Arysta Launches Everest Herbicide in South Africa

canary grass, Phalaris arundinacea

Japan’s Arysta LifeScience Corp. has received registration for its patented, post-emergent herbicide Everest in South Africa.

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The flucarbazone product controls green foxtail, wild oats and certain broadleaf weeds in spring wheat, durum and winter wheat, and is already in use in the United States, Canada, China, and parts of Europe and South America.

Wheat is a key crop in the Cape, which is now the major production area in South Africa with nearly 400,000 hectares planted and yields of more than 4 tons per hectare.

“Everest is an important product that will add a lot of value to our entire business in this region,” said Max de Bollivier, marketing manager for Southern & Eastern Africa, Arysta LifeScience. “The excellent feedback received from the growers showed the strong need for an innovative wild oats control solution such our patented and unique Everest 70 WG.”

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The company said that while South African wheat plantings have dropped sharply over the past 10 years from about 1.3 million hectares to less than 800,000 hectares, production has not declined to the same extent. Improved yields have brought with them the problems of increased weed pressure and annual grasses.

“The continuous use of specific herbicides over a long period of time has induced situations of severe resistance to many of the well-known selective grass herbicides,” Arysta said, adding that Everest provides a new tool for farmers to control wild oats and resistant varieties of canary grass weeds in South Africa.

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