Race Burndown Herbicide quart (32 oz)

Race Herbicide

Race Herbicide is a fast-acting broadleaf burndown and harvest aid herbicide powered by saflufenacil for use in selected agricultural crops, fallow and postharvest cropland, pasture and rangeland, forage grasses, grass seed production, and noncropland areas. As a Group 14 PPO inhibitor, Race delivers rapid contact activity on tough broadleaf weeds and can also provide rate-dependent residual preemergence broadleaf weed control.

Race is a strong fit for burndown programs where weeds like marestail, kochia, waterhemp, Palmer amaranth, lambsquarters, morningglory, pigweed, ragweed, and velvetleaf need to be controlled before planting or crop emergence. It may also be used as a harvest aid/desiccant in labeled crops including soybeans, cotton, canola, dry edible beans, dry peas, barley, wheat, triticale, chia, and sunflower. Race Herbicide is the generic equivalent of Sharpen Herbicide.

Features & Benefits

✓ Fast-acting Group 14 PPO herbicide for sharp burndown of tough broadleaf weeds

✓ Controls key problem weeds including marestail, kochia, waterhemp, Palmer amaranth, lambsquarters, pigweed, morningglory, ragweed, and velvetleaf

✓ Provides both contact burndown and rate-dependent residual preemergence broadleaf weed control

✓ Useful before planting or before crop emergence in labeled crops such as soybeans, corn, cotton, sorghum, rice, small grains, legumes, forage grasses, and alfalfa

✓ Labeled as a harvest aid/desiccant in selected crops to help dry down crop foliage and improve harvest timing

✓ Tank-mix flexibility with many labeled burndown and residual herbicides for broader weed-control programs

✓ Low-use-rate liquid formulation with 2.82 pounds of saflufenacil per gallon

Labeled Use Sites

Race Herbicide is labeled for use in selected agricultural crops including alfalfa, chickpea, corn, cotton, edible bean, edible pea, field pea, forage grasses, grass grown for seed, lentils, rice, small grains, sorghum, southern pea, soybean, and vegetable soybean. It is also labeled for fallow and postharvest cropland, pasture and rangeland, noncropland areas, and harvest aid/desiccation uses in selected crops including barley, wheat, triticale, chia, dry edible beans, dry peas, canola and other oilseeds, cotton, sunflower, and soybean.

Target Weeds

Race Herbicide provides burndown control or suppression of many broadleaf weeds, including Palmer amaranth, catchweed bedstraw, hairy beggarticks, Florida beggarweed, field bindweed, wild buckwheat, volunteer canola, carpetweed, common chickweed, common cocklebur, volunteer cotton, cowcockle, dandelion, cutleaf eveningprimrose, smallseed falseflax, fiddleneck, redstem filaree, hairy fleabane, flixweed, cutleaf groundcherry, common groundsel, narrowleaf hawksbeard, poison hemlock, henbit, horseweed, marestail, prostrate knotweed, kochia, ladysthumb, common lambsquarters, narrowleaf lambsquarters, prickly lettuce, common mallow, little mallow, Venice mallow, marshelder, morningglory species, black mustard, tumble mustard, wild mustard, burning nettle, black nightshade, cutleaf nightshade, eastern black nightshade, hairy nightshade, parthenium, field pennycress, prostrate pigweed, redroot pigweed, smooth pigweed, puncturevine, common purslane, Florida pusley, common ragweed, giant ragweed, London rocket, hemp sesbania, shepherd’s purse, prickly sida, Pennsylvania smartweed, annual sowthistle, spiny sowthistle, common sunflower, pinnate tansymustard, Texasweed, Canada thistle, Russian thistle, velvetleaf, waterhemp, willowweed, and woolly croton.

Application Notes

Apply Race Herbicide according to the crop-specific directions on the product label. For burndown applications, apply when broadleaf weeds are small and actively growing. Thorough spray coverage is required for best control, especially on dense weed populations or fall-germinated weeds such as marestail.

An adjuvant system is required for optimum burndown activity. The label specifies methylated seed oil plus ammonium sulfate or urea ammonium nitrate for many burndown uses, with crop-specific exceptions. Do not substitute nonionic surfactant for methylated seed oil where the label requires MSO. Race does not control grass weeds, so it must be tank mixed or applied sequentially with a grass herbicide when grass control is needed.

Product Information

Active Ingredient: Saflufenacil 29.74%
HRAC Group: Group 14 Herbicide
Chemical Family: PPO Inhibitor
Formulation: Soluble Concentrate / Liquid
EPA Reg. No.: 83529-265
Signal Word: Caution
Manufacturer: Sharda USA LLC
Generic For: Sharpen Herbicide
Recommended Rotation Partner: A labeled herbicide with a different mode of action. The Race label specifically supports tank mixes or sequential programs with other herbicides for grass control, broader-spectrum burndown, residual control, and resistance management, including glyphosate, glufosinate, paraquat, imazapic-ammonium, and other labeled crop-specific partners.
Recommended Surfactant: Vortex Xtra where methylated seed oil is required and allowed by the crop-specific label directions. Follow the Race label carefully because adjuvant requirements vary by crop and use pattern.