Dicamba Dilemma
Taylor Janicek, NACHURS DSM • June 15, 2020
“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision, Wednesday, June 3, 2020, vacating the registrations of three dicamba herbicides, XtendiMax (Bayer), Engenia (BASF), and FeXapan (Corteva). The ruling does not appear to include Syngenta’s Tavium dicamba herbicide.
The ruling has enormous implications for farmers this summer, given that roughly 60 million of dicamba-tolerant cotton and soybeans were slated for 2020 planting, with the expectation that farmers could use dicamba over the top for weed control.” (Unglesbee, 2020)
While the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has responded that they are disappointed with the ruling and currently assessing all avenues to mitigate the impact of the Court’s decision, farmers are looking towards other active ingredient options to utilize. Residual herbicides applied after planting are important for weed managements tools for early season weed control until crop reaches canopy. Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) inhibiting herbicides (Group 14) are applied widely for residual weed control in soybean. Once applied, several factors can affect weed control efficacy and crop safety.
NACHURS Finish Line®
can help ease the crop safety concerns while using PPO. This fully packed foliar fertilizer contains NACHURS Bio-K as well as fulvic acid to help “cool down” a cell disruptor (like PPOs) and has the nutrition to aid in quick recovery.
For the conscientious grower who wants to maximize yield potential, NACHURS Finish Line is a micronutrient enriched premium foliar fertilizer that provides nutrients to crops at critical growth stages. Unlike other foliar fertilizers, NACHURS Finish Line is a balanced nutrition package containing organic acids, compatibility agents and is powered by Bio-K®.
- NACHURS Finish Line is a truly unique balanced NPK foliar fertilizer that provides significant ROI on all crops.
- Contains a package of organic acids to enhance nutrient uptake and alleviate chemical burn.
- NACHURS Finish Line contains Bio-K technology, which offers the greatest level of soluble and available potassium and is taken up by the plant faster than other sources of potassium.
- Contains significantly higher levels of micronutrients than competitive products which are necessary for hormone and enzyme activation essential for maximum genetic yield potential.
- Micronutrients are fully chelated to ensure compatibility with pesticides and other fertilizers.
- Compatibility agents make it easier to tank-mix NACHURS Finish Line with other products and aids in nutrient uptake.
- Low use rate makes product convenient to use.
Help your crops reach the winner’s circle with NACHURS Finish Line.
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The effect of foliar fertilization on wheat yield.
We are at the point in the year where things are slowing down around the farm and it is time to reflect on the season to remind ourselves what we learned. Over the last couple of weeks, the District Sales Managers and I have spent some time reflecting on what worked well in the field and the challenges we faced too. Here are the top 5 things we learned from 2024 growing season: #1 Split applying Nitrogen and Sulfur is a practice that should be embraced on a yearly basis when growing corn. Do you remember how the planting season started and what happened in the first 60 days after the planters started rolling? Our field conditions started out dry with some areas of the corn belt showing up on the drought map. Then mother nature blessed us with rain that never stopped in some areas making it difficult to finish planting. Growers that had split applied their Nitrogen and Sulfur were able to avoid nutrient loss from the rain but also apply the nutrients when the crop needed it most. In the end yield was better on split applied nitrogen fields compared to fields that had all the N applied in the fall or spring before planting. #2 For the past 2 seasons in the North region, we have seen the benefits of adding NACHURS Humi-Flex FA to the in-furrow starter fertilizer. NACHURS Humi-Flex FA is our fulvic acid and it is becoming a valuable component in our starter fertilizer for many reasons. We are using it to chelate the nutrients in the starter fertilizer especially phosphorus. Humi-Flex FA also buffers the soil pH to neutral in that nutrient band keeping nutrients available in fields that have less then optimal pH for crop growth. Finally, we use Humi-Flex FA to create a healthy soil microbiome that leads to more root mass and nutrient uptake. #3 Nutrient uptake charts for corn and soybeans have been a great tool for our team to help our customers visualize the crops nutrient needs based on timing during the growing season.
