Sunday, December 31, 2006

New Wild Oat and Millet Product shows promise: Axial

Product
I've become a fan of Axial from Syngenta for wild oat and millet control in cereals. Of course I like it better now that we will have access to it this year. I've seen it on about 1500 acres last year ( all barley). Crop safety was really good. I'm tired of kicking the heck out of a crop when you apply herbicide and so far (only one year!!) Axial has been very friendly to the barley I've seen.

Three other notes on Axial:

  • It will be premium priced at $1 to $2 more per acre. (We will see if that holds)
  • Evidence points to Axiel breaking group one resistance issues. I have not tested this one. I hope it gives us another option, we will see this year
  • I'm not up on tankmixes with Axial. It will have to show a good range like Puma or Horizon or Achieve to gain a majority of our market share