Patent ID: 9681663
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: A01N

Claim:
1. A composition comprising by weight: (i) from 2% to 90% of a herbicidal sulfonylurea water soluble salt, wherein the sulfonylurea is selected from the group consisting of amidosulfuron, azimsulfuron, bensulfuron-methyl, chlorimuron-ethyl, chlorsulfuron, cinosulfuron, cyclosulfamuron, ethametsulfuron-methyl, ethoxysulfuron, flupyrsulfuron-methyl, flazasulfuron, flucetosulfuron, foramsulfuron, halosulfuron-methyl, imazosulfuron, iodosulfuron-methyl, mesosulfuron-methyl, metsulfuron-methyl, oxasulfuron, primisulfuron-methyl, prosulfuron, pyrazosulfuron-ethyl, rimsulfuron, sulfometuron-methyl, sulfosulfuron, thifensulfuron-methyl, triasulfuron, triflusulfuron-methyl, and tritosulfuron; (ii) from 1% to 50% ethanolamine, wherein the composition having ethanolamine improves spray equipment clean-out and reduces residual sulfonylurea herbicide contamination left in the spray material in comparison to the composition without the ethanolamine; (iii) from 0-95% of one or more additional formulating ingredients; a sum of all the ingredients in the composition totaling 100%; and wherein a weight ratio of the sulfonylurea water soluble salt to the ethanolamine is from 1:90 to 90:1.