Pesticide Trade Names

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Similar looking labels are worse than similar names.
We had a mishap when the wrong packets were used (wasn't me)

Always read the label, it says it on every one.
Yes. It’s a must to carefully check the label. I don’t know why the active isn’t printed larger actually and at least whether it’s a herbicide , fungicide etc. Its as if it’s a secret.
 

ewald

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Mid-Lincs
Some years ago, father sprayed a field of oats with Commando - a grass weed herbicide - with predictable results. His excuse? His intended product also began with the letter C .......he retired from the sprayer shortly afterwards.
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Similar looking labels are worse than similar names.
We had a mishap when the wrong packets were used (wasn't me)

Always read the label, it says it on every one.

Especially those same size cans that have different weight/volume products in them.

Or cans that have litres marked up the side of the can, but have a solid product inside which is measured in grams/kg.
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
An all too easy mistake to make:
(Not us, but not far away, wiped out an oat crop at less than 0.1L/ha)

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Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
Slightly concerned, if users muddle names, what else?
You should be. i did my PA1 with 2 blokes who couldn't read the cans, one because he wasn't english and the other because he was thick. All the examiner said was, "it's not a test of reading" and read the cans and questions to them. Since that day I have become even more cynical as they both passed and neither was safe to do the job IMO.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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