Cereal crop protection from DuPont

Cereals Protection

INFORMATION & IDEAS

When tough broadleaf weeds invade your cereal crops, it’s no time for half-measures. You need action now. Barricade® II delivers powerful control of today’s problem weeds. With its new and more concentrated formulation, it leverages the strength of three active ingredients from 2 different groups (group 2 and group 4) to keep broadleaf weeds far away from your crop.

Good weed control is an important element in growing high quality malt barley. DuPont™ Triton® C is now registered for use in malt barley to control a unique spectrum of weeds including cleavers, round-leaved mallow, hemp-nettle and narrow-leaved hawk’s-beard.

An informative series of podcasts covering a range of topics related to weed control in Western Canada.

Dandelion is getting to be more and more of a problem everywhere. It won’t work to just burn off the tops. You need to get right down into the root system to get true control. Using the right herbicide program and spraying at the optimum time will help reduce dandelion populations year over year.

As patents relating to DuPont sulfonylurea (SU) herbicides expire, you’ll be seeing more generic SUs in the market. Here’s why branded DuPont sulfonylurea herbicides are still your best choice.

FarmCare® Finance is an industry leading crop finance program administered through crop protection retailers. Growers can qualify for PRIME rate financing when they purchase DuPont crop protection products and Pioneer® brand D-Series seed.

The DuPont™ FarmCare® Row Crop Rebate Program allows you to earn valuable rebates on purchases of top quality DuPont Crop Protection products.

What are you planting next year? As you weigh the possibilities, two industry observers take you inside key developments in the grains and oilseeds market this year and look ahead to 2013.

The latest StatsCan crop report tells a story of two seasons. In a year when prairie growers saw generally strong crop prices, putting a high-yielding crop in the bin wasn’t always easy. The big news? Canola production comes up well short of expectations.

Canadian producers use integrated pest management to control pests and maximize yields – both things that will be key to feeding a growing population.

New tools from DuPont solve major pest issues so Canadian producers can produce higher yields and better quality crops to feed a growing world population.

Weed resistance can threaten the long-term viability of any herbicide option. It’s important for growers to protect these tools. Research from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada shows that using herbicides with multiple groups in a single spray is one of the best ways to manage weed resistance.

In addition to our DuPont™ PrecisionPac® herbicides, retailers may also offer one of these partner products to help you customize your weed control.

It takes seeding into a clean seed bed and using weed control in other crops to grow high-yielding durum wheat. DuPont offers a range of weed control options to help your durum wheat crop reach its full potential.

This is the first-ever edition of FarmCare® Connected, an electronic publication issued four times each year by DuPont Crop Protection, created for FarmCare® Connect members.

Prairie growers were asked which annual broadleaf weeds they target with their herbicide programs. Wild buckwheat, kochia and stinkweed came to the top of the list. See what else they needed to control.