Smelly Agchem spray

Widgetone

Member
Trade
Location
Westish Suffolk
Just to reveal my complete ignorance in matters chemical, but what is that really stinky lurid green in colour spray being used everywhere at the moment?
Been applied to just drilled cereal (?) fields.

Would have thought the manufacturers could at least make it smell of pear drops or something less offensive...
 

Oat

Member
Location
Cheshire
Not green, but if you see an orange/yellow colour it could be a commonly used herbicide applied to fields soon after drilling to prevent weeds emerging. The smell is actually a solvent in the product, as opposed to the herbicidal acting ingredient, and this solvent was first discovered and used as a chemical dye.
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Trinexapec-ethyl or moddus as it was first called smell’s nice!

Amazing how pendimethlin was brought into the industry as a coloured dye and then they realised it worked better than most other products since trifluralin.
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Just to reveal my complete ignorance in matters chemical, but what is that really stinky lurid green in colour spray being used everywhere at the moment?
Been applied to just drilled cereal (?) fields.

Would have thought the manufacturers could at least make it smell of pear drops or something less offensive...

It’s the naphtha solvent you can smell. I don’t think the smell is very good public relations personally but I hadn’t considered the deterrent effect of drinking it.
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Most of the triazoles have a sweet smelling solvent but Punch C and Sanction were particularly pungent.
Was BASF Vortex a name of one of the first SDHI’s? I remember that was a pink/purple in colour and smelled very nice! Odd how some of us know 90% of chemicals by the smell :rolleyes: even the insecticides..
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
It’s the naphtha solvent you can smell. I don’t think the smell is very good public relations personally but I hadn’t considered the deterrent effect of drinking it.

The small
The colour
and that’s before the public/media ask about what’s in it to do the weed killing.

Plenty of similar or worse chemicals used in other industries (including food manufacturinf) but behind closed doors so the public only see the end result. That said plenty of toxic chemicals used in the house....but sold by Tesco/Amazon so must be ok.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 80 42.3%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 15.9%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

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

  • 1,292
  • 1
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/
Top