USA
February 19, 2025
For the 2025 sugar beet growers in five states, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado and Nebraska, will be able to use Goltix 700 SC to control glyphosate-tolerant Palmer amaranth. For the second year in a row, Goltix 700 SC received FIFRA Section 18 Emergency Exemption. The active ingredient is metamitron and is produced by ADAMA which is a leading global crop protection company providing solutions to combat weeds, insects, and diseases.
Sugar beets are a major crop in both western Nebraska and eastern Colorado. Goltix 700 SC provided excellent control of glyphosate-resistant weeds, including Palmer amaranth, which have become a major challenge for sugar beet growers in these states. If left uncontrolled, this weed has the potential to cause up to 70% sugar beet root yield loss.* Based on the performance in 2024, three additional states, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon, applied for emergency exemption as well.
Per Diane Reynolds, Ph.D., Product Strategy Leader for ADAMA US, “We are proud to support growers with a pre-emergence solution to control Palmer amaranth until the 2-leaf stage in sugar beets. We recommend at the later 2-leaf stage that a group 15 herbicides (e.g., metolachlor) be layered over metamitron to continue pre-emergence control of Palmer amaranth. Growers should tank mix Goltix 700 SC with a herbicide that has the active ingredient ethofumesate at application.”
Goltix 700 SC will be available through major distribution partners in Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado and Nebraska as well as Western Sugar Cooperative and Amalgamated Sugar. As this is an emergency exemption, the application of Goltix can only be made between March 30 and June 15, 2025. Any unused product will need to be returned to and in the possession of ADAMA no later than August 31st.
As registrant, ADAMA continues to support this emergency exemption use and has expressed interest in pursuing registration of this use on sugar beets under Section 3 of FIFRA.
*Source: “Herbicide Options for Control of Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds in Sugar Beet” by Nevin Lawrence, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Andrew Kniss, University of Wyoming.
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