Key Points
- These trials illustrate the importance of sequential pre- and post-emergence herbicides for ripgut brome control in cereal crops.
- Combinations of Gardoprim & Glean used in sequence gave the best compromise of effective control of ripgut brome, while maintaining crop yield.
- Sencor or Topogard used as tank-mix components within herbicide sequences tend to be hard on the crop sometimes resulting in yield loss, but do a very good job of controlling ripgut brome.These products may be best used in problem patches or the outside rounds of the paddockwhere brome is creeping in.
- The brome control herbicides evaluated generally resulted in good broadleaf weed control especially with the addition of Glean.
- Unregistered herbicides were used in these trials in an effort to find brome control options.