Posted: January 20, 2009

BASF Canada has received registration for Viper herbicide from Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA). According to a BASF news release, Viper is a broad-spectrum herbicide designed to control weeds in field peas.

Viper controls broadleaf weeds such as cow cockle, green smartweed, lamb's-quarters, redroot pigweed, shepherd's-purse, stinkweed, volunteer canola (including Clearfield canola), volunteer lentils (including Clearfield lentils) and wild mustard, including resistant biotypes. It also provides strong activity against cleavers, wild buckwheat and kochia, including resistant biotypes.

In addition to wild oats, including resistant biotypes, Viper controls barnyard grass, green foxtail (wild millet), Persian darnel, volunteer barley, volunteer canary seed, volunteer durum wheat, volunteer spring wheat (excluding Clearfield wheat), volunteer tame oats and yellow foxtail. It also provides suppression of Japanese Brome grass.

Posted: January 20, 2009

Bayer CropScience recently announced the registration of a new herbicide for wheat. Velocity M3 is being billed as a combination herbicide which offers wheat and durum growers across Western Canada another tool for grass and broadleaf control.

Velocity M3, which will be made available to growers for the 2009 season, is intended for control of wild oats, green foxtail and barnyard grass, as well as 15 common broadleaf weeds. Bayer CropScience trials also showed suppression of weeds such as Canada thistle, Persian darnel and Yellow foxtail.

The new herbicide is composed of three active ingredients. The first is pyrasulfotole, the new Group 27 active ingredient Bayer CropScience introduced in 2008. Also included are thiencarbazone-methyl, a new Group 2 ALS-inhibitor, and bromoxynil, a Group 6 herbicide.

More information is available in this news release on the Bayer CropScience Web site.