Bayer CropScience Announces Tribute Total Now Registered for Use in California

September 24, 2014

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (September 25, 2014)Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, today announced Tribute® Total is approved for use in California. Tribute Total is a post-emergent herbicide that delivers broad spectrum control in one complete solution to help lawn care professionals and golf course superintendents selectively remove the most troublesome grassy and broadleaf weeds, sedges and kyllingas.

“Turf managers in California face pressure throughout the growing season from difficult-to-control weeds,” said Jeff Michel, herbicides business manager for Bayer’s professional turf and ornamentals business. “Tribute Total helps them save time and money by delivering greater overall weed control without the need to tank mix multiple products.”

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Approved for use in bermudagrass and zoysiagrass, Tribute Total is effective against 55 grassy and broadleaf weeds, including dallisgrass, goosegrass and clumpy rye. This helps superintendents and lawn care professionals better manage their labor input by eliminating the need for multiple products.

About Tribute Total
At a use rate range of 1 - 3.2 oz per acre, each 6 oz container of Tribute Total treats 1.875 – 6 acres. After application, the product is readily absorbed by the foliage and carried to the site of action in the growing points of the susceptible weed. Additionally, with a 60.5% water dispersible granule formulation, Tribute Total requires less storage space, transportation, and less frequent container disposal. For more information on Tribute Total, please visit www.BackedbyBayer.com. Always read and follow label instructions.

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About Bayer CropScience
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, agriculture and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience, the subgroup of Bayer AG responsible for the agricultural business, has annual sales of EUR 8,819 million (2013) and is one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of seeds, crop protection and non-agricultural pest control. The company offers an outstanding range of products including high value seeds, innovative crop protection solutions based on chemical and biological modes of action as well as an extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture. In the area of non-agricultural applications, Bayer CropScience has a broad portfolio of products and services to control pests from home and garden to forestry applications. The company has a global workforce of 22,400 and is represented in more than 120 countries. This and further news is available at: www.press.bayercropscience.com.

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Bayer CropScience Media Hotline, 1-877-879-6162, or

Casey Allen
Manager of External Communications
Bayer CropScience LP
Tel: (919) 549-2607
Email: casey.allen@bayer.com

Ciara Ahern
Global Prairie
Tel: (216) 374-1274
Email: ciara.ahern@global-prairie.com

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©2014 Bayer CropScience LP, 2 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Always read and follow label instructions. Bayer, the Bayer Cross and Tribute are registered trademarks of Bayer. For additional product information call toll-free 1-866-99-BAYER (1-866-992-2937) or visit our website at www.BayerCropScience.us.