The Benzene Ring Is Bonded Directly To The Carbon Of A -c(=o)o- Group (e.g., Benzoic Acids, Etc.) Patents (Class 504/324)
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Patent number: 6906005Abstract: The present invention relates to surfactant systems and in particular herbicidal compositions comprising a water soluble herbicide and/or a salt thereof and a surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system comprises at least two surfactants selected from the group consisting of: i) alkyldiamine tetraalkoxylate surfactants; ii) N-alkyl alkyldiamine trialkoxylate surfactants; and iii) phosphated alcohol alkoxylate surfactants.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2001Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Huntsman Corporation Australia Pty LtdInventors: Andrew Francis Kirby, Ashley Scott Martin, Paul Leslie Griffiths
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Patent number: 6887827Abstract: Combinations of herbicidal aromatic carboxylic acids and safeners The invention relates to a herbicide-safener combination, which comprises: (A) one or more herbicidal auxin type of aromatic carboxylic acids or salts thereof, for example dicamba, chloramben or 2,3,6-trichlorobenzoic acid (2,3,6-TBA), and (B) one or more safeners selected from the group consisting of: (B1) active compounds of the heterocyclic carboxylic acid type and their derivatives, preferably their esters or salts, selected from the group consisting of (B1.1) compounds of the phenylpyrazolin-3-carboxylic acid type, (B1.2) derivatives of the phenylpyrazolecarboxylic acid type, (B1.3) compounds of the triazolecarboxylic acid type, (B1.4) compounds of the 5-benzyl-, 5-phenyl- or 5,5-diphenyl-2-isoxazoline-3-carboxylic acid type, (B1.5) flurazole and (B1.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2003Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Bayer CropScience GmbHInventor: Chad Effertz
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Patent number: 6831038Abstract: The invention pertains to new composition and a method for increasing the solubility of various agricultural compounds in water at a low pH. The compounds included in this patent are typically not soluble at pH ranges less than 7 to produce commercially viable liquid concentrates. This method requires the use of amine-containing surfactants and organic acids to lower the pH of various compounds and also keep them soluble in water.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Helena Holding CompanyInventors: Greg Volgas, Johnnie R. Roberts, Amanda Hayes
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Patent number: 6803345Abstract: Described are herbicide compositions, in particular, herbicide compositions that are prepared from microemulsions containing herbicide compound in acid form, and methods of their preparation and use.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2002Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Platte Chemical Co.Inventors: Anthony E. Herold, Richard A. Beardmore, Scott K. Parrish
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Patent number: 6649566Abstract: The invention provides stable, aqueous formulations comprising high concentrations of salicylic acid and hydrolyzed chitosan, which can be used to prepare diluted, working formulations for enhancing plant defensive responses.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Morse Enterprises Limited, Inc.Inventor: Hamed Doostdar
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Publication number: 20030135879Abstract: The invention provides isolated and at least partially-purified dicamba-degrading enzymes, isolated DNA molecules coding for dicamba-degrading enzymes, DNA constructs coding for dicamba-degrading enzymes, transgenic host cells comprising DNA coding for dicamba-degrading enzymes, and transgenic plants and plant parts comprising one or more cells comprising DNA coding for dicamba-degrading enzymes. Expression of the dicamba-degrading enzymes results in the production of dicamba-degrading organisms, including dicamba-tolerant plants. The invention further provides a method of controlling weeds in a field containing the transgenic dicamba-tolerant plants of the invention and a method of decontaminating a material containing dicamba comprising applying an effective amount of a transgenic microorganism or dicamba-degrading enzyme(s) of the invention to the material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2002Publication date: July 17, 2003Applicant: Board of Regents of University of Nebraska.Inventors: Donald P. Weeks, Xiao-Zhuo Wang, Patricia L. Herman
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Patent number: 6441177Abstract: Tertiary amines of the formula wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, M, p, T and Q are as defined herein, and acid addition salts thereof, have antimycotic and cholesterol-lowering activity.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1999Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.Inventors: Johannes Aebi, Henrietta Dehmlow, Jacques Himber, Synèse Jolidon, Hans Lengsfeld, Olivier Morand, Gérard Schmid, Yu-Hua Ji
