BARLEY GROWERS now have a further option for controlling broadleaved weeds and annual meadow grass, following approval for a new product from Bayer CropScience.

Hussar (iodosulfuron-methyl) will control speedwell up to 2-4 leaves and annual meadow grass to the early tillering stage, the firm said. It also offers control of chickweed, mayweed and volunteer oilseed rape.

“This will be one of the few choices available for control of annual meadow grass which can prove particularly difficult to control in spring barley,” said the firm’s product manager, Tim Holt.

Meanwhile, cereal seed treatment combination fuberidazole + triadimenol + imidacloprid will also be sold by Makhteshim-Agan from 2007.

This comes after the firm entered a multi-year, co-distribution supply agreement with Bayer CropScience for the insecticide imidacloprid.

The product, currently sold as Baytan Secur by Bayer, controls both early season establishment and foliar diseases, and protects against BYDV, wireworm and slug damage.

“It gives farmers another option, and gives us the full cereal seed treatment market to go at,” said MAI’s managing director Rob Williams.