The Colorado Wheat Research Foundation funded research 15 years ago to identify a new herbicide tolerance trait in wheat. Executive Director Brad Erker says this trait is resistant to Group I chemistries. The Foundation formed a partnership with Albaugh to provide the chemistry and Limagrain to manage and expand this technology to other classes of wheat. Erker says the trait began with hard red winter wheat and is now expanding into spring wheat. “Herbicide tolerance is a big convenience factor in other crops and that’s why we wanted to develop something in wheat to help us keep up with those other crops,” said Erker. “For 20 years, we were limited to just one herbicide tolerance technology in wheat with Clearfield and that drove the thinking behind our Colorado growers and our researchers at Colorado State to try to develop a second option.” Erker says grower stewardship is key to the long-term performance of CoAXium. CoAXium is unique because it is a farmer-owned trait.
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