Corteva announces arrival of new Broadway^® Ultra herbicide for spring 2025 in the UK and Ireland

Wheat and triticale growers in the UK and Ireland will have a new herbicide at their disposal next spring to tackle a wide range of broad-leaved and grass weeds.

Broadway Ultra builds on the success of Broadway^® Star which has been a mainstay of early-season weed control for 14 years.

Corteva Agriscience has now combined pyroxsulam and mesosulfuron-methyl in the new Broadway Ultra formulation, offering arable farmers the ability to control an extensive spectrum of weeds in a single pass.

″Broadway Star has a well-earned reputation as reliable, proven chemistry but with our new Broadway Ultra product the addition of mesosulfuron-methyl brings meadow grass control into farmers’ hands too,″ said Alister McRobbie, Cereal Herbicides Category Manager.

″We see this as a significant evolution. We now have two of the most effective post-emergence active ingredients in a single formulation and this should be something of real value to growers at the start of spring herbicide campaigns.″

Corteva expects growers with traditional rotations and on lighter land where meadow grass and broad-leaved weeds are the key issue to benefit the most from this new innovation.

Broadway Ultra’s label weeds also include brome, ryegrass, tame oats, wild oats and loose silky bent as well as difficult broad-leaved weeds such as cleavers, speedwells, mayweed, charlock, bur chervil and volunteer oilseed rape.

Trials conducted by Corteva demonstrate the same level of control of rygrass, meadow brome and annual meadow brome as mesosulfuron- and iodosulfuron-containing herbicides.

Alister added that the same ″act early″ principles around application timing should be followed.

″Getting on top of key problem weeds early is as important as it ever was, and the challenging autumns we have had in recent years often shifts the pressure for weed control to the spring,″ he said.

″Broadway Ultra can be applied from 1 January right the way through to the middle of May, but can not be used in the autumn. It can be safely tank mixed with – or followed by – Zypar^® and has a broad range of ALS joint applications on the label, including combinations with Corteva ALS herbicides and those of other manufacturers.″

The wettable granule should be applied with an adjuvant at a rate of 100g per hectare and comes in a 500g pack.

A 5m reducible buffer zone applies.

Alister said: ″We are really pleased to be able to bring this product to the market in the spring and will have good availability of the product for growers who want to experience the new formulation on their farms.″