Kyro: Corteva’s Newest Corn Herbicide
Announced for use starting in 2023, Corteva announces its latest postemergence corn herbicide, Kyro.
Kyro is a novel formulation–the first of its kind to market– combining the active ingredients acetochlor, topramezone and clopyralid into one premix. Corteva says Kyro provides powerful broad-spectrum control of more than 65 broadleaf and grass weeds.
“We are thrilled to add another innovative solution to our portfolio of powerful, flexible corn herbicides,” said Kelly White, U.S. product manager, corn herbicides, Corteva Agriscience. “Kyro herbicide is a unique offering for the market that will help control troublesome weeds, including glyphosate- and/or ALS-resistant weeds. By using Kyro herbicide, corn farmers can help keep their fields clean late into the season for optimum yield potential — and prevent and mitigate weed resistance.”
Designed as part of a two-pass program in traited or conventional corn, Kyro’s application timing is on up to 24-inch corn.
“At Corteva Agriscience, it’s our mission to continually work to provide our customers with the solutions they need to overcome the challenges they face in the field. We are committed to offering farmers a full pipeline of innovative products. That’s why we decided to launch two game-changing herbicides in one year,” White said. “This announcement for Kyro herbicide comes just a few months after we received U.S. EPA registration of Resicore XL herbicide. These two solutions can work powerfully together in a two-pass program with Resicore XL herbicide applied preemergence and Kyro herbicide applied post to help ensure clean cornfields through crop canopy for maximum yield potential.”
Corteva highlights these four key benefits of Kyro herbicide:
- Powerful postemergence weed control from the combination of three effective modes of action for control of more than 65 of the most difficult, resistant weed species and can provide extended residual control at higher use rates. Notably, Kyro herbicide provides excellent control of waterhemp, Palmer amaranth, giant ragweed, marestail, barnyard grass, fall panicum and woolly cupgrass.
- Excellent crop safety provided by a formulation with an encapsulated acetochlor. Less crop response helps keep corn plants healthy until harvest for better yield potential.
- Application flexibility with application on corn up to 24” tall to fit a variety of management programs. It also can be used on traited and nontraited corn products, including seed and popcorn.
- Tank-mix compatibility including a wide array of tank-mix partners, including atrazine, glyphosate, fungicides, insecticides and micronutrients.
