Nufarm offers five new herbicides for cereal crops

Nufarm Americas Inc., Cary, N.C., has expanded its crop protection product line with the introduction of five new products that include the active ingredients tribenuron and thifensulfuron. These herbicides offer broad-spectrum weed control in cereals including wheat, barley, oats and triticale.

Treaty is a 75 percent wettable granule formulation of thifensulfuron. Treaty is designed for selective post-emergence broadleaf weed control, and can be used as a stand-alone herbicide or in combination with an many broadleaf and grass herbicides. Treaty can be used post-emergence on wheat, barley, oats and triticale as well as for fallow and preplant burndown with minimal crop rotation restrictions. It provides an economical post-patent alternative to Harmony XP herbicide.

Treaty Extra is a 75 percent wettable granule formulation of thifensulfuron and tribenuron in a 2:1 ratio designed to control a broad spectrum of broadleaf weeds. Treaty Extra can be used post-emergence on wheat (including durum), barley, oats and triticale as well as for fallow and preplant burndown with minimal crop rotation restrictions. Treaty Extra is a cost-effective alternative to Harmony Extra XP herbicide

Rapport TankMix is a 50 percent wettable granule formulation of thifensulfuron and tribenuron in a 4:1 ratio designed to manage tough broadleaf weeds like Canada thistle, lambsquarters, Russian thistle, dogfennel and wild buckwheat in wheat, barley and triticale, as well as in post-harvest burndown, preplant burndown and fallow applications. Rapport TankMix offers excellent flexibility as a tank mix partner while providing effective weed control of tough broadleaf weeds and safety to the growing crop. Rapport TankMix contains the same active ingredients as Affinity TankMix herbicide.

Rapport BroadSpec is a 50 percent wettable granule formulation of thifensulfuron and tribenuron in a 1:1 ratio. It is designed to control Canada thistle, wild buckwheat and a broad spectrum of other tough broadleaf weeds. Rapport BroadSpec can be used post-emergence, alone or tank-mixed, on wheat and barley and for fallow and preplant burndown applications, with minimal crop rotation restrictions. Rapport BroadSpec is an economical post-patent alternative to Affinity BroadSpec herbicide.

Victory is a 75 percent wettable granule formulation of tribenuron. Victory is designed for selective post emergence broadleaf weed control in wheat, barley, triticale, post harvest in cereals, fallow and pre-plant or post-harvest burndown. Victory Herbicide delivers Canada thistle control and control of many other tough broadleaf weeds and can be used as a stand-alone product or in tank mix combinations with broadleaf or grass herbicides. Tankmixes that include Victory herbicide in cereal grains reduce weed infestations and provide multiple crop rotation options.

"This extensive portfolio of new herbicides demonstrates the commitment of Nufarm to provide its customers with better choices to help make them make better business decisions," said Randy Canady, executive vice president of marketing and operations for Nufarm. "While Nufarm is better known for phenoxy and glyphosate products, we have many years of experience in worldwide sourcing, formulation and delivery of sulfonylurea herbicides," Canady said.

"Now, we're bringing better value to the cereal grains herbicide market here in the U.S. We now offer the widest post-patent portfolio of cereals herbicides to help our customers meet the needs for more efficient, profitable production."

For more information, call 919-342-5171, or visit www.nufarm.com/us.

Colostrum replacer has globulin protein protection for calves

AgriLabs, St. Joseph, Mo., introduces Colostrx 130 Colostrum Replacer, a complete replacement option for maternal colostrum. Colostrx 130 Colostrum Replacer contains a full 130 grams of globulin protein protection in every dose, the most of any other available colostrum replacer.

When calves don't receive adequate amounts of high-quality colostrum during the first few hours of life, they experience failure of passive transfer (FPT) and miss the life-saving benefits of immune proteins. Maternal colostrum can also directly transfer many diseases such as Johne's disease, tuberculosis and bovine leukemia virus (BLV).

"Colostrx 130 Colostrum Replacer is not a colostrum supplement, but a true replacement product for maternal colostrum that provides the highest available level of globulin protein protection," said David Zehendner, AgriLabs business unit manager. "So, whether the producer is facing a calf that's too weak or stressed to suckle, a herd that can't provide a disease-free source of maternal colostrum, or lack of time and available labor, Colostrx 130 Colostrum Replacer provides the perfect solution."

