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Hormone-Type Herbicides
Kansas growers of sensitive and organic crops are increasingly concerned about drift damage from commonly used herbicides. Many crops, like grapes, cotton, tomatoes, and fruit and nut trees, are especially sensitive to hormone-type herbicides. Growers of organic crops can lose their USDA certification if any type of pesticide, including any insecticide or fungicide, is detected in their crops.
Hormone-type herbicides are used to control weeds, trees and brush on cropland, pastures, lawns and roadside rights-of-way. These herbicides can be prone to drift and to damage crops sensitive to them. The damage can be relatively minor, or it can cause total crop loss. Many factors will influence whether an herbicide moves off target, including temperature and wind, but correctly using the right equipment and making the application at the right time can reduce the likelihood.
The following list will help you determine if what you are using is a hormone-type herbicide. The trade names that appear in this list were chosen because they are commonly found in the marketplace. Similar products are sold under different trade names, so please check the ingredient list to verify whether the product you are using is a hormone-type herbicide.
Hormone-Type Herbicides
| Common Name | Trade Name | Common Uses |
| 2,4-D | 2,4-D, LV-4, LV6, Salvo, Savage, Weedone and other names | Corn, sorghum, cereals, fallow, noncropland, pasture, rangeland, lawn and turf |
| 2,4-DB | Butyrol, Butoxone, Butyrac | Soybean and alfalfa |
| MCPA | MCPA Amine, MCPA Ester, Rhomene and other names | Cereals, lawn and turf |
| MCPB | Thistrol | Controls Canada thistle |
| Mecoprop | MCPP | Lawn and turf |
| dicamba | Banvel, Clarity, Distinct and Vanquish | Lawn and turf |
| clopyralid | Stinger, Reclaim and Transline | Corn, pasture, rangeland and noncropland |
| fluroxypyr | Starane and Vista | Cereals and noncropland |
| picloram | Tordon | Pasture, rangeland and noncropland |
| triclopyr | Garlon and Remedy | Pasture, rangeland and noncropland |
| quinclorac | Paramount | Sorghum and fallow |
| amino pyralide | Milestone, Milestone VM | range, pasture, industrial |
Common Tank Mixes of Hormone-Type Herbicide
| Common Name | Trade Name | Common Uses |
| Triclopyr + 2,4-D | Crossbow and Chaser | Pasture, rangeland, noncropland and turf |
| Picloram + 2,4-D | Grazon P & D | Pasture and rangeland |
| Clopralid + triclopyr | Redeem and Confront | Pasture, rangeland, noncropland and turf |
| 2,4-D + dicamba | Weedmaster | Pasture, rangeland, fallow and noncropland |
| 2,4-D + clopyralid | Curtail | Cereals, pasture, rangeland and noncropland |
| 2,4-D + MCPP + dicamba | Trimec and Mec Amine | Lawn and turf |
| 2,4-D + amino pyralide | ForeFront R&P | range and pasture |
| fluroxypyr + amino pyralide | CleanWave | wheat |