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Weed control this spring is likely to be a little more challenging than normal after the wet and relatively mild winter, so the launch of a new adjuvant for use with post-emergence herbicides may just help herbicides hit their mark. CPM finds out more. Trials have shown significant increases in the speed of kill. By Lucy de la Pasture Sorrento may be best known for its Mediterranean climate and the delicious limoncello it produces, but the Italian town also lends its name to a new adjuvant from specialist company Interagro. Its novel formulation is specifically designed to facilitate the performance of post-emergence herbicides, giving weeds ‘the kiss of death’. Treating weeds at the post-emergence timing can pose a particular set of challenges, explains Sarah Ferrie, marketing manager at Interagro, but Sorrento has been engineered specifically to overcome them. “A post-em herbicide must come into contact with the weed and then be retained long enough on the leaf surface to penetrate and be absorbed into the plant. The rate of movement of water-soluble herbicides into the leaf is slow, so less herbicide is absorbed by weeds. “Once in the plant, the active ingredient must then reach the target site…
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