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Crop type: Sorghum
Application type: Preplant or Preemergence

Pounds of active ingredient per acre
S-metolachlor + Mesotrione 1.67 + 0.165
Product quantity per acre
2.0 qt Zemax Selective Herbicide/Coyote
Comments and limitations

Zemax Selective Herbicide may be applied preplant up to 21 days before planting and preemergence to grain sorghum for grass and broadleaf weed control. Sorghum must be treated with a safener (e.g., Concep III) that provides tolerance to S-metolachlor. Zemax Selective Herbicide applied 7 to 21 days before planting will reduce the risk of crop injury. Zemax Selective Herbicide may be applied as a split application with 1 to 1.25 qt/a 7 to 21 days before planting and 0.75 to 1.0 qt/a as a preemergence application not to exceed 2.0 qt/a. If weeds are present at the time of application COC at 1% v/v or NIS at 0.25% v/v + UAN or AMS should be added to enhance burn down activity of the emerged weeds. Do not apply Zemax Selective Herbicide to sorghum grown on sand, sandy loam, or loamy sand soils. Do not apply postemergence to grain sorghum. Do not use on forage sorghum, sweet sorghum, sudangrass, sorghum-sudan hybrids, or dual-purpose sorghum. Cereal crops (wheat, rye, barley, and oats) may be planted 4.5 months following application. Soybeans may be planted the following spring. All corns or Concep treated sorghum may be planted anytime.

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The herbicide performance ratings are taken from: C.R. Thompson, D.E. Peterson, W.H. Fink, P.W. Stahlman, and J.W. Slocombe. 2020. Chemical Weed Control for Field Crops, Pastures, Rangeland, and Noncropland, Kansas State University, January 2016. Contribution no. 16-029-S from the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. Find it online at the bookstore.

The insecticide recommendations are taken from: B.P. McCornack, S. Zukoff, R.J. Whitworth, J.P. Michaud, and H.N. Schwarting. 2019. Insect Management Guides. March 2018. Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service. PDF formats are available here.

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