Effective control boosts corn yield

A new herbicide mixture has been pointed out by studies as an alternative for controlling difficult-to-manage weeds in corn. The solution combines two active ingredients that, according to research, present a synergistic action and contribute to increasing the productivity of the evaluated crops. The work conducted in the Palotina region by researcher Alfredo Albrecht, from UFPR, indicated that terbuthylazine and mesotrione, combined in a ready-made formulation, act effectively on invaders such as goosegrass, bittergrass, blackjack, ragweed, and jute mallow. The evaluations involved summer corn and second crop. In the tests, the control of these plants reached levels between 90% and 100%, while standard treatments with herbicides widely used in the country showed a very low performance in the face of the resistance observed in some species. "These molecules, now associated in a balanced formulation mixture, have synergy and favorable fit in the control of difficult invaders of ...