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US 12,660,816 B2Granted
Method for controlling weeds
AssigneeSumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
InventorYoshinao Sada
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method which exerts excellent control effect in controlling weeds. The method for controlling weeds, which comprises a step of performing a spot treatment of clethodim in a cultivation area of soybean, cotton, sugar beet, rapeseed or sunflower.
Claims15
A method for controlling weeds, the method comprising:
- performing a spot treatment with clethodim by a sprayer in a cultivation area of soybean, wherein the weeds is volunteer corn, and wherein the sprayer is not handheld, and an application amount of clethodim is from 20 to 500 g per 10,000 m2 as the application amount inside a spot-treated section,
- wherein a proportion of an area subjected to the spot treatment in the cultivation area of soybean, which is a proportion of the area to which clethodim is sprayed relative to an entire area of a continuous cultivation area of soybean, is from 1% to 99%.
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