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BASF and Monsanto offer dicamba application apps
BASF and Monsanto have developed mobile apps to help growers when applying their dicamba herbicides this growing season. Logan Grier, technical product manager for BASF, tells Brownfield their free app gives growers their specific weather conditions for spraying Engenia herbicide,“Wind speed and direction. It also includes (temperature) inversion potential, precipitation probability for the next 24 hours, and, the time of sunrise and sunset, among other things. And it combines all of those things into a conditions index.”
Scott Partridge, with Monsanto, says their free app already had more than 9-thousand downloads by the first week of April,“So growers will know on their farm, on their specific field, what the forecast is for weather conditions so they’ll know whether the environment will be appropriate to make and on-label application.” Partridge says Monsanto has trained 30-thousand growers on proper application of Xtendimax, as required by the EPA, with online training still available.
Grier says BASF has trained more than 25-thousand growers and their website has both federal and state-specific requirements for Engenia application.
Interview with Logan Grier, BASF:
Interview with Scott Partridge, Monsanto:
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