Key Messages

• Luximax® (Group 30) will reduce grass weed pressure effectively and safely as other pre-emergents on the market. It reduces resistance pressure on other chemicals and has no resistance to its chemistry.
• Voraxor® (Group 14) is an efficient and comprehensive broadleaf weed control and provides residual suppression of annual ryegrass.
• Frequency® (Group 27) gives barley and wheat (including durum) growers a new tool to manage post-emergent broadleaf weed control. It has good compatibility to tank mix partners, and favourable plant backs compared to other Group 27 herbicides.

Background

Annual ryegrass cost grain growers across Australia $90 million a year and is considered one of the most costly and serious weeds within a cropping system. Managing and controlling annual ryegrass populations within cereal crops continues to be an issue for growers across Western Australia. With documented resistance in ryegrass reported in Group B, D, J K and M a new herbicide, Luximax, produced by BASF, claims promising results in tackling problematic ryegrass paddocks. Luximax is pre-emergent ryegrass control that has a novel mode of action (Group 30, formally Group T) that can extend herbicide rotations.

Summary

Facey Group and BASF are working together to demonstrate the effectiveness of Luximax® in conjunction with other pre-emergent broadleaf controls in wheat. This demonstration will also compare the effectiveness of Frequency® and Velocity® as a post-emergent herbicide in wheat. The study aims to analyse wheat crop growth and yield response using collected seasonal data. Specifically, it will identify the effects of Luximax towards weeds after, compare to other treatments by assessing weed counts in each treatment.

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Acknowledgements

Facey Group would like to thank BASF for their support and donation of products for this project.

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