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New Phantom™ herbicide has the same active as Pursuit®
Calgary, AB (March 1, 2011) – Makhteshim Agan of North America, Inc. (MANA), announces the registration of Phantom herbicide for control of tough weeds in field pea, dry bean, alfalfa and soybean. With the same active ingredient as Pursuit, Phantom provides pulse growers with widespread choice.
“The biggest advantage that Phantom will have over Pursuit is that Phantom will be widely available at a fair price,” explains Dale Kushner, MANA Canada’s Commercial Business Manager at Calgary, Alberta. “Our distribution system reaches a retail network that is spread across the Prairies. Farmers won’t have to drive hundreds of kilometers to get a fair price on Phantom.”
Phantom works on tough-to-control weeds like chickweed, cleavers, green foxtail, hemp-nettle and smartweed. Phantom is applied early, up to the 4 leaf stage for most weeds, to eliminate weed competition early. And with soil activity, Phantom carries on protecting the crop from a second flush of shallow germinating broadleaf weeds that may emerge shortly following application.
Phantom is a Group 2 herbicide that contains the ALS inhibitor imazethapyr as its active ingredient. Group 2 herbicides are well suited to broadleaf crops. Rotating to a Group 2 herbicide in pulses saves Group 1 grassy weed herbicides for cereal crops.
“What growers can expect when buying Phantom is the same as our other products. They will pay a fair price without any gimmicks, rebates or hoops to go through,” explains Kushner. “At the same time, they get brand results in a product that is formulated to work.”
Phantom herbicide will be available in 2011.