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Publication number: 20020107149Abstract: The invention pertains to a method for manufacture and use of a herbicidal formulation of chlorinated carboxylic acid herbicides. A number of different solvents have been found useful in this application. Furthermore, the use of surfactants that act as solvents for the acid herbicides has been discovered. These formulations have shown superior herbicidal activity when compared to standard salt and ester forms.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2001Publication date: August 8, 2002Inventors: Greg Volgas, Johnnie R. Roberts, Flavious Johnson
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Patent number: 6338296Abstract: A release device for slowly releasing vapors of a sprout inhibitor into a small package of potatoes is disclosed. The release device includes a container for holding finely particulate porous media which has absorbed a liquid sprout inhibitor. The container is at least partially porous with respect to sprout inhibitor vapors such that the release device may be utilized to inhibit sprouting of potatoes in small packages during shipments. The release device may further be structured to be coated to control the release rate and may further include being printed upon a porous substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1999Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Inventors: Darol Forsythe, John M. Forsythe
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Patent number: 6121195Abstract: Methods and compositions for enhancing plant growth provide for foliar application of a substance which enhances the accumulation of formyltetrahydropteroyl polyglutamate (C.sub.1 -THF) in a treated plant. Treatment with substances that contribute to the structure of C.sub.1 -THF increase the rate and quantity of carbon fixation by the plant. Thereafter, plant growth is further improved either by exposure of the plant to elevated oxygen, illumination and heat or by foliar input of single carbon fragment sources. Optimal results are obtained by combined treatment with a substance that can serve as a sink for C.sub.1 fragments produced in the leaf.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1998Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Inventors: Arthur M. Nonomura, John N. Nishio, Andrew A. Benson
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Patent number: 6090750Abstract: The invention discloses a novel method for reducing phytotoxicity of Dicamba to crop plants, which comprises co-applying to the crop plants or to the locus thereof a phytotoxicity reducing effective amount of a quinolinyloxy alkanoic acid derivative together with a herbicidally effective amount of Dicamba and salt forms thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1997Date of Patent: July 18, 2000Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Reynold Chollet, Luke L. Bozeman
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Patent number: 6040272Abstract: An aqueous herbicidal composition is provided which is useful for controlling woody plants when applied to bark in basal and dormant stem regions of such plants. The composition is an aqueous solution or dispersion of a water-soluble herbicide such as a salt of glyphosate and a surfactant composition, which comprises one or more polyoxyalkylene trisiloxane surfactant(s) and one or more glycols or glycol ethers. Also provided is a method for controlling woody plants comprising applying to bark in basal or dormant stem regions of such plants an aqueous herbicidal composition of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1998Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: Domingo C. Riego, Kenneth C. Cox, Franklin E. Sexton, James C. Meadows
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Patent number: 5985793Abstract: A novel method is provided wherein plants are first treated with an exogenous chemical (e.g., glyphosate herbicide) and then sequentially treated with a liquid accession agent which provides improved biological (e.g., herbicidal) effectiveness such that plants are controlled with lower rates of the applied exogenous chemical (e.g., glyphosate herbicide). Sequential application has been demonstrated to reduce the antagonism to herbicidal effectiveness that can be exhibited when the accession agent is added to a herbicide in a tank mix or simple coformulation. Typical accession agents employed in the disclosed method include a class of surfactants known as superwetting agents, such as certain organosilicone-based and fluorocarbon-based surfactants.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1997Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: Joseph J. Sandbrink, James M. Warner, Daniel R. Wright, Paul C. C. Feng
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Patent number: 5977024Abstract: The invention provides novel mixtures and methods for significantly lowering the temperature at which chloroacetamides begin to form solid precipitant, without significantly diluting the chloroacetamides.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1997Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: George Luteri, Raad Yacoub, Charles B. Gallagher, Steven Bowe
