GLYPHOSATE PLUS STAMINA TO KICK START AN EFFECTIVE WEED CONTROL PROGRAMME

Resistant Weeds are a Major Problem

• Black-grass continues to be the Number 1 grassweed problem. Wild-oats, rye-grasses and brome are also important, damaging weeds, along with many broad-leaved weeds that compete for light and water.
• Herbicide resistance is endemic and all farmers need to adopt an effective anti-resistance strategy. This autumn in order to minimise resistance, PSD will be introducing radical and statutory restrictions on the use of certain herbicides in any one crop.
• Resistant black-grass was confirmed in 31 counties, with 83% of samples submitted for testing being resistant to fenoxaprop-p and 41% being target site resistant to ACC-ase herbicides. Already twenty-two cases of ALS resistance have been found to the grass-weed herbicide, Atlantis.
• Resistant rye-grass has been found in 28 counties and resistant wild-oats in 26 counties. Chickweed has been found to be resistant in 11 different counties and poppies in 7 counties, confirming the spread of this problem not just geographically but also across a range of species.

A Long Term and Integrated Strategy is Essential

• A long-term and integrated strategy using a range of planned cultural and chemical methods is essential.
• Activities that will reduce the weed seed burden to a manageable level and minimise the weed population across the whole farm must be employed.
• A successful weed control programme must incorporate as many herbicides with distinct modes of action as possible. The programme must start by creating a stale seedbed, waiting for weeds to germinate and to reach 1-2 leaves and then spraying them off with a total herbicide, glyphosate with Stamina.
• This should be followed up with a careful choice of a pre-emergence residual herbicide and then an early post-emergence herbicide at the one leaf stage of the weed.

Add Muscle to your Glyphosate with Stamina

Stamina is a 100% active and patented alkoxylated amine chemistry, that when added to the tank first, improves the quality of hard water, optimises the availability and performance of glyphosate, resulting in high and rapid performance weed control.

• Stamina provides greater retention and penetrating power, especially important when weeds are suffering from moisture stress and are inactive.
• Stamina is recommended with all major glyphosates.
• Stamina improves the control of both grass-weeds and broad-leaved weeds.

  Weed Control (Set-aside) - Glyphosate + Stamina

  

• Stamina substantially improves speed of uptake and rainfastness (within 30 minutes), important when time is at a premium and heavy showers are forecast.

  Weed Control (Rainfastness) - Glyphosate + Stamina

  

• Stamina improves speed of kill – especially important in persistent dull weather.
• Stamina has an improved safety profile, being tallow-free. It outperforms and replaces traditional, out-dated ethoxylated tallow amines.
• Stamina mixes well and will not gel in cold water.