Velocity is the second in the series of cereal herbicides from Bayer CropScience featuring photo-X herbicide technology.

The active ingredient simultaneously interrupts three crucial life processes within the plant, based on the active ingredient, pyrasulfotole.

Pyrasulfotole cuts off the plant’s energy process, the vitamin process and the protective process.

Bayer CropScience product manager, Phillippa Fleming, said the synergy between pyrasulfotole and other components resulted in a unique action that controls weeds early.

Velocity is registered for use in wheat, barley, triticale and cereal rye from as early as the two-leaf stage.

It is registered for the control of 19 broadleaf weeds, including wild radish, doublegee, volunteer canola, capeweed, indian hedge mustard, wild turnip, deadnettle, lupins, wireweed, fumitory, sowthistle, bindweed, and volunteer pulses.