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06 Oct
In response to a cusomer question about lily control.
I think you must be referring to Arum Lily? But my advice is much the same for all lilies anyway.
According to all the best authorities on lily control, you should not need the paraquat part of your proposed mix. As an example go to the ARC (Auckland Regional Council) info page about the Arum Lily, and you'll see that they suggest a mix of MSF600 and Glyphosate.
Note that they do recommend multiple treatments to achieve a good kill and to prevent and/or minimise the subsequent "daughter" (seedling) growth. That's very important with a lily because the rhizome system beneath the ground will almost certainly survive a single spraying of the foliage, and then it shoots again.
The ARC people do have a lot of experience with control of lily species that have achieved pest level, and I reckon their advice is the most reliable in this case.
26 Oct
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Every NZ farm that uses hazardous substances needs an up-to-date chemical inventory and a current safety data sheet (SDS) for each product, kept where workers and emergency services can get to them. When WorkSafe checked 680 sheep, beef and dairy farms in late 2025, missing SDSs and inventories were behind 94% of the improvement notices issued. B..
08 Oct
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A wetter helps spray droplets spread across a leaf and stay there, instead of beading up and rolling off before the herbicide gets in. Use a non-ionic wetter for everyday spraying, and step up to an organosilicone wetter for waxy, hairy, dusty or stressed weeds. Always check the herbicide label first, because it tells you whether a wetter is need..
30 Sep
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Spring is the only time of year a wasp queen is on her own. She's out of hibernation, building a small nest by herself and feeding her first larvae with no workers to back her up. Catch her now and that nest never forms, which means no colony of thousands and no new queens next autumn.
✓Queens are active from early spring, roughly September to..
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