Innovative Weed Management Solutions
Weeds reduce the yield and quality of valuable commercial crops, ornamentals, forestry, and turf grass. Weeds also damage crops and other landscapes in a secondary way, serving as hosts for a variety of insects and fungi. In industrial settings, weeds interfere with the safety and management of utilities, highways, railways, runways and waterways.
BASF has a long and distinguished track record of providing growers, foresters, golf course superintendents and industrial land managers with innovative weed control solutions. Launched in 1949, our pioneering U46 was the first selective herbicides mainly used in cereals. Other herbicide innovations, like Basagran®, followed in the mid-1970s. Used with Poast®, it made no-till farming (planting crops with minimal soil disturbance) possible for the first time. Today, award-winning Sharpen® herbicide, powered by Kixor® technology, leads the way in no-till fields featuring a unique chemistry that provides foliar and soil activity on today’s toughest weeds.