FPT in newborn calves is defined as a blood IgG level of less than 10 mg/mL at 24 to 48 hours after birth. "And, research shows nearly 20 percent of all dairy cows fail to produce colostrum yielding enough IgG globulin proteins to enable passive transfer," Zehendner said. "Calves that experience FPT are more likely to become sick or die in the first two months of life than calves with adequate immunity. Feeding Colostrx 130 Colostrum Replacer helps ensure every calf receives a consistently high level of globulin protein and totally eliminates the risk of feeding colostrum that is contaminated with bacteria or diseases such as Johne's, BLV, BVD and Mycoplasma."

Colostrx 130 Colostrum Replacer is highly concentrated, easily mixed in two quarts of warm water and requires only a single feeding. The individual, foil-wrapped packets make feeding simple and convenient. For best results, administer with a nipple pail, bottle or esophageal feeder within 24 hours after birth and then follow a normal feeding program.

For more information, call a local animal health professional, or visit www.agrilabs.com.

EPA approves new trait to control lepidopteran corn pests

Syngenta has reported the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted registration approval for its new Agrisure corn trait, referred to as the MIR162 event, which Syngenta will include in stacks with the Agrisure CB/LL trait for the control of a broad spectrum of lepidopteran corn pests. The approval is a key milestone in bringing to market a new mode of action for insect control in corn.

Pending all remaining regulatory and key import approvals, hybrids containing the new trait are anticipated to be available for planting in spring 2010. The trait will only be available stacked with either the Agrisure 3000GT trait stack for control of European corn borer, corn rootworm and glyphosate or glufosinate herbicide tolerance, or the Agrisure GT/CB/LL stack for control of European corn borer with glyphosate and glufosinate herbicide tolerance.

The MIR162 event uses a new proprietary technology from Syngenta that features a novel insecticidal protein called Vegetative Insecticidal Protein 3A (Vip3A). In Syngenta trials, the trait has been shown to provide enhanced control of a wide range of lepidopteran corn pests including corn earworm, western bean cutworm, black cutworm and fall armyworm.

Tracy Mader, marketing manager for Agrisure Corn Traits, said the technology, which represents a new mode of action for insect control in corn, is expected to deliver several key benefits. "Current corn insect control traits use Cry proteins," Mader said. "Although Vip3A targets pests in a manner similar to the Cry class of proteins, the two types of protein attack different sites on the pest's gut and have distinct modes of action.

"Just as using different herbicides can help reduce the potential for weeds developing resistance to herbicides, using different modes of action for insect control can reduce the risk for resistance development to these critical trait technologies."

For more information, visit www.syngenta.com.

Company gets EPA approval for seed treatment

Chemtura, Middlebury, Conn., has received another in a series of recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency registrations for seed amendments, this one for RANCONA Apex.

RANCONA Apex is an inventive new seed treatment product which allows the grower to access all the distinctive seed/seedling disease protective features of RANCONA in a ready-to-apply product for wheat and barley seed.

RANCONA Apex is highly efficacious against a majority of seed and soil-borne fungi in the plant pathogenic fungal classes of Zygomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes and Fungi Imperfect (Deuteromycetes) which cause seed decay, damping-off and seedling blight. RANCONA Apex, like RANCONA 3.8 FS, contains ipconazole, a triazole fungicide, but in a more user-friendly form.

RANCONA Apex is a microdispersion formulation which is specially designed for cereal crops. It features an extremely low viscosity, much thinner than other flowable crop protection products. This superior formulation has minimal sediment and it is easier to work with. It provides good seed coloration, low dust, uniform coverage and excellent flowability of treated seeds.

"RANCONA Apex has proved itself to be outstanding on wheat, combining excellent control of a range of important seed and soil-borne diseases, including true loose smut and Fusairum seedling blight as well as foot rots. Its improved stand establishment can equate to bigger yields. And MetaStar ST (containing metalaxyl) can be added to RANCONA Apex to extend protection of RANCONA Apex to Pythium," said Mike McFatrich, North American business lead for seed enhancements.

"The introduction of RANCONA Apex, as well as RANCONA 3.8 FS and the earlier offer of Enhance AW, provides growers options to traditional seed treatment products that are a step change in seed/seedling protection for cereals, soybeans and dry beans," he added. The release of these new seed treatment technologies is intended to provide product choices to meet the flexible treating requirements of those growers producing the targeted crops.

For more information, call 203-558-5026, or visit www.chemtura.com

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