Bayer offers up new herbicide combo to dog resistant weeds early

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Published: July 16, 2024

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Bayer’s Ashley Smith says Huskie PRE “fills that critical gap” for cereal growers trying to control resistant weeds in the West.

[UPDATED] – Bayer’s Crop Science division’s Ag in Motion site offers Prairie wheat growers a first look at a new-to-Western Canada pre-burn herbicide combo.

The company on Tuesday announced the release of Huskie PRE, a combination of pyrasulfotole (Group 27) and bromoxynil (Group 6), registered for pre-emergent application on barley, triticale and spring, winter and durum wheat fields.

“Tank mixes currently available are limited in their effectiveness against kochia resistant to both Group 2 and Group 9 herbicides,” Ashley Smith, Bayer’s crop protection marketing manager for Western Canada, said in a release.

Huskie PRE, she said, is a specially-designed and “extremely potent” broad-spectrum product for pre-burn only, to be added to Roundup before cereal crops.

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It becomes the “first known product on market to control Group 2, 4, 5, 9 and 14-resistant kochia species in Western Canada.”

The pyrasulfotole molecule, she said, is best known as the active in Bayer’s Infinity, Infinity FX and Velocity.

Weed resistance issues such as kochia show that “in-crop application is not always enough,” the company said.”

“When we look at weed management, we want to control kochia in particular at the early stage; we want to get right up out of the ground for that critical weed-free period,” Smith said at Ag in Motion on Tuesday, adding the product will help take some of the stress and strain off in-crop application.

Huskie PRE is expected to be commercially available for the 2025 growing season, in 20-acre jugs, 320-acre drums and/or 1,000-acre totes, Bayer said.

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