New Premixed Herbicides Can Provide Broad-spectrum Control

By Tyler Harris

In the last 30 years, there haven’t been any new modes of action (MOAs) introduced from chemical companies. However, recently, growers have some new tools available to them to mix up their MOAs using existing technologies, notes Debalin Sarangi, weed science postdoctoral research associate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

“Many of them have one or two new active ingredients, but no new mode of action. They’re using the same herbicide chemistry we’ve had for last few decades, just making a cocktail,” Sarangi says. “In one herbicide premix, you get multiple modes of action, and it can provide a broad-spectrum weed control.”