Whats in That Herbicide Premix?
Though the introduction of novel herbicide active ingredients has slowed during the past several years, a plethora of premix products has proliferated. In the past we have published an article in the Bulletin describing herbicide premix products commercially available for corn and soybean production, and we continue that practice this year. The basic text hasn’t changed much over time, and we hope it remains useful to our readers. Updated tables of corn and soybean premixes always accompany the article; they are detailed in the following text. One limitation of these tables is that a single application rate of each product is presented, with product active ingredients and equivalents calculated based on that rate. If you would like to determine product active ingredients and equivalents for a rate different than the one presented, we provide examples of how to do the calculations. Herbicide premixes can be confusing with respect to component active ingredients, product equivalents, app