Univoq problems spring 2023

[Flat 10]

I’ve heard from several people that it was out in Europe a year earlier and they had no problems at all because they use a higher water rate? Surely this complete rubbish? Seems most unbelievable.

 

[warksfarmer]

Who's Christmas card list are they afraid of being deleted from then?

Controlled by the NFU, AHDB, AIC so they darent run a story on the biggest con in agriculture owned by these entities.

 

[Salopian_Will]

Used 70lt last week, 200lt/ha and clean water put through the lines between tanks and full triple rinse washout at the end of the day.
I thought I'd got away with it but this evening I cleaned the suction filter and noticed all the o rings in the filter had got very over stretched and felt very soft.

Another thing I noticed Is on the last tank of the day I added a sniff of talius to the tank mix of univoq, mn and epsotop and that field of wheat looks like it's just had a grass weed SU, it's yellow and a bit sickly looking.
It seems to be a corteva thing to make their chems stink. talius smells nearly as strong as univoq but it does smell a bit like pear drops and I kind of like it.

O rings on the filters always expand and get ‘squidgy’regardless of the Chem. Leave them out in the sun for a a few days and they’ll shrink back.

 

[teslacoils]

Today's Aquino:

4/2/22
24/4/22

Production dates. Blue and white lids.

 

[David.]

I’ve heard from several people that it was out in Europe a year earlier and they had no problems at all because they use a higher water rate? Surely this complete rubbish? Seems most unbelievable.

What I was told too, by agronomist.
Smell is basically acetone, isn't it, and that is a powerful solvent. Which may explain how higher water rates appear to help by increasing dilution.

 

[Flat 10]

O rings on the filters always expand and get ‘squidgy’regardless of the Chem. Leave them out in the sun for a a few days and they’ll shrink back.

That's a great tip if it works

 

[David.]

It certainly is, because they are certainly not cheap enough to discard regularly.

 

[Salopian_Will]

That's a great tip if it works

Might need more than a few days, but I have a couple I rotate, as and when I check/clean the filters.

 

[bobk]

Today's Aquino:

4/2/22
24/4/22

Production dates. Blue and white lids.

I've got Aquino , univoq + a bit of teb .

 

[teslacoils]

I've got Aquino , univoq + a bit of teb .

Went on fine. Sprayer seems ok.

 

[Jo28]

we've used it three years on the trot. no problems

 

[pgilliat]

Has eaten about a quarter of nozzle diaphragms, Ramsey is now leaking fluid as well.
Was 2022 batch if that makes a difference, let more trouble then last year's.

 

[David.]

What water rate, any tank mix?

 

[FarmerBruce]

Used 160 litres of it here at 140l/ha. All had terpal in tank too, except 30ha that had starane instead. No issues at all…..yet! All at 1l/ha.

 

[yellow belly]

Had no problem 100 litres per ha water rate
househam sprayer

 

[yellow belly]

That would be a shame because it is a lot cheaper than the alternatives, and a good fungicide.
But I will never understand companies making products that stink, and let the whole parish know you are or have been spraying.
Can only assume it is to thwart organic night-time "stealth" sprayers.

Not many chemical do not stink
Avadex pdm ect

especially to the non farming nose

 

[Salopian_Will]

Had no problem 100 litres per ha water rate
househam sprayer

Certainly a common theme with Househam sprayers.

We’ve had no problems either with 1.5l/ha and 100l/ha. Rinsed at the end of each day.

 

[T C]

Househam here with no problems last year or this year.
Looks like the best product and not the most expensive.