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Patent number: 5906962Abstract: Stable, concentrated non-aqueous suspensions of water-soluble solids are prepared by using a water soluble active compound comprising water hydratable polysaccharides, biocides, fertilizers and mixtures thereof dispersed in water-miscible organic liquid carriers, preferably lower alkadiols in conjunction with a specific three component surfactant system, i.e., a system comprising a nonionic polymeric viscosity modifier surfactant; an anionic surfactant; and a nonionic surfactant having a bulky hydrophobic substituent group.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1997Date of Patent: May 25, 1999Assignee: Rhodia Inc.Inventors: Norman Robert Pallas, James L. Hazen, Robert Jene Riedemann, Thomas E. Ruch
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Patent number: 5846908Abstract: Methods and compositions for enhancing plant growth provide for foliar application of a substance which enhances the accumulation of formylterahydropteroyl polyglutamate (C.sub.1 -THF) in a treated plant. Treatment with substance that contribute to the structure of (C.sub.1 -THF) increase the rate and quantity of carbon fixation by the plant. Thereafter, plant growth is further improved either by exposure of the plant to elevated oxygen, illumination and heat or by foliar input of single carbon fragment sources. Opitmal results are obtained by combined treatment with a substance that can serve as a sink for C.sub.1 fragments produced in the leaf.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1996Date of Patent: December 8, 1998Inventors: Arthur M. Nonomura, John N. Nishio, Andrew A. Benson
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Patent number: 5670454Abstract: Use of herbicides of the auxin type for controlling broad-leaved weeds and grass weeds in transgenic crop plants which contain an ACC synthase antisense gene, ACC oxidase gene, ACC deaminase gene or combinations thereof is described.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1995Date of Patent: September 23, 1997Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Klaus Grossmann, Helmut Walter
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Patent number: 5643853Abstract: Thiol compounds are employed in conjunction with compounds which modulate self proliferation, both as to plants and mammals. The thiol compounds find effect in enhancing the effectiveness of auxin like compounds, either as herbicides or in enhancing root formation. In addition, thiol compounds act in conjunction with cytotoxic agents in mammals to allow for lower dosages of the cytotoxic agents while retaining the cytotoxic effect against hyperproliferative diseases, such as cancer. The combination finds particular effect against cells dependent upon an isoform of a surface membrane NADH oxidase for proliferation.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1995Date of Patent: July 1, 1997Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventor: D. James Morre
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Patent number: 5635452Abstract: A novel process is described for controlling sprouting in potato tubers by exposure of the tubers to an effective amount of anisic acid, coumaric acid, gallic acid, or mixtures thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1995Date of Patent: June 3, 1997Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Edward C. Lulai, Paul H. Orr, Martin T. Glynn
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Patent number: 5635447Abstract: A herbicide composition which comprises a herbicide and a small but herbicide absorption enhancing effective amount of a water soluble, non-aromatic polyorganic acid or a salt or copolymer thereof such as polyaspartic acid.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1996Date of Patent: June 3, 1997Assignee: Donlar CorporationInventor: J. Larry Sanders
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Patent number: 5629260Abstract: The invention relates to the use of liquid heteric EO/PO, wherein EO is ethylene oxide and PO is propylene oxide, block copolymers, containing at least 30% by weight EO, as a tank mix adjuvant for enhancing the weed killing activity of herbicidal formulations.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1995Date of Patent: May 13, 1997Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Christopher G. Utz, Donald A. Poucher
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Patent number: 5597778Abstract: The addition of DMSO to herbicidal compositions makes it possible to decrease the amount of active herbicidal agent required for desired activity without loss of effectiveness against target plants. The most preferred compositions for application to the plates contain 1-2.5% DMSO. However, in some instances, it may be advisable to use as much as 3% DMSO. The addition of the DMSO also results in increased stability to the composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: January 28, 1997Inventor: Bernard Smale
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Patent number: 5593948Abstract: The present invention provides hygroscopic herbicide formulations in dry, flowable powder forms and associated methods of making the powders and tablets. The most preferred formulation uses an effective amount of a acifluorfen combined with a citrate sequestrant.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1994Date of Patent: January 14, 1997Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Rudolph E. Lisa, Terence K. Kilbride, Jr.
