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Prairie Grains is the official publication of
the Minnesota
Association of
Wheat Growers,
North Dakota Grain Growers Association,
South Dakota Wheat, Inc., and the Minnesota Barley Growers Association.

Dan Lindgren, Zeneca’s regional product service manager, says Achieve is a dependable wild oat herbicide with no varietal restrictions, excellent crop tolerance, flexible application timing, plenty of tankmix partners, crop rotation flexibility, and low crop injury.

In extensive field trials, Achieve provided better wild oat control than other grass herbicides, Lindgren says. Growers may apply Achieve on wild oats from the one-leaf to the six-leaf stage. The product may be applied on spring or winter wheat, durum or barley between the two-leaf stage and the boot stage.

Tankmix options with Achieve include Bronate, Buctril, MCPA ester, 2,4-D ester, Curtail M and Stinger herbicides. The broad array of choices allows growers tremendous flexibility to control both grasses and broadleaves in a single pass, Lindgren says, and adds that Achieve is rainfast one hour after application.

Achieve is formulated as a water-dispersible dry granule for convenient handling and cleanup. Each case of the product treats 40 acres. Achieve comes packaged with its own adjuvant for simplicity and maximum effectiveness. Handler and environmental safety profiles are excellent for Achieve. The herbicide’s signal word is "Caution" – the least restrictive signal word. Achieve is not a skin or eye irritant and has a low toxicity to birds, mammals and fish. Rotation to cereal grains or leafy vegetables is permitted 30 days after application of Achieve. All other crops may be planted 106 days after application.