Weed Control in Cereal Crop Plantings for the 2025 Season
The spring period is extremely challenging in terms of weed control in cereal crops. On one hand, the well-overwintered weed vegetation, due to the unusually warm winter months of the current season, and its spring forms are competing fiercely with crops for vital resources; on the other hand, changing weather conditions do not always allow for timely spraying.
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In such a situation, it is necessary to prefer herbicides with a wide “application window.” What solutions are advisable to choose are explained by experts from Ukravit.
“Weeds are an unchanging companion of cereals throughout the growing season,” notes Oleksandr Myhlovets, head of the agronomy department at Ukravit. “They overwinter better and, due to their high adaptability to adverse environmental conditions, develop faster and create competition for light, space, moisture, and mineral nutrients. Their harmfulness to cultivated plants is extremely multifaceted: from physical suppression and consumption of resources intended for crops to allelopathy and increased risks of disease and pest damage. Therefore, in the agricultural season 2025, in which conditions for the development of weed vegetation have become more than favorable, their control in successful cereal cultivation technology reaches a new level.”
For successful control of annual and some perennial broadleaf weed species in winter and spring cereal plantings, Oleksandr recommends choosing the herbicide Veyron (flumetsulam, 120 g/l + florasulam, 80 g/l). The active substances of the preparation quickly move within the plants to the growth points and block the enzyme acetolactate synthase – a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of essential amino acids. As a result, cell division, growth of shoots, and root systems of weeds cease, leading to their death.
Veyron is an effective solution for controlling poppy (species), bindweeds, black nightshade, sunflower volunteer species, as well as cleavers – even in the overgrown phase (up to 14 leaves). In changing spring conditions, the wide “application window” of the herbicide is crucial – from the beginning of tillering to the flag leaf stage inclusive.
To enhance effectiveness against white goosefoot, Veyron is recommended to be combined with the herbicide Agent, against pink sow thistle – with Mastak, against field chickweed – with Divo N or Makstar. And to mitigate the negative effects of weather factors in spring, it is advisable to add adjuvants Tandem (0.15%) or Ingress (15-100 ml/100 l of water) to the working solution.