A new herbicide with three active ingredients from Groups 2 and 4 is expected to help growers manage the risk of herbicide-resistant broadleaf weeds developing in cereal crops.
DuPont Canada on Thursday announced Barricade, which the company said is approved for control of broadleafs including cleavers, kochia, volunteer canola, wild buckwheat, wild mustard, stinkweed and others.
It’s also registered for suppression of Russian thistle and Canada thistle, DuPont said.
The product is registered for use in spring wheat, durum and spring barley crops from the two-leaf stage up to the full flag leaf stage, the company said.
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Jon Gough, the company’s product manager for cereal crop protection, said the three actives are expected to make Barricade “an effective resistance management tool, particularly on fields where both cleavers and kochia are a problem.”
The product’s specific active ingredients weren’t listed in Thursday’s release or posted yet on its website Monday.
Barricade is rainfast in an hour, breaks down quickly in soil and carries no cropping restrictions for the following year, the company said.
Barricade is to be sold by the 40-acre case, containing a 486-gram jug of dry herbicide and a 6.4-litre jug of liquid herbicide.
Barricade’s dry component comes in the company’s Solumax soluble granules, which it bills as allowing the active ingredients to dissolve “completely” into solution, for quick absorption by weeds and ease of spray tank cleanout.
