Winfield Solutions To Distribute BASF Clearfield Canola In US
4 June 2010 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, US -– New varieties of BASF‘s CLEARFIELD Production System canola are to be released in the CROPLAN GENETICS brand through Minnesota-based Winfield Solutions LLC. Winfield currently offers three herbicide-tolerant system choices for Brassica napus canola through the CROPLAN GENETICS brand and now offers the first herbicide-tolerant Brassica juncea canola variety for the US, under the brand XCEED. This trait allows growers to manage difficult weeds in fields planted with CROPLAN GENETICS brand seed with a simple and convenient, broad-spectrum weed control program.
CROPLAN GENETICS seed varieties are available only as certified, genetically-pure seed that offers improved yield potentialand has bred-in (non-GMO)
tolerance to Beyond herbicide.The Brassica juncea CROPLAN GENETICS canola seed offers increased heat and drought tolerance, according to BASF. Beyond herbicide controls such weeds as mustards, foxtails and cleavers.
Growers are required to sign the CLEARFIELD stewardship agreement, which helps them understand how to engage in best practices for using the BASF CLEARFIELD Production System. Stewardship practices include purchasing certified seed each season, strictly adhering to label directions, crop rotations and use of non-ALS inhibitor herbicides for burndown in fallow rotations.
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