Clearfield Wheat


The Clearfield® Production System for wheat gives you the best way to grow clean wheat on any field, anytime. With superior weed control and competitive genetics it all adds up to higher yields and profits, year
after year.

 

Clearfield wheat. Nothing gets your fields cleaner.

 

  • Top yielding genetics from 5 available high-performance varieties
  • Control of tough weeds including Cleavers, Chickweed, Hemp-nettle, Wild buckwheat and Kochia (including group 2 resistant Kochia)
  • Safest, most reliable way to remove volunteer barley from
    wheat fields

Crop Protection

Varieties

A great crop starts with great genetics. Clearfield wheat delivers top yielding varieties along with the herbicide tolerant traits you need to grow the cleanest fields possible.

 

Contact your retailer to get more information on these varieties.

 

Viterra®

 

  • VR CDC Abound CL
  • VR CDC Imagine CL
  • VR 5604HR CL
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Richardson Pioneer Ag Business centre

 

Cargill™

Weeds controlled

Legend

C - Control       S - Suppression      * - multiple flushing weeds

Cleaner fields give better yields. Clearfield wheat herbicides provide a wide range of options to provide you with the best choice for your specific weed pressure.

GRASSES

Weeds ControlledALTITUDE FX®ADRENALIN® SC

Barnyard grass

C

C

Green foxtail/Wild millet

C

C

Persian darnel

C

C

Volunteer barley

C

C

Volunteer canary seed

C

C

Volunteer durum wheat

C

 

Volunteer tame oats

C

 

Volunteer wheat

C

 

Volunteer spring wheat

(non-Clearfield wheat only)

C

 

Wheat off types

 

C

Wild oats

C

C

Yellow foxtail

C

C

Spring germinating

Japanese brome

S

S

 

BROADLEAFS

Weeds ControlledALTITUDE FXADRENALIN SC

Annual Sunflower

C

 

Annual Smartweed specieis

 

C

(incl. Lady’s thumb)

Annual Sow thistle

 

C

Bluebur

 

C

Bull Thistle

 

C

Buttercup

 

C

Canada thistle

 

C

Chickweed

C

S

Cleavers

C

S

Cocklebur

C

C

Common burdock

C

C

Common Ragweed

C

 

Cow Cockle

C

C

Curled dock (young)

 

S

Dandelion

 

S

Flixweed

C

C

Field Bindweed

 

C

Goat’s beard

 

C

Green smartweed

S

 

Hoary cress

 

C

Hemp-nettle

C

S

Horse tail

 

S

Kochia

C

C

Lamb’s quarters

C

C

Leafy spurge

 

S

Mustards

C (except dog, tansy)

 

Narrow-leaved hawk’s beard

 

C

Pineapple weed

 

S

Prickly lettuce

C

C

Ragweeds

 

C

Redroot pigweed

C

C

Russian pigweed

 

C

Russian thistle

C

C

Round leaf mallow

C

 

Shepherd's purse

C

C

Sow thistle, perennial

 

C

Stinkweed

C

C

Stork's-bill

S

 

Sweet clover

 

C

Tartery Buckwheat

 

C

Vetch

C

 

Volunteer canola (non-Clearfield)

C

C

Volunteer flax

C

 

Wild buckwheat

C

C

Wild radish

C

C

Wild mustard

 

C

Wild radish

 

C

Wild Sunflower

 

C

Grower experience

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"Clearfield wheat fit perfectly into our rotation. We needed something to put on our barley and this came along – a wheat that you can put on barley stubble and when you harvest it, you have no barley in there. It worked – slick!"

-Stanley Wasilewski, North Battleford, SK


"The Clearfield wheat looks very good – it’s quite uniform. The wild oat control was excellent and the volunteer canola growth was taken care of, as well as the cleavers. Overall, I would recommend the CDC Imagine and the Clearfield system because right now it is 100% doing the job that we expected of it. In the future, we will grow Clearfield wheat and we will recommend it to our area producers."

-Glen and Gary Findlay, Shoal Lake, MB


"I would think this ALTITUDE FX has impressed me the most. I’m astounded actually at the lack of wild oats that escaped. It’s unbelievable."

