quavers
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
http://www.upleurope.com/Product-label pdf/Minstrel.pdf this is the product I was supplied to use on docks , you can see it working the next day , best applied at the rosette stage as mentioned above .
Dock Survival !
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davedb
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- Location
- Staffordshire
I’ve had good results using Forefront on docks but you can’t silage the grass it has to be grazed
livestock 1
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How much is it?
- Location
- East Sussex
Forefront is the dogs danglies on docks and most other stuff too but it isn’t half expensive.
davedb
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- Location
- Staffordshire
O yes it’s dear but worth it IMO, I do a bit of contract spraying, all on grassland and try to use 100l of water per acre which seems to help, a lot of the bigger spraying outfits would use a lot less and it always seems slower to work with less water
ollie989898
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That is only fluroxypyr. Same as hatchet, starane and the others.
You could get docks to wilt in hours by spraying them with cats pish. It is no clue as to actual efficacy.
Ive known people swear blind that 1L of MCPA was enough to kill docks because it makes them keel over in a day. Doesnt work that way.
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ollie989898
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Forefront is a bit over kill for docks really. Its 25 quid an acre before adjuvant which is near double the cost of a doxstar lookalike treatment.
I only tended to use pastor or forefront when I was confronted by a real mess containing multiple species.
ollie989898
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The label on most Dow products specify 300L/ha of water. I certainly would not do any grassland spraying at less than 200L.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Thought it was withdrawn?
davedb
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- Location
- Staffordshire
I sprayed 18acre with it yesterday so must of been withdrawn quick
- Location
- South Wales UK
Though gone while ago?I sprayed 18acre with it yesterday so must of been withdrawn quick
Maybe something simular name?
ollie989898
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Pharaoh.
- Location
- South Wales UK
No it was fore something?
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
Has anyone else had good control of docks with Envy (fluroxypyr and florasulam)? Docks aren't mentioned on the label, the rep told me it wouldn't do anything for docks yet the field I sprayed has been dock free for 2 years now.
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
They'd start to keel over after you'd finished headland!
ollie989898
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Ive lost count of the stuff thats been taken off the list. Back in the day cimarron, MCPA and 2L of CMPP would sort anything
ollie989898
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Its because they are all dissolved in solvents and dewax the weeds near instantly. I had one guy do a chem store clear-out one day and even the hedgerows looked like they had been flamethrowered.
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
That's a good few years ago now. It was relaunched maybe the following year, it's now only approved for grass that will be grazed and you have to sign for it when you buy it.