This Blog section is for news about Rainbow & Brown products and their application but especially new products.
This is the place to come to ask a question or find an answer about what is that weed and how best to deal with it for your specific circumstances.
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In reply to a customer question Sept 20131. Decision is a good spray for pasture-friendly weed control in new pasture. It handles fathen, and quite a few other relevant species. See attached copy of the directions leaflet for weeds controlled, rates, etc. Note that it's only fully safe on clover after the clover has passed the two-leaf (i.e. tw..
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In reply to a customer question regarding control of Gravel Groundsel Gravel groundsel (Senecio skirrhodon) is, according to Massey University & other authorities, controlled by nearly all herbicides, except for a few specialist cropping herbicides. But there aren't any herbicides specifically registered for gravel groundsel, so we've got to make a..
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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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Regarding clover, you'll be aware that glyphosate is not effective against it. And you will also probably be aware that the herbicides that are very effective against clover (triclopyr, metsulfuron-methyl) do have some residual effect that may well be harmful to your flower species. Triclopyr is one of the actives in Rainbow & Brown's GrassMate, ..
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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..
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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,..