-John Debona, Taber, AB


"Clearfield wheat performed beyond my expectations, and I was especially impressed with the way the ADRENALIN SC worked. It cleaned the field up. There was no volunteer barley and there were no wild oats, and certainly the other weed control was fantastic. It was some of the cleanest wheat that I had last year."

-Norm Overland, Churchbridge, SK


"The one thing that I would say about Clearfield wheat is it’s a really good fit in anyone’s operation. Clearfield gives you a lot of flexibility; it’s a great combination between the ADRENALIN and the CDC Imagine: very, very strong performers."

-Bruce Murray, Picture Butte, AB


"My overall impressions were that Clearfield wheat was excellent. The ADRENALIN worked very well on the wild oats, chickweed and cleavers. The CDC Imagine provided excellent yield – it ran about 67 bushels per acre and I was very happy with that. The ease of growing Clearfield wheat leaves all of the guesswork out of it."

-Cory Rasmuson, Wetaskiwin, AB


"Well this is the 3rd year I’ve grown it. We are absolutely delighted with it; we’re in an irrigation circle and there’s not a trace of lodging. Not here in the main parts, not in the swales, not in the end gun zone; it just stands up. And also, the herbicide ALTITUDE FX does a phenomenal job particularly with the wild oat control."

-LeRon Torrie, Grassy Lake, AB


"ADRENALIN did a very good job on the weeds and had especially sharp control on the wild oats and Persian darnel. I have had lots of conversations about the wheat because I was so impressed with the yield and the structure of the head, the standability and the strong stem. I have recommended it to lots of neighbours."

-Michael Kirk, Climax, SK


"I would recommend Clearfield wheat to a neighbour. The CDC Imagine stood very well, the straw was easy to put through the combine and the heads were a nice size. The ADRENALIN worked very well. The biggest problem that I had was wild oats and it did just an excellent job of cleaning them up."

-Mark Stephanson, Elfros, SK

Commitment

All growers who grow Clearfield wheat are required to sign a Clearfield Commitment for wheat.

 

Starting with the 2012 growing season, BASF is simplifying the process by moving from an annual agreement to a multi-year Clearfield Commitment for wheat. This means Clearfield wheat growers need only sign the Commitment for wheat once for each variety that they are growing, prior to the 2012 growing season, to enjoy the benefits of the system for years to come.

The Commitment is a license to use Clearfield technology

This helps BASF protect the integrity of the Clearfield Production system, ensuring its future development and sustainability.

 

Maximize AgSolutions® Rewards

Completing and submitting the Commitment helps to make sure growers will receive all savings and rewards available to them.

 

Clearfield wheat growers receive support

Growers who sign their Clearfield Commitment for wheat can rest easy knowing they are eligible for BASF AgSolutions Customer Care support.

 

The process for wheat consists of 3 easy steps:

 

1. Purchase your certified seed or have your farm-saved seed Clearfield-Confirm tested

  • Purchase certified seed from your Viterra®, Richardson Pioneer Ag Business Centre, Cargill® retailer or select SeCan members.
  • If you are using farm-saved seed make sure to have it Clearfield-Confirm® tested by a Viterra retailer (if purchased from Viterra) or Cargill retailer (if purchased from Cargill or a SeCan member).
  • The Clearfield-Confirm test ensures that your farm-saved Clearfield wheat seed meets the required herbicide tolerance.

 

2. Sign a Clearfield Commitment for that variety at your Clearfield wheat retailer.

  • Depending on where you purchased your seed, visit your Viterra retailer, Richardson Pioneer Ag Business Centre or Cargill retailer to complete a Clearfield Commitment for wheat. If you are going to purchase your seed from a  SeCan member, you must first complete your Clearfield Commitment at a Cargill retail location.
  • With the new multi-year Commitment you need only sign the Commitment once for each variety, to grow Clearfield wheat in all subsequent years.

 

3. Apply ALTITUDE FX or ADRENALIN® SC

  • Use these registered Clearfield herbicides for unbeatable weed control, to complete your Clearfield Production System for wheat.

