Sweetcorn herbicide

[Michael Price]

Is there a herbicide I can use for sweetcorn? Everyone I talk to has a different answer.

 

[randallnMo]

Yes. There are probably 25 different choices you can pick from...........thus the reason you are getting so many "different" answers. I'll recommend Bicep.

 

[IaGary]

Before the corn emerges from the ground just about any herbicide that is used for field corn can be used for sweet corn.

Spraying after the corn has emerged is when it starts to get tricky.

Gary

 

[Anonymous-0]

Been using Bicep for years and it works great.

 

[GordoSD]

Can Treflan be used to control garsses in sweet corn?

 

[Michael Price]

What can you use that doesnt carry over into the next year?

 

[IaGary]

All that were mentioned below will not carry over. There are very few that will carryover. Read The Labels.

I would not use Treflon. It is a grass killer for soybeans. And is not labeled for corn as a pre-emerge. It could possibly be labeled as a POST applied herb for corn or sweet corn. Read the label.

As with any herbicide READ AND FOLLOW THE LABEL INSTRUCTIONS. Don"t rely on someone elses opinion.

Gary

 

[Anonymous-0]

Impact W/WO atrazine works pretty good for grass and broadleaves post emerge and is labeled for sweetcorn, Laudis and Callisto are supposedly chemically similar, not sure if they are labeled for sweetcorn

 

[Rootsy]

Laudis should be labeled for sweet corn.

 

[GordoSD]

Reading some more, I discovered that corn is in the "grasses" family, not a broadleaf.

 

[Tom West Mi]

If you have a restricted use license try Lumax. It is pre-emerge on sweetcorn. I tried it this year and so far it has worked great.