Herbicides
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Crop
Stage
Stage of crop for optimum weed control
Basagran and Basagran Forte
Peas (field and processing)
After 3 pairs of leaves (or 3 nodes) are
present
Soon after peas have 3 pairs of leaves form
Spring wheat (excluding durum)
1
No stage restrictions
2 - 4
leaf stage
Soybeans
No stage restriction
Unifoliate - 2 expanded trifoliate
Forage grasses for seed production
(
bromegrass, creeping red fescue,
crested wheatgrass, meadow foxtail,
orchard grass, timothy)
1
1 - 7
leaf stage
2 - 5
leaf stage of seedling forage grasses
Forage legumes (seedling) for seed
production
*
(
alfalfa, alsike clover, red
clover, sainfoin)
1
After the 3rd trifoliate leaf
Forage legumes (established alfalfa for
seed production)
1
Prior to flowering
Forage legumes (established sweet
clover, red clover and sainfoin)
1
7.5 - 25
cm high
After crop is 7.5 cm and before crop canopy
closes
Forage millet and forage sorghum
3 - 6
leaf, prior to canopy closure
*
Dry common beans varieties including but not limited to: white, kidney, black, pinto, great northern, pink, small red, cranberry, otebo) and most snap
common beans including snap beans. Not all dry bean varieties have been tested for tolerance to Basagran. Test a small area of new variety for tolerance
prior to field scale use.
1
Only registered for use with Basagran.
Weeds, Rates and Staging
Annual Weeds
0.71
L per acre
0.91
L per acre
Inches
Maximum
Inches
Maximum
Buttercup
2 - 4
6
Cleavers
1 - 3
whorl stage
Cocklebur
3 - 7
6
7 - 12
10
Common chickweed
1 - 3
weeks after
emergence
Common groundsel
2 - 4
Common ragweed
1 - 2
6
Corn spurry
1 - 4
Flower of an hour
1 - 2
6
2 - 4
10
Giant ragweed
2 - 6
4
Hairy galinsoga
2 - 3
6
Hairy nightshade
0.2 - 0.8
6
Lady’s-thumb
(
smartweed)
1 - 3
6
3 - 8
10
Lamb’s-quarters
0.5 - 1.0
8
Purslane
1 - 2
6
Redroot pigweed
(
suppression only)
0.5 - 1.5
4
Russian thistle
(
suppression only)
1 - 3
4
Shepherd’s-purse
Rosette - 4
6
4 - 10
6
Basagran/Basagran Forte (cont’d)