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Better Pastures Start with NovaGraz™ Herbicide
Productive pastures start with weed control that doesn’t compromise forage quality.
NovaGraz™ herbicide is a groundbreaking pasture weed control solution, that controls many broadleaf weeds but preserves white clover and annual lespedeza. That balance leads to healthier pastures, improved plant diversity and stronger return on investment.
Here are five key benefits of using NovaGraz herbicide:
- Greater forage production and utilization. Broadleaf weeds in pastures typically reduce forage production by 1 to 1.5 pounds for every pound of weeds that grow during the season. Years of testing shows that using NovaGraz allows for broad-spectrum control of more than 20 of the most common broadleaf weeds, including ironweed, cocklebur, wild carrot, buttercup, biennial thistles, ragweed, plantain, woolly croton, poison hemlock and more. By eliminating weedy competition in cool-season grass and white clover pastures, NovaGraz improves both forage yield and utilization.
In fact, research trials have shown a 21% increase in forage yield in pastures treated with NovaGraz compared with untreated ones.1 With more forage, a pasture acre feeds more cattle or the same number of cattle longer.
- Soil fertility benefits. Controlling broadleaf weeds while preserving white clover ensures the preservation of nitrogen-fixing legumes, allowing captured nitrogen to be utilized by the desirable forage ̶ not the weeds. This can raise soil nitrogen annually by up to 150 pounds per acre, representing a value of around $83 per acre per year.1
Nitrogen is essential to photosynthesis and makes up 16% of plant proteins’ weight directly impacting both the health of the pasture and the livestock grazing there. Retaining nitrogen also helps to build healthier, more productive soils year after year. - No soil residual activity. NovaGraz offers a short plant-back interval for pastures and native plantings, allowing a faster return to forage use. Plant-back intervals are 14 days for forage grasses and 30 days for forage legumes - which makes NovaGraz herbicide perfect to use in areas like pastures where extended residual activity is undesirable and costly. Zero soil carryover allows for immediate grazing post-application and continuous forage productivity.
- Healthier cattle herds. NovaGraz allows white clover and annual lespedeza to remain part of the pasture forage, offering key health benefits to livestock. White clover can improve cattle health by offsetting diseases and disorders associated with grazing certain forages. White clover also contains higher levels of magnesium than grasses, which helps reduce risk of grass tetany, a symptom of magnesium deficiency. Legumes are also high in protein, minerals, vitamins and they promote digestibility, boosting cow-calf productivity and weight gain.
- Improvements in cattle performance. Maintaining nutritious legumes with NovaGraz can directly benefit animal productivity through improved body condition, reproductive success, milk production and weaning weights in cattle herds. In fact, the presence of legumes in tall fescue pastures has been shown to increase conception rates by up to 25%. Additionally, maintaining white clover and annual lespedeza in pastures allows producers to reduce fescue toxicosis, which can increase stocker average gain by up to 50%.*
With NovaGraz, you no longer have to sacrifice the benefits of white clover in your pastures in order to control weeds. By preserving plants that improve soil nitrogen, enhance forage quality and support cattle health, NovaGraz gives cattle producers a more reliable way to achieve healthier pastures, more productive livestock and stronger returns on investment.
To dig deeper into the benefits of using NovaGraz and see the numbers for yourself, visit NovaGraz.us/ByTheNumbersSteward.
1 Sleugh, B., Corteva, et al. Can I Keep My Clover? Rinskor Active: A New Herbicide Enabling Selective Broadleaf Weed Control in White Clover-Grass Pastures. Weed Science Society of America-Western Society of Weed Science Joint Meeting, March 2-4, 2020, Maui, HI.
2 Adapted from Southern Forages, 2007, 2015.
*150 lbs. N Per Acre Per Year | Source: Hoveland, et al., Alabama Agric. Exp. Stn. #530
White clover and annual lespedeza exhibit some initial injury (such as lodging and loss of vigor) but recover. NovaGraz™ is not registered for sale or use in all states. Contact your state pesticide regulatory agency to determine if a product is registered for sale or use in your state. Always read and follow label directions.