Corteva Agriscience announces Resicore XL

The ag landscape is 1 that’s dynamic and ever-switching. Not only are growers contending with volatile weather styles narrowing the window for planting, fertilizing and spraying, but also a increasing assortment of weeds acquiring resistance to different chemistries.

“Because of that, farmers are inquiring additional of their corn herbicide than at any time in advance of. In other words and phrases, farmers are inquiring us to deliver new answers that match the way they farm to optimize their produce likely,” states Brandon Walter, Corteva Agriscience U.S. product or service manager for corn herbicides.

Back in 2016, Dow AgroSciences (now a portion of Corteva) unveiled Resicore — a premix corn herbicide with 3 modes of motion (acetochlor, mesotrione and clopyralid) that controls far more than 75 broadleaf weeds and grasses, and presents up to eight months of residual activity.

A short while ago, Corteva Agriscience introduced the newest addition to its corn herbicide portfolio: Resicore XL. Corteva hopes to deliver Resicore XL to the market place in 2022.

“Resicore XL is a premix corn herbicide that can be utilized preplant, preemergence and postemergence on corn, and give farmers the sort of overall flexibility to suit about any agronomic application throughout the United States,” Walter claims.

Walter clarifies Resicore XL is created on the weed handle farmers be expecting from Resicore, with the exact a few modes of motion: acetochlor, mesotrione and clopyralid.

“These a few successful modes of motion will give farmers up to 8 weeks of residual exercise and regulate additional than 75 broadleaf weeds and grasses, such as some of the most troublesome weeds right now in the sector, like Palmer amaranth, waterhemp, marestail and large ragweed,” he says. ” As validated by college exploration, both acetochlor and clopyralid provide farmers a bigger amount of management on each modest- and significant-seeded broadleaf weeds.”

Broader application window

In addition to the weed manage growers have appear to anticipate from Resicore, Resicore XL also delivers a wider application window — it can be used preplant, preemergence and postemergence on corn, and can be used on corn greater than 11 inches tall.

“By having a broader software window with Resicore XL, this will give farmers that overall flexibility to transfer throughout the year and navigate through those complicated weather conditions situations we experience in a provided calendar year,” Walter states. “Together with that, because of the overall flexibility that Resicore XL will carry, this merchandise will match a extensive wide variety of different agronomic applications and also give farmers the customizability to adjust their software fees dependent on what their unique one of a kind needs are inside of their weed administration software.”

The acetochlor in Resicore XL is encapsulated, offering enhanced crop security on postemergence corn devoid of sacrificing solid residual command.

And finally, Walter notes Resicore XL also offers increased tank mix compatibility — including with micronutrients and other products, like UAN and ammonium thiosulfate (ATS).

“We know that increased handling properties and tank mix compatibility are important to farmers, and Resicore XL will provide specifically that,” he says. “Simply because of the overall flexibility that Resicore XL will bring with tankmix compatibility, this products will also be ready to be applied with other suitable items, these kinds of as atrazine, glyphosate and lots of other corn herbicides within the market place these days, to aid farmers customize and increase their weed management systems.”

Corteva anticipates EPA registration and commercial availability of Resicore XL in 2022.

“This item will give farmers a impressive, flexible, new weed-regulate answer to help farmers’ exclusive needs these days,” Walter states. “Resicore XL herbicide will establish on the success and the confirmed effective weed command that farmers have come to expect from Resicore, with critical enhancements, this kind of as broader software window, amplified crop protection and increased tankmix compatibility.”