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Take Down Tough Weeds with the Enlist™ Weed Control System

As you start planning for 2022, choosing the right trait system is critical to help you enable the best solutions to manage tough, resistant weeds.

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You have a lot of choices to make each year, and thorough weed management plans are at the top of your list. As you battle tough, resistant weeds like waterhemp or Palmer amaranth, choosing the right trait platform is critical to help you enable the best solutions to manage those weeds. Eric Scherder, U.S. crop protection commercial launch leader, Corteva Agriscience, emphasizes the Enlist weed control system is a solution built for you to take down your toughest weed challenges.

“Enlist E3 soybeans and Enlist cotton are tolerant to three postemergence herbicides featuring different sites of action: 2,4-D choline, glyphosate and glufosinate — the active ingredient in Liberty herbicide,” Scherder says. “This allows farmers to use multiple sites of action in one pass.”

If you’re planting Enlist E3® soybeans or PhytoGen Enlist® cotton this year and need to control waterhemp or Palmer amaranth, Scherder recommends a postemergence tank mix of Enlist One®  and Liberty®  herbicides.

A tank mix of Enlist One and Liberty herbicides is the most effective and powerful postemergence treatment to control weeds like Palmer amaranth, waterhemp and kochia,” Scherder says. “In 2020 trials, we saw this tank mix dominate waterhemp and Palmer amaranth — resulting in 98% control of waterhemp1 and 91% control of Palmer amaranth2.”

Scherder stresses three important factors to achieve these results:

  1. Spray weeds when they’re small, 3 to 4 inches.

  2. Don’t cut herbicide rates.

The flexibility of Enlist One herbicide lets you customize a program approach to weed control. With a tank mix of Enlist One and Liberty herbicides, you get two modes of action working together to tackle the same weed without the concern of acidification in the tank. That means you get powerful weed control without impacting the inherent near-zero volatility of 2,4-D choline in Enlist One herbicide.

Liberty herbicide is the preferred glufosinate of the Enlist weed control system to allow farmers more flexibility and weed control options. For more information on how a tank mix of Enlist One and Liberty herbicides can help you kill more weeds, talk with a local Corteva Agriscience representative and view this fact sheet.

1Control of 3- to 4-inch waterhemp in 2020 Corteva Agriscience trials with Enlist One® herbicide at 32 fluid ounces, Liberty® herbicide at 32 fl. oz. and AMS at 2.5 v/v.

2Control of 3- to 4-inch Palmer amaranth in 2020 Corteva Agriscience trials with Enlist One® herbicide at 32 fluid ounces, Liberty® herbicide at 32 fl. oz., glyphosate DMA at 29 fl. oz. and AMS at 2.5 v/v.

™ ® Enlist, Enlist Duo, Enlist E3 and Enlist One are trademarks of Corteva Agriscience and its affiliated companies. ® Liberty is a registered trademark of BASF. The transgenic soybean event in Enlist E3® soybeans is jointly developed and owned by Corteva Agriscience and MS Technologies LLC. Enlist Duo® and Enlist One® herbicides are not registered for sale or use in all states or counties. Contact your state pesticide regulatory agency to determine if a product is registered for sale or use in your area. Enlist Duo and Enlist One herbicides are the only 2,4-D products authorized for use with Enlist™ crops. Consult Enlist herbicide labels for weed species controlled. Always read and follow label directions.

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