Halex GT Herbicide Performs

Let’s face it: Weeds are smart. They adapt quicker than most herbicides can handle, and fields often need more protection than a single pass can provide. Intelligent weeds call for intelligent solutions.

Proven Performance

Mark McClain, a retailer from Brookville, Indiana, can sympathize with battling weeds that are persistent opponents. Growers in his area look to him for answers.

“Our toughest weeds are giant ragweed and lambsquarters,” he says. “Halex GT has multiple modes of action, which is important to fight against weed resistance. It controls the weeds extremely well.”

Since the 2008 growing season, Halex^® GT herbicide from Syngenta has proven its performance in the marketplace by controlling weeds effectively and consistently. With three modes of action, Halex GT controls more than 90 of the most tenacious grasses and weeds. “I think that nine out of 10 growers who try Halex GT continue to use it each year, because of the crop safety it delivers and its wide window of application,” says McClain. “These cornfields are spotless, and the residual control is excellent.”

Season-Long Convenience

Designed to work all season long, Halex GT saves growers time and money by providing a more convenient, higher-yielding alternative to other post-emergence, straight glyphosate corn herbicide programs. Applying a glyphosate-only treatment too early in the season allows new weed flushes to compete with corn crops and the next season’s weed seed banks to increase. Late herbicide applications can result in early-season weed competition, which reduces yields and profit. With flexible application from post-emergence up to 30-inch corn, Halex GT provides the best opportunity for one-pass post-emergence weed control and offers growers an ideal application timing to optimize corn yields.

Eric Hough, a Syngenta Seed Advisor^™ from Carson, Iowa, says Halex GT helps him fight resistance on his farm. “Halex GT stands out as a product for resistance management because of its multiple modes of action,” he says. “That is what growers should look for when creating a resistance management program against different weeds. I’m very happy with Halex GT.”

And so is Nick Schmit, a grower in Coleridge, Nebraska. “We have used it on our corn acres for a few years now,” he says. “With Halex GT, we have clean fields until harvest. When it came onto the market, we jumped on it. We are seeing some increased resistance to waterhemp and marestail, and Halex GT does a good job controlling these weeds.”

For an additional mode of action, growers should add a product containing atrazine, including AAtrex^® 4L or AAtrex Nine-O^® herbicides, to Halex GT, when possible. Growers can apply this combination up to 12-inch corn. If atrazine cannot be used, they can add a dicamba product, such as NorthStar^® herbicide.