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Patent number: 5462915Abstract: Microcapsules formed from urea-, thiourea- and/or melamine-formaldehyde prepolymers which are particularly useful in formulating agrochemicals.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1994Date of Patent: October 31, 1995Assignee: Sandoz Ltd.Inventors: Ralston Curtis, Rakesh Jain, David C. Creech, William L. Fitch
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Patent number: 5424280Abstract: There are provided aryloxybenzene compounds of formula I ##STR1## Further provided are compositions and methods comprising those compounds for the control of undesirable plant species.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1993Date of Patent: June 13, 1995Assignee: American Cyanamid CompanyInventors: Michael E. Condon, Alvin D. Crews, Jr.
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Patent number: 5416067Abstract: A dry, water-soluble, substituted phenoxy and/or benzoic acid herbicide is prepared by grinding and dry blending the herbicide in acid form with anhydrous trisodium phosphate or tripotassium phosphate which functions as a solid solubilization medium. From about 0.6 mole to about 16.9 moles of the medium is provided for each mole of active herbicidal agent in the initially dry blended mixture. Herbicidal agents are selected from the group consisting of 2,4-D, 2,4-DB, MCPP, MCPA, dichlorprop, dicamba, and chloramben.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1993Date of Patent: May 16, 1995Assignee: PBI - Gordon CorporationInventors: John L. Van Haften, Roger P. Cahoy
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Patent number: 5380350Abstract: The present invention provides methods of making hygroscopic pesticidal salt formulations in the form of dispersible granules.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1992Date of Patent: January 10, 1995Assignee: BASF CorporationInventor: Ken Fersch
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Patent number: 5328889Abstract: A dry, water-soluble, substituted phenoxy and/or benzoic acid herbicide is prepared by grinding and dry blending the herbicide in acid form with anhydrous trisodium phosphate or tripotassium phosphate which functions as a solid solubilization medium. At least about 0.6 mole of the medium is provided for each mole of active herbicidal agent in the initially dry blended mixture.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1992Date of Patent: July 12, 1994Assignee: PBI-Gordon CorporationInventors: John L. Van Haften, Roger P. Cahoy
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Patent number: 5304531Abstract: Compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is hydrogen, halo, trihalomethyl, alkyl, nitro, or cyano; X.sup.1 is hydrogen, halo, or trihalomethyl; X.sup.2 is trihalomethyl or halo; Y is O, S, NH or NR.sup.1 ; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are the same or different radicals selected from hydrogen, alkyl, or mononuclear aralkyl; n is 1 to 5, and Z is carboxy, amino, mono- and dialkyl amino and when Z is carboxy; the agronomically acceptable salts, esters, thioesters and amides thereof, and compositions containing these compounds exhibit herbicidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1984Date of Patent: April 19, 1994Inventor: Wayne O. Johnson
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Patent number: 5302524Abstract: A method of stimulating seedling growth which comprises applying a coal-derived oxidation product to the medium in which the seedling is growing. The product is in the form of a solution or a slurry having a pH in the range of 2 to 12 and has the following elemental and functional group analysis (on an air-dried basis):______________________________________ ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS Element Range (%) ______________________________________ Carbon 30-70 Hydrogen 2-6 Nitrogen 0.1-5 Sulphur 0.1-10 Oxygen 15-45 ______________________________________ FUNCTIONAL GROUP ANALYSIS Functional Group Range (meq/g) ______________________________________ Total acidity 3-13 Carboxylic groups 0.5-12 Phenolic groups 0.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1990Date of Patent: April 12, 1994Assignee: National Energy CouncilInventors: Hendrik A. Van De Venter, Johannes Dekker, Izak J. Cronje
