit and nut trees), Treevix herbicide offers targeted, fast and complete burndown of the toughest broadleaf weeds. Treevix controls weeds fast and acts as a complement to glyphosate for broad-spectrum control of more than 60 broadleaf weeds. While tough on weeds, Treevix is a tree-safe, non-volatile herbicide. Treevix is formulated for easy tank-mixing with other herbicides to provide a complete, flexible weed-control program, so growers and pest-control advisers can manage broadleaf weeds in their orchards for better long-term profitability.

For more information, call a local BASF business representative, or visit www.kixorherbicide.com.

EPA approves seed treatment

Chemtura has received Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registration for RANCONA Pinnacle, an innovative new seed treatment and the latest addition to the unique family of RANCONA seed amendments. RANCONA Pinnacle gives growers the ability to access all the distinctive seed and seedling disease protective features of RANCONA in a ready-to-use product for wheat and barley seed.

RANCONA Pinnacle is proven to be highly efficacious against a majority of seed and soil-borne fungi which cause seed decay, damping-off and seedling blight in the plant pathogenic fungal classes of Zygomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes, and Fungi Imperfect (Deuteromycetes).

RANCONA Pinnacle contains ipconazole, a triazole fungicide, which is the same active ingredient in RANCONA 3.8 FS. To complement the performance advantage of ipconazole, RANCONA Pinnacle also contains metalaxy for pythium protection-all in a convenient, ready-to-use formulation.

RANCONA Pinnacle is a microdispersion formulation which is specially designed for cereal crops. It features an extremely low viscosity, which is much thinner than other flowable crop protection products.

This formulation has minimal sediment and its versatility means it handles well during the application process under a wide range of temperatures and conditions. It provides good seed coloration, low dust, uniform coverage and excellent flowability of treated seeds.

"RANCONA has proven to be an outstanding crop protection tool for wheat, combining excellent control of a range of important seed and soil-borne diseases including true loose smut and Fusarium seedling blight, as well as foot rots with improved stand establishment which can equate to higher yields," said Mike McFatrich, North American Business Lead for Seed Enhancements, Chemtura. "With the inclusion of pythium protection, RANCONA Pinnacle provides a convenient and complete package of disease protection for wheat and barley growers."

For more information, or visit www.tracechemicals.com.

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