Written by Charlotte Cunningham
ALS herbicides Cintac and Niantic have been granted an approval of an Extension of Authorisation for Minor Use (EAMU) registration for use in rye. Charlotte Cunningham reports. This EAMU approval comes as welcome news as recent withdrawals and changes to labels have narrowed down chemical choices for grassweed control in rye. With products such as Atlantis WG and Pacifica no longer available, there have been limited options for controlling blackgrass, ryegrass, annual and rough stalked meadow grass and brome spp. in rye, says off patent manufacturers, Life Scientific. Niantic is a reverse engineered Atlantis WG (30 g/kg mesosulfuron-methyl + 6 g/kg iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium methyl-sodium) while Cintac is a reverse engineered Pacifica (30 g/kg mesosulfuron-methyl + 10 g/kg iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium.) “These new approvals come at a time when rye is really seeing a resurgence of interest on UK arable farms,” explains Ruth Stanley, Life Scientific’s country manager. “In 1990 there was only about 800ha of rye grown which has almost tripled in area in 2020 to nearly 20,000ha. This area is expected to rise even further as growers look at alternative cropping options, and new markets are found,” she adds. “Much of this increase is based on rye fitting into the second cereal…
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