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Patent number: 5266553Abstract: A method of manufacturing a solid, water-soluble herbicidal composition comprising a water-soluble salt of a herbicidal compound is disclosed. The herbicidal compound is a water-insoluble compound that includes a carboxylic acid functionality, such as a phenoxy-substituted carboxylic acid compound or a substituted benzoic acid compound, and is sufficiently pure to form a dry, solid herbicidal salt composition after interaction with a suitable neutralizing base, such as ammonia, an alkylamine, a dialkylamine, a trialkylamine, a hydroxyalkylamine, a dihydroxyalkylamine, an alkaline salt of an alkali metal or a combination thereof. The dry herbicidal salt composition includes at least about 90% by weight of the water-soluble herbicidal salt, and dissolves rapidly and essentially completely in water to form an aqueous herbicidal solution including up to about 75% by weight of the water-soluble herbicidal salt.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1991Date of Patent: November 30, 1993Assignee: Riverdale Chemical CompanyInventors: James K. Champion, Conrad T. Harwell
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Patent number: 5231070Abstract: This invention relates to inhibiting leaching of crop treating chemicals into the ground water, aqua-system and surrounding soil of the treatment site by contacting the plant or plant site with an effective leach inhibiting, plant tolerating amount of a lactam containing polymer selected from the group of a crosslinked or non-crosslinked N-alkenyl lactam homopolymer or copolymer with a C.sub.2 to C.sub.30 comonomer selected from the group of an alkenoic acid; an alkenyl- anhydride, ester, ether, amino ester or amino amide and an alpha mono- or di- olefin, in which the lactam unit of the polymer is represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R is C.sub.3 to C.sub.6 alkylene optionally substituted with C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 alkyl; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently C.sub.2 to C.sub.20 alkyl or hydrogen and n has a value of from 0 or 2.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1992Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Assignee: ISP Investments Inc.Inventors: Kolazi S. Narayanan, Ratan K. Chaudhuri
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Patent number: 5229354Abstract: This invention relates to inhibiting leaching of crop treating chemicals into the ground water, aqua-system and surrounding soil of the treatment site by contacting the plant or plant site with an effective leach inhibiting, plant tolerating amount of a nitrogen-containing copolymer having pendant nitrogeneous groups which contains between about 40 and about 98 wt. % of monomer unit A defined by the formula ##STR1## and 2 to 40 wt. % of comonomer unit B ##STR2## wherein X is hydrogen, a C.sub.1 to C.sub.22 radical of the group alkyl, alkoxy, aryl, alkaryl, aryloxy and alkaryloxy;R.sub.2 is hydrogen or --(CO).sub.y' OR';R, R.sub.1, R.sub.3 and R' are each selected from the group of hydrogen and lower alkyl;R.sub.6 is hydrogen or ##STR3## x, y, y' and z each have a value of 0 or 1; a has a value of from 2 to 4;Z is --O-- or --NH--Y is an optionally quaternized group of ##STR4## and R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are hydrogen or lower alkyl except that at least one of R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 is lower alkyl.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1992Date of Patent: July 20, 1993Assignee: ISP Investments Inc.Inventors: Kolazi S. Narayanan, Ratan K. Chaudhuri
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Patent number: 5229355Abstract: This invention relates to inhibiting leaching of crop treating chemicals into the ground water, aqua-system and surrounding soil of the treatment site by contacting the plant or plant site with an effective leach inhibiting, plant tolerating amount of a copolymer of a maleic acid, the corresponding C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 alkyl ester of said acid or a mixture thereof and a comonomer of an alkyl alpha alkenyl ether; which copolymers have a molecular weight (Mw) of from about 8,000 to about 3,000,000 and can be directly incorporated into a standard agrichemical formulation.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1992Date of Patent: July 20, 1993Assignee: ISP Investments Inc.Inventors: Ratan K. Chaudhuri, Kolazi S. Narayanan
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Patent number: 5221319Abstract: A dry, water-soluble, substituted phenoxy and/or benzoic acid herbicide is prepared by dry blending the herbicide in acid form with a dry solid solubilization medium selected from the group consisting of diammonium phosphate, dipotassium phosphate, and disodium phosphate. At least about 1.15 moles of the medium are provided for each mole of active herbicidal agent in the initially dry blended mixture.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1991Date of Patent: June 22, 1993Assignee: PBI-Gordon CorporationInventors: John L. Van Haften, Roger P. Cahoy