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Prefix
The Flexibility to Manage on Both Sides of Planting

Effective when applied before or after planting, Prefix® herbicide offers powerful residual control – even in seasons with challenging conditions – for flexible weed management.

Product Details

Prefix Herbicide

A flexible application window enables Prefix to be applied as a preemergence herbicide or, if overlapping your residuals as part of a two-pass program, an early post-emergence herbicide with residual control of up to five weeks. Its extended residual activity against key grass and broadleaf weeds makes it an effective part of an integrated weed management plan.

Active Ingredients:

S-metolachlor, Sodium Salt of Fomesafen

Resistance Management:

Group 14, 15 Herbicide 

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  • Barnyardgrass
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  • Eclipta
  • Florida pusley
  • Foxtails
  • Galinsoga
  • Goosegrass
  • Hemp Sesbania
  • Horseweed/Marestail
  • Jimsonweed
  • Johnsongrass seedling
  • Junglerice
  • Lambsquarters common
  • Morningglory
  • Nightshade eastern black
  • Nightshade hairy
  • Nutsedge yellow
  • Panicum fall
  • Panicum Texas
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  • Pepperweed Virginia
  • Pigweed
  • Poinsettia wild
  • Prickly sida
  • Purslane common
  • Ragweed common
  • Ragweed giant
  • Red rice
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  • Smartweed Ladysthumb
  • Smartweed Pennsylvania
  • Spotted Spurge/Prostrate Spurge
  • Starbur bristly
  • Sunflower common
  • Teaweed
  • Velvetleaf
  • Waterhemp
  • Witchgrass

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    Product Benefits

    • Fits under any trait platform, giving growers greater flexibility and options in their integrated weed management plans
    • Provides timely weed management using 2 effective sites of action to manage key ALS- and glyphosate-resistant weeds
    • Delivers extended residual activity – up to 5 weeks – against key grass and broadleaf weeds
    • Provides application flexibility with a preplanting program that ensures clean fields when soybeans go into the ground, or an early post-planting program that kills weeds before they can emerge
    • Is the flexible solution to remove the competition of problem grass and broadleaf weeds, to help preserve yields
    • Provides tank-mix capability to enhance all popular soybean herbicide programs, expanding the options for weed resistance management
    • Can be followed by an application of a dicamba herbicide, such as Tavium® Plus VaporGrip® Technology herbicide, or glufosinate; Boundary® 6.5 EC herbicide can be used as a preemergence treatment when applied in a system with an early post-emergence application of Prefix
     

    Performance

    Resistance Management Flexibility Tool

    Flexible Weed Resistance Management from Syngenta

    Prefix is just one option available within the Syngenta soybean herbicide portfolio, the most diverse and effective selection of weed management products available. No matter which soybean seed trait you choose, the Syngenta portfolio includes a herbicide that will fit with your integrated weed management plan.

    Start planning the soybean herbicide program that matches your trait with our new soybean herbicide program planning tool.

    Explore Your Options

    Dicamba Herbicide Tank-Mix Option

    Prefix soybean herbicide is one of several Syngenta herbicide tank-mix options, including with Tavium when applied preemergence. Tank mixing with dicamba provides you with additional weed resistance management benefits. Dicamba should be used as part of a two-pass program to be effective and sustainable.

    See the Difference With Prefix

     

    Testimonials

    Andy Perkins standing in field treated with pre emergent herbicide.

    "We have Palmer pigweed on our farm, and Prefix herbicide has been working really well on our soybeans, where we have sensitive acres and we can’t spray dicamba."

    Timothy Bennet standing in field treated with pre emergent herbicide.

    "Prefix herbicide is a mix of fomesafen and Dual II Magnum® herbicide. The Dual II Magnum gives you a good residual on waterhemp later in the season. The fomesafen gives you a bit of residual, but also helps with the killing of waterhemp."

    Calvin Seitz standing in field treated with soybean herbicide.

    "I highly suggest putting Prefix herbicide with dicamba on soybeans, because it gives you another site of action to knock out some of the hard-to-control broadleaf weeds."

     
     

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    Target Resistant Weeds with a Two-Pass Program
    Cleaner Soybean Fields for Higher Yields
    A Strong Herbicide Portfolio Promotes Weed-Free Fields
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