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This Blog section is for news about Rainbow & Brown products and their application but especially new products.


05 Jul NEW PRODUCTS - BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT
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Most of you would be aware of these top Dye Spray Markers that have been market leaders in spray marker. Now Rainbow & Brown are pleased to be able to offer these at competitive prices.We always struggled to get a suitable spray marker that we could safely deliver to you on the farm. The rural posties, quite rightly, didn’t want to be carrying flam..
04 Jul EXTENDING THE WETTING AGENT/ PENETRANT SPECIAL PROMOTION
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Due to a number of requests from customers we have extended the special organosilicone wetting agent prices we had running for Fieldays until 4:30pm on Friday 12th July 2019 Check out the prices and info below and http://www.rainbowbrown.co.nz/penetrants Rainbow & Brown have a great range of wetting agents and penetrants to aid the performance of..
02 Mar SEAWEED EXTRACT POWDER
Shayne 0 7182
Seaweed  Extract Powder This new product was a low-key launch in October 2016. We didn’t make much of a song-and-dance about it, but we knew there were already quite a few fans among our customers for seaweed extract based soil conditioners. And so it has proven:it’s been selling well and getting excellent reviews from users.Seaweed  extract is sui..
02 Mar MSF600 AND GORSE CONTROL
Shayne 0 7674
MSF600 (metsulfuron-methyl) is NZ’s favourite and most proven chemical for controlling gorse, especially heaps of big gorse.It has a couple of quirks that are the key to understanding why it works like it does.MSF600 suppresses production in the plant of an enzyme called acetolactate synthase (ALS). That enzyme is required to support new growth, bo..
02 Mar GLYPHOSATE PRICES ON THE MOVE AGAIN
Shayne 0 6874
This is just a heads-up. Glyphosate prices will rise, probably fairly sharply, during this calendar year. Not just our brands; everybody’s brands. And it’ll likely be soon.Almost all the world’s glyphosate acid (that’s the technical concentrate used to make usable various forms of glyphosate herbicides) is made in China. And the producers there are..
12 Nov GRASSMATE APPLICATION RATES
Shayne 0 23019
In answer to a question about Grassmate from a customer about control of broadleaf weeds in lawns, Our product GrassMate is an excellent product for removing all broadleaf species, including clovers etc, from a lawn without damage to the grass. For your situation a rate equivalent to 2L/Ha is about right.  So for a 1.5 acre lawn, that's a total o..
06 Oct BROADLEAF PLANTAIN CONTROL
Shayne 0 11682
In response to a question from a farm adviser about a customer who'd sprayed for plantain control, and now wanted to drill new seed.Broad leaf plantain is normally taken out successfully at the normal rates at which glyphosate is used to spray out paddocks for cropping or for new pasture.That is between 3L/Ha and 5L/Ha when using G360 liquid, or th..
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17 Aug How to Control Buttercup in Pasture NZ (Without Losing Your Clover)
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05 Aug How to Kill Californian Thistle in Pasture NZ
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Californian thistle is hard to kill because the plant you see is only the top of a deep, spreading root system that keeps throwing up fresh shoots from root buds. Knocking back the top growth won't get on top of it. The reliable approach is a herbicide that moves through the whole plant down to the root buds, applied while the thistle is actively..
05 Aug Grass stopped growing? It's just idling, not done
Casey 0 292
Grass growth stalls once soil temperatures drop below about 10 degrees, which is the winter feed gap every farmer knows. Gibberellic acid, a natural plant hormone sold as Gibb-Gro and Gibber900, can get pasture moving again once soils sit in the 6 to 13 degree range, with a lift in dry matter over about three weeks. It works as a top-up on green,..