Supply of Huskie should be adequate in 2010
Farm and Ranch December 29, 2009 Bayer CropScience representative Al Sartini estimates that the company’s Huskie herbicide was used on just under one million acres in the Pacific Northwest in 2009. Supplies of the herbicide got tight last year but Sartini says there will be very adequate supplies in 2010. Sartini: “The thing that makes it so popular is that it is a total new mode of action for broadleaf weed control and it is dealing with the weeds that are resistant to the ALS chemistry. And it has done an exceedingly good job and it has done it very safely. And the thing I like about it is growers that used it in 2008 used more of it in 2009 and are telling me they are going to use more of it again in 2010.” Sartini says Huskie is dynamite on china lettuce, good on Russian thistle, quite good on kochia and excellent on all of the mustard species. Sartini: “In spring wheat the application, basically all you need is roughly 13 ounces of Huskie and that will take care of all the weeds that are there. In winter wheat it is a little bit different. We have a couple of weeds that show up in some areas of the winter wheat, bed straw and dog fennel. Those are two tough winter annual weeds and we need a little help in the winter wheat spectrum and we have some information available on what a guy can tank mix that will help him with those weeds. They work fairly effectively and they are fairly low cost.” Tomorrow, Sartini on Huskie and chem fallow. I’m Bob Hoff and that’s the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on the Northwest Ag Information Network. ?
