Is Your Corn Experiencing Rapid Growth and You’re Wondering About Your Herbicide Options?

Is Your Corn Experiencing Rapid Growth and You’re Wondering About Your Herbicide Options?

The 2023 corn crop has finally began the “rapid growth” stage across Ohio and many growers are asking about what their herbicide options are with varying growth stages and heights within fields. Listen in this week as we revisit this very topic from last growing season.

PCT Shorts: Staging Corn in Varying Growing Conditions

Today’s PCT Short covers staging your corn in varying growing conditions when staging based on leaf growth may not be accurate.

 

JJ in the Field: Is Your Corn Outgrowing Your Herbicide? Do You Know Your Corn’s Growth Stage?

Rapid corn growth, varying plant size across fields make it very challenging to make “on-label” herbicide applications. Tune in as we talk about some popular corn herbicides and associated label “cut-offs” and use rates.

Protect and Defend Your Crops with Croprotek

Protect and Defend Your Crops with Croprotek. Our Croprotek® lineup of products is designed to defend your crop from insects, weeds, diseases and nitrogen loss at varying growth stages. Croprotek seed treatments are custom blended with options such as fungicide, insecticide, and a dry seed finisher to provide superior protection in soybean production. The treatments include “early season” nutrition to assist in uniform emergence, vigor and health with our corn seed overtreatment.

2,4-D LV6: a Group-4 solventless ester 2,4-D herbicide formulation for agricultural weed control.

Atrazine 4L: a Group-5 Atrazine herbicide for season-long weed control in a 4 pound gallon.

Metribuzin EXT: a Group-5 Metribuzin herbicide for control of certain grasses and broadleaf weeds in an extruded formulation.

MetriChlor Pre: a metribuzin/S-metolachlor herbicide blend for control of certain grasses and broadleaf weeds in potatoes and soybeans.

Corn Seed Overtreatment: a seed overtreatment with early-season micronutrients and other beneficial ingredients via seed-applied treatment “on top” of a previously applied fungicide and insecticide seed treatment.

Soybean Seed Overtreatment: a seed overtreatment with early season micronutrients and other beneficial attributes applied “on top” of a previously applied fungicide and insecticide seed treatment.

Premium ST: a premium custom blend fungicide and insecticide soybean seed treatment.

Standard ST: a custom blend fungicide only soybean seed treatment.

N-Save: an NBPT (N-(nbutyl) thiophosphoric triamide)-based nitrogen stabilizer for use with urea-based nitrogen fertilizers, preventing ammonia volatilization.

N-Save Pro: is an NBPT (N-(nbutyl) thiophosphoric triamide) and DCD (Dicyandiamide) combination nitrogen stabilizer that provides protection against volatility, leaching and denitrification in both below and above ground applications of urea and urea containing fertilizers.

Permeate SC: a proprietary blend of ammonium laurel sulfate (ALS) fortified with organic acids developed to improve downward water movement and increase infiltration into the soil profile.

These products have been specially formulated to defend your crop at multiple growth stages and are compatible with other seed treatments, inoculants, pesticides, fungicides and fertilizers. Contact a PCT | Sunrise representative for more information on how to Protect and Defend Your Crops with PCT Croprotek.