BASF launches new Honor™ fungicide and Tower® herbicide
BASF Professional Turf & Ornamentals today announced its launch of Honor™ fungicide, a combination of two industry-leading active ingredients, and Tower® herbicide, which features dimethenamid-P, a new active ingredient for the turf market. Both products give golf course superintendents broad-spectrum control to help them optimize applications.

Golf course superintendents can benefit from additional savings up to 8 percent through the BASF Early Order program, on now through Dec. 11, 2009. Click here to download a PDF order form.

Honor fungicide combines boscalid, the active ingredient in Emerald® fungicide, and pyraclostrobin, the active ingredient in Insignia® fungicide. Ideal for greens, tees and fairways, Honor’s two modes of action deliver playability to greens and control of diseases, including patch diseases, anthracnose, dollar spot and leaf spot.

Tower herbicide provides preemergent control of more than 50 small-seeded grassy and broadleaf weeds and sedges including goosegrass and yellow nutsedge. Tower can be applied to cool- and warm-season turfgrass on tees, fairways, roughs and other amenity turfgrass around common areas on the golf course. Tower is also labeled for use on residential and commercial ornamental landscape and grounds maintenance. For added weed control, Tower is an ideal tank-mix partner with Pendulum® AquaCap™ herbicide.

Learn more about this announcement here.

Learn how you could get up to 8 percent in budget-stretching savings on the following products:

• Curalan® EG fungicide
• Emerald® fungicide
• Honorâ„¢ fungicide
• Insignia® fungicide
• Trinity® fungicide
• FreeHand® 1.75G herbicide
• Pendulum® AquaCapâ„¢ herbicide
• Tower® & Pendulum AquaCap herbicide combo

Click here for program details and an order form. The earlier you order the more you save.

Contact your BASF Turf & Ornamentals sales representative here for more information.

Tell Us What You Think about the “Judge Fales: A Club Without Honor� video

Ever had a course interaction with a golfing customer like Caddyshack-inspired Honorable Judge Fales (pictured left)? Click here to watch the humorous 80-second clip.

Defend your turf’s health with Honor™ fungicide
Honor fungicide’s formulation gives superintendents a pre-mix of two active ingredients with two modes of action to keep tough diseases like dollar spot, anthracnose, patch diseases (brown, take-all and summer), leaf spots and many others from overruling your turf.

Click here to read more about Honor fungicide.

Short video highlights importance of Honor at the course
Ever had a ‘Who’s-on-First?’ moment when talking to golf customers? Check out this 80-second video of Caddyshack-inspired Judge Fales trying to follow a superintendent as he shares how new Honor™ fungicide can improve turfgrass quality on greens and fairways on which the “Honor�-able Judge plays. Feel free to share.

BASF formulated Honorâ„¢ fungicide for broad-spectrum disease control
Video character Judge Fales may not understand the importance of controlling the industry’s top diseases with one pre-mix formulation but superintendents do. That’s why BASF scientists formulated broad-spectrum Honor fungicide. It combines boscalid, the active in Emerald® fungicide, and pyraclostrobin, the active in Insignia® fungicide, for two modes of action that control top diseases, including dollar spot, anthracnose, patch diseases (brown, take-all and summer), leaf spots and many others.

Since Insignia fungicide’s introduction, superintendents consistently report that it’s become their go-to strobi for broad-spectrum control. For dollar spot disease, superintendents treat Emerald fungicide as their foundational control product.

With Honor, BASF has made it convenient to get all the benefits from both leading actives in one convenient, powerful pre-mix formulation.

Honor fungicide is available Oct. 1 and will be included in the BASF Turf & Ornamentals Early Order Program.

Click here to download the Honor fungicide brochure.

BASF will now focus on most innovative postemergent herbicide – Drive XLR8
BASF Turf & Ornamentals today announced that, effective immediately, it will no longer sell Drive® 75 DF herbicide to the professional turf & ornamentals market. BASF will now focus on selling the most innovative product in postemergent herbicides, Drive® XLR8.

Launched in 2008, Drive XLR8 herbicide is a true liquid formulation and as such exhibits rainfastness in only 30 minutes. Drive XLR8 also shows improved efficacy over the older Drive75 DF and is easier to handle and mix.

Drive XLR8 is available now through all BASF Turf & Ornamental distribution partners nationwide.

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