Each season, more farmers are discovering the effective, flexible weed control that comes with making the switch to the Enlist® weed control system. Two of these farmers share how they’ve conquered their toughest weeds with the help of Enlist One® herbicide.
Marestail & Waterhemp Control in Illinois
In Macon, Illinois, Paul Butler grows corn and soybeans. He also manages an apple orchard and beehives. For years, Butler used a dicamba-based system to try to keep his acres clean, but a couple of seasons ago, he realized his weed control wasn’t cutting it.
“I think the a-ha moment for me was out there chopping weeds to clean up my buffer strips and it was 100 degrees,” he says. “That was awful. I knew I needed a change.”
So, Butler began looking for a better way to tackle the herbicide-resistant waterhemp and marestail that were crowding his crops. He noticed his neighbor was using the Enlist® system — and getting better weed control results with less time spent on sprayer cleanout. Butler took a shot on the Enlist system.
“We were thrilled with not having to worry about damaging my neighbors’ beans,” he says. “Drift really concerns me. With the Enlist system, that has been much less of a worry.”
With herbicide-resistant weeds ever-evolving, Butler says he appreciates the efficacy, as well as the tank-mix flexibility, Enlist One herbicide provides. He says Enlist One herbicide lets him add more modes of action to the tank.
“I can see the industry’s changed. When I started farming in 2003, lots of farmers relied on only one or two modes of action to do everything. It’s got a lot more complex,” he says. “Resistance is in our industry now. Everyone’s trying to do a better job managing it.”
Marestail- and waterhemp-free fields and no cutoff dates or drift concerns were certainly a win for Butler, and the yield he saw was the icing on the cake.
“The last two years, we’ve had the best yields we’ve ever had,” Butler says. “I was so happy with that first year that we planted 100% Enlist the second year.”
Kochia Control in South Dakota
During summer, Menno, South Dakota, farmer Austin Handel needs to balance taking care of both his cattle and his crops. His cattle take priority, so Handel decided to switch from dicamba-tolerant soybeans to Enlist E3® soybeans a couple of seasons ago.
“Sometimes you got other stuff you need to be doing before the end of June, and if you use the dicamba system, it’s hard to get spraying done on time when the cattle need my attention,” Handel says. “With the Enlist system, I can shut the sprayer down for a day or two to go work cows.”
Beyond dicamba cutoff dates, Handel experienced drift issues after following the dicamba label. He then knew he had to make a change.
“What ended my use with dicamba was when it damaged my wife’s garden pretty bad,” Handel says. “It was over 100 yards away from the field, and we really shouldn’t be using technology that can cause damage that far away.”
Additionally, Handel needed the efficacy and tank-mix flexibility of Enlist One herbicide to control herbicide-resistant kochia. When he switched to the Enlist system, he had not only more time to spray but also more modes of action in the tank with Enlist One and Liberty® herbicides.
“Any field where we applied Enlist One herbicide plus Liberty herbicide, it stayed clean,” Handel says. “Versus with dicamba, you’re basically done managing your weeds by the end of June, and Liberty alone won’t control it.”
Handel found weed control success on his heavy kochia acres with this tank mix.
“We had carpets of kochia I would call it, and when we came back with the Enlist [One herbicide] plus Liberty, it knocked them out — and that was the end of them,” Handel says.
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Enlist E3 soybeans and Enlist® corn are tolerant to glyphosate, glufosinate and 2,4-D choline, an active ingredient in both Enlist One and Enlist Duo herbicides. Enlist corn offers an additional tolerance to FOP herbicides. It’s important to remember: Enlist One and Enlist Duo are the only 2,4-D products that can be used on crops with the Enlist® trait.
Read more farmers’ stories and see how the Enlist weed control system can bring you more effective, flexible and neighbor-friendly weed control by visiting Enlist.com.
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