From the Field – Agronomy Notes: Vol. 2, Num. 4

— Written By Matt Inman
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March 8th, 2017

With the continuance of abnormally warm weather, winter annual weeds are out in full force. It is also possible that summer annual or biennials might appear earlier than normal this season. For those fields that have been bedded already, hopefully a preplant-incorporated (PPI) herbicide was applied. There is still a lot of time between now and when plants get in the field, so some protection is helpful to prevent weed growth in freshly tilled soil.

Once transplanting comes, we certainly encourage a pretransplant (PRE-T) herbicide application if a PPI material was not used close to planting time. There are a few options; however, we continue to recommend a tank-mix of Spartan 4F and Command 3ME. With this particular combination, we suggest having beds made and the tops knocked off prior to application. This prevents soil movement as well as the potential for creating “hotspots” in the bed that may injure plants. If for some reason a considerable amount of time has passed between bed formation and transplanting and weeds are visible, an application of Spartan Charge may be useful. This would be used in the same manner, just taking the place of Spartan 4F and also offering some contact control of weeds.

It’s not anything new, but it is important to understand the difference in Spartan 4F and Spartan Charge. Spartan 4F active ingredient (ai) is sulfentrazone and contains 4lbs of this ai. Spartan Charge is a premix of sulfentrazone and carfentrazone (the ai in Aim) which contains 3.15 lbs of sulfentrazone. Sulfentrazone (Spartan 4F) is the ai that provides residual control. The addition of carfentrazone does nothing with respect to residual activity.

However, depending on the difference in price between the two products, a grower may find that it is still cheaper to use an increased rate of Spartan Charge to match that of Spartan 4F. Below is a table from the production guide, showing the rate conversion between Spartan 4F and Spartan Charge.

Conversion table for rate of Spartan 4F and Spartan Charge

We will come back to this issue later in the season, but want to stress the importance of timely cultivations to weed control (among other things) and hand weeding. Physically removing weeds from the field is the single most important action in reducing the soil seedbank; therefore helping reduce the potential for herbicide resistance. With the labor force already in the fields, this should come at very little cost, if any at all in the long term. North Carolina has been dealing with herbicide resistant weeds like Palmer amaranth and common ragweed for more than a decade now. It is now speculated that some species are now resistant to PPO-inhibiting herbicides (Spartan and Aim). This further drives the point that hand weeding (prior to seed maturity) is more critical than ever. The selection of herbicides are extremely limited and the loss of this mode of action would be devastating to tobacco production.

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Matt Inman, N.C. Cooperative ExtensionMatt InmanResearch Assistant Call Matt Email Matt Crop & Soil Sciences
NC State Extension, NC State University
Updated on Mar 13, 2017
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