Rewards

Sign the Clearfield® Commitment and AgSolutions® Rewards will help you maximize your savings. The more combinations of seed, seed treatments, herbicides and fungicides you use, the more you can save.

 

Save with AgSolutions Rewards

AgSolutions Rewards lets you:

  • Save up to 5% on registered Clearfield wheat herbicides
  • Earn 2 qualifying reward acres for every Clearfield wheat acre you purchase
  • Save 20% on LANCE® fungicide
  • Save 15% on HEADLINE® fungicide

Seed Treatment and DYVEL offer

Save $1/acre on GEMINI®, CHARTER® RTU, DYVEL® and DYVEL DSP for all cereal acres.

Common questions

1. What is the Clearfield Production System?

Clearfield® is a crop production system combining specific herbicides and seeds from crop varieties that have been traditionally bred for herbicide tolerance and high yields.

 

The available Clearfield herbicides allow growers to customize weed control for pressures specific to their crops while maintaining sustainability in resistance management plans.

2. Are Clearfield wheat varieties Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)?

No. All registered or soon-to-be registered Clearfield wheat varieties were developed using traditional plant breeding methods. Therefore, Clearfield crops are treated as non-GMO, conventional crops and are approved for export worldwide.

3. What are the benefits of the Clearfield Production System for Wheat?

When you grow Clearfield wheat, you get the power of herbicide-tolerant weed control. Combined with the unsurpassed broad-spectrum weed control of herbicides such as
ALTITUDE FX®, there is no better way to grow clean wheat on any field in any rotation.
Clearfield wheat allows you to:

 

  • grow wheat after any crop, including barley
  • choose from 5 certified varieties from Viterra, Richardson Pioneer Ag Business Centre or Cargill
  • control Group 1 resistant grasses
  • manage uncertain or heavy weed pressure situations
  • control tough weeds such as cleavers, chickweed, hemp-nettle, buckwheat and kochia – including Group 2 resistant kochia

4. What is new in the process for growing Clearfield wheat?

It’s easier! Starting with the 2012 growing season, BASF is simplifying the process by moving from an annual agreement to a multi-year Clearfield Commitment for wheat. This means Clearfield wheat growers need only sign the Commitment for wheat once for each variety that they are growing, prior to the 2012 growing season, to enjoy the benefits of the system for years to come.

5. What are the requirements to grow Clearfield varieties?

For seed purchased from Viterra and Cargill the requirements are:

  • Sign a new multi-year Clearfield Commitment with the retail location for both certified and farm-saved seed.  Beginning in 2012, this Commitment need only be signed by the grower once for each variety that they are growing.
  • For farm saved seed, have the harvested seed confirm-tested by the retailer before reseeding to ensure the Clearfield trait remains.
  • Use a registered BASF herbicide on the crop.

 

For seed purchased from a Richardson Ag Business Centre the requirements are:

  • Sign a new multi-year Clearfield Commitment at a Richardson Ag Business Centre.  Beginning in 2012, this Commitment needs to only be signed by the grower once for each variety of Clearfield Wheat that they are growing.
  • Use a registered BASF herbicide on the crop.

6. What can be grown the year after using Clearfield herbicides for wheat?

One year after applying ADRENALIN® SC or ALTITUDE FX®, the following crops can all be
safely seeded:

Canola

Durum wheat

Spring barley

Canary seed**

Field peas

Spring wheat

Clearfield canola

Flax

Tame oats

Clearfield lentils**

Lentils

 

 

 

**Follow-crops only for ADRENALIN SC. BASF continues to do research on rotational crops for the ALTITUDE FX and ADRENALIN SC label. Always read and follow current label recommendations as they pertain to follow-crop recommendations.

7. How do I control volunteer Clearfield wheat?

There are many options available to control volunteer Clearfield wheat, including tillage and herbicides. For herbicides, glyphosate is an important and cost-effective tool that will control volunteer Clearfield wheat. In-crop herbicide applications for pulse and oilseed crops include products like EQUINOX® EC and POAST® ULTRA.

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