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When selecting a herbicide there are many factors to consider.  What weeds will it kill?  Is it pasture friendly?  Does it harm clover?  Often you might end up with 2 or 3 options that all might do the job so how do you choose?  Well the one thing that often gets overlooked is the price.  Many might look at the 20L cost but this doesn’t really he..

On the back of many international and successful trials, there had been little done in New Zealand on the benefits of humic acid and fulvic acid, especially when used in conjunction with Nitrogen. NZ trials were done back in 2012 by Phillip Schofi eld, Nicky Watt and Max Schofield testing the benefits of using humic acid granules (potassium humate/..

New Product – K-MATE 100% Soluble Potassium Humate/Humic Acid What is K-Mate? Potassium humate is an organic-based soil conditioner that feed the microbes in the soil.  It contains highly active humic accod and fulvic acid and is compatible with most other fertilisers. Soluble Humate Formulation Some of you might have tried humate and fulvates..

Which Rainbow & Brown Herbicides are Grass and Clover Friendly? Below is a handy reference table to show which of our products are safe to use on pasture and / or clover and which have some residual effect which might affect replanting. Note: in some circumstances and at certain times of the year or at the rates required to control some weeds the..

Controlling Weeds in New Pasture This one can be tricky as many of the herbicides used for general weed control in established pasture are just too tough on new pasture and you risk damaging your new pasture. Whether grass weeds or broadleaf weeds they can be either annual or perennial. It is really important that you are on top of perennial weed..

We were recently asked the following question.I am looking to do a final gorse spray before I plant pine seedlings this winter. Which should I use, MSF or Grassmate to ensure that the pine seedlings are not affected? And how long should the gap be before the last use of MSF/Grassmate and planting pine seedlings? Our reply was:Both MSF600 and GrassM..

GrassMate or Triclo - which one should I use?We frequently get asked whether a customer should use Triclo or GrassMate. Well here's some guidance.GrassMate and Triclo are often similar in price and for most of 2021 were the same price. This has happened following changes in the relative cost of certain raw materials.Both GrassMate and Triclo do muc..

How long should it take stuff to die, after you’ve sprayed it?     It depends on three things.   First is the species, size and maturity of the weed involved.  Fast growing species, especially annuals, will die quickly because the herbicide is transported right through their smaller and simpler structures very quickly. Older, larger, and more ma..

Agapanthus is not really a weed, of course. It’s more of an ornamental flower, and a pretty nice one too, in its place. It is, for example, better able than almost anything else to handle the carbon monoxide laden atmosphere in the middle of a busy motorway. That’s why we see so many planted there, and looking very pretty too. The problem, however,..

We got this question.recommended either Glyphosate or GA200 for general weed control in our home garden. For use under hedging and general gardens with a mix of planting. Which of the two products would you recommend please? The answer depends upon a few key points.Both are what you call non-selective so will kill most things.  Grass, weeds etc.  T..

Foam Crusher is an organosilicone based defoamer agent.  These are products that are added to herbicide and pesticide mixes to reduce the amount of foaming.  Although mainly used by the helicopter boys (and girls) to allow them to fill up and get spraying quickly, there are plenty of people boom spraying that have the same issues, so they too are u..

Glyphosate Continues to RiseShort supply of raw material and increased production and shipping costs create almost the “perfect storm”!Increased global demand coupled with China’s Yunnan district have cut power supply by 10-30% resulting in shortages and huge increases in the price of yellow phosphorous which is the main raw material used for glyph..