Is it going to be an early spring?

Early Signs of Spring in Arkansas? Plan Your Rice Herbicide Strategy Now

March 4th, I was driving to meetings around Northeast Arkansas and I saw tillage implements in every field I passed. That had me wondering if the rumors are true—is 2024 going to be an early spring?

📸: @baianliang via Canva/Featuring a close-up shot of a beautiful rice crop.

Prepping for a Busy Planting Season: Don't Get Caught Off Guard with PRE-Herbicides

While the weather can turn on a dime and delay planting, it is key that growers have a strategy in mind for putting down an effective PRE on their rice acres so when the busy time arrives, there's no question about what your herbicide strategy will be.

Broad-Spectrum Weed Control for Rice: Start Clean, Stay Clean with Sharpen^® Herbicide

BASF offers a wide variety of solutions for success on the rice acre. With a predicted increase in rice acres this year for Arkansas, time will be of the essence as far as preparing fields for planting. Sharpen^® Herbicide PRE at 3-4 fl oz/a + clomazone + glyphosate offers growers broad-spectrum weed control, regardless of what kind of rice variety or hybrid is being planted.

📸: BASF internal photograph/Featuring untreated (Left) and rice treated with Sharpen^® Herbicide (Right) in Memphis, TN, 2018. 

Conquer Tough Rice Weeds with Sharpen^® Herbicide PRE: Reduce Herbicide Resistance Risk

Start off 2024 with clean rice acres and stay clean to ensure you are maximizing your yield potential. BASF offers rice herbicide systems that can effectively control the toughest weeds in rice, like barnyardgrass, broadleaf signalgrass, red rice, and hemp sesbania as well as providing multiple herbicide sites of action to potentially reduce the occurrence of herbicide resistance.

📸: BASF internal photograph/Featuring BASF products for all Rice Varieties and Hybrids, Clearfield^® Production System for rice and the Provisia^® Rice System.

Reach out to your local BASF representative today to discuss how you can implement Sharpen® herbicide into your rice acres PRE (3-4 fl oz/a) for effective knockdown and residual.

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