3 New Soybean Herbicides: What You Need to Know

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Between the development of herbicide resistance and yield potential threatened by weeds that are already resistant, your customers need an effective, but flexible, herbicide program to control today’s most challenging weeds. Now, you can recommend three new soybean herbicides — Enversa, Sonic® Boom and Kyber® Pro herbicides — from Corteva Agriscience as options to fit your customers’ programs.

Enversa Herbicide

“Enversa herbicide is a proprietary residual herbicide formulation with encapsulated acetochlor — a Group 15 active ingredient — that drives directly to the soil for excellent weed control throughout the growing season,” says Drake Robards, U.S. product manager, soybean herbicides, Corteva Agriscience. “This is the first soybean — and cotton — herbicide solution in the Corteva Agriscience portfolio to feature encapsulated acetochlor.”

Application Rate: 3 pt./A
Soybean Application Timing: Preplant up to R2

Key Benefits of Enversa:

  • Residual control of 20 broadleaf weeds and grasses, including Palmer amaranth and waterhemp
  • Reliable performance leads to customer confidence in resistance management
    Fits perfectly into a herbicide program approach with other Corteva Agriscience soybean herbicides and is the preferred residual tank-mix partner with Enlist One® herbicide for Enlist E3® soybeans
  • Excellent crop safety leads to higher yield potential
  • Wide application window to help navigate challenging weather conditions

“Enversa herbicide also offers immediate plant-back options to field corn, seed corn, silage corn, popcorn, cotton, soybean and peanuts — with no restrictions if these previously treated crops are lost,” Robards says.

Visit Corteva.us/Enversa or view the technical bulletin for more information.

Sonic® Boom Herbicide

Preventing the establishment of nutrient-robbing weeds requires a dependable, field-tested preemergence herbicide. When that solution provides control of more than 35 of the toughest broadleaf weeds threatening soybeans today, it should become an easy recommendation to your customers. That solution is here: Sonic® Boom herbicide.

“Sonic Boom is a foundational herbicide and a robust tank-mix partner,” Robards says. “It not only enables your customers to achieve early season weed control across a wide range of agronomic programs, but it also delivers efficacy on Palmer amaranth, waterhemp and kochia.”

With two proven active ingredients — metribuzin and sulfentrazone — and long-lasting residual activity, this liquid premix preemergence herbicide can keep soybeans weed-free for maximum yield potential.

Application Rate: 16 to 21 oz./A
Soybean Application Timing: Preplant up to 30 days; and preemergence up to three days after planting, but before soybean seed germinates

Key Benefits of Sonic Boom:

  • Control of more than 35 hard-to-control or resistant broadleaf weeds, with suppression of many problematic grasses common to soybeans
  • Flexibility to fit a wide variety of geographies and agronomic needs
  • Long-lasting residual creates wider application window for postemergence application
  • Foundational preemergence herbicide that naturally fits into a two-pass program — including the Enlist® weed control system — for season-long weed control
  • Liquid premix for easier handling, storage and tank-mixing

Lower the boom on weeds. View and download this fact sheet for more details on Sonic Boom herbicide.

Kyber® Pro Herbicide

With the growing risk of weed resistance, never before in weed control has a herbicide product with multiple modes of action been so important.

With three proven modes of action, and tank mix flexibility, Kyber Pro herbicide will give your customers a comprehensive preemergence weed control solution on more than 50 broadleaf and grass weeds.

“As production agriculture continues to battle ALS- and PPO-resistant weeds like Palmer amaranth and waterhemp, Kyber Pro herbicide will deliver up to six weeks of residual activity — and even more in the right conditions — to prevent weed competition from interfering with young soybeans during their important early growth stage when yield potential is established,” Robards says.

Application Rate: 1 pt./A
Soybean Application Timing: Preplant; and preemergence up to three days after planting, but before soybean seed germinates

Key Benefits of Kyber Pro:

  • Controls tough, ALS- and PPO-resistant weeds like Palmer amaranth, common ragweed and waterhemp
  • Excellent herbicide resistance management tool with three proven modes of action — combining metribuzin, flumioxazin and pyroxasulfone (Group 5, 14 and 15 actives) in a liquid premix
  • Wider postemergence application window from long-lasting residual control
  • Highly compatible with Enlist E3 soybeans and the Enlist weed control system

Start the season off strong with Kyber Pro. View this fact sheet for more information on this novel herbicide from Corteva Agriscience.

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The transgenic soybean event in Enlist E3® soybeans is jointly developed and owned by Corteva Agriscience and M.S. Technologies L.L.C. Following burndown, Enlist Duo® and Enlist One® herbicides with Colex-D® technology are the only herbicides containing 2,4-D that are authorized for preemergence and postemergence use with Enlist® crops. Consult Enlist® herbicide labels for weed species controlled. Enlist Duo and Enlist One herbicides are not registered for use or sale in all states and counties; are not registered in AK, CA, CT, HI, ID, MA, ME, MT, NH, NV, OR, RI, UT, VT, WA and WY; and have additional subcounty restrictions in AL, GA, TN and TX, while existing county restrictions still remain in FL. All users must check “Bulletins Live! Two no earlier than six months before using Enlist One or Enlist Duo. To obtain “Bulletins,” consult epa.gov/espp/, call 1-844-447-3813, or email ESPP@epa.gov. You must use the “Bulletin” valid for the month and state and county in which Enlist One or Enlist Duo are being applied. Contact your state pesticide regulatory agency if you have questions about the registration status of Enlist® herbicides in your area. ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW PESTICIDE LABEL DIRECTIONS. IT IS A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL AND STATE LAW TO USE ANY PESTICIDE PRODUCT OTHER THAN IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS LABELING. ONLY USE FORMULATIONS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY LABELED FOR SUCH USE IN THE STATE OF APPLICATION. USE OF PESTICIDE PRODUCTS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, 2,4-D-CONTAINING PRODUCTS NOT AUTHORIZED FOR USE WITH ENLIST CROPS, MAY RESULT IN OFF-TARGET DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE CROPS/AREAS AND/OR SUSCEPTIBLE PLANTS, IN ADDITION TO CIVIL AND/OR CRIMINAL PENALTIES. Additional product-specific stewardship requirements for Enlist crops, including the Enlist Product Use Guide, can be found at www.traitstewardship.com. Enversa™, Kyber® Pro and Sonic® Boom are not registered for sale or use in all states or counties. Enversa is not available for sale, distribution or use in Nassau and Suffolk counties in the state of New York. Contact your state pesticide regulatory agency to determine if a product is registered for sale or use in your state. Consult the label before purchase or use for full details. Always read and follow label directions.