FIVE is the critical number for farmers looking to make the switch from the use of MCPA phenoxy based broadleaf herbicides to 2,4-D based products. Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry ...

Field studies were conducted to evaluate POST herbicides with adjuvants for the control of three-cornered jack in winter wheat. The herbicides evaluated were fluroxypyr 9.7% w/w + MCPA 38.8% w/w ...

Although the Roundup brand and glyphosate have been synonymous for many years, that’s not the case anymore. You’ll need to ...

A wet spring and summer means lots of weeds, so which ones do you have and what is the best way to get rid of them? Hit them hard and hit them before they seed was the tip from weed agronomist Chris ...

Careless storage, handling or use of pesticides can easily cause breaches of the legal limit for pesticides in drinking water. Rush control and MCPA Spraying rushes can very easily lead to breaches of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, October 15, 2009) New research from the Monell Center and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine reveals that phenoxy herbicides block T1R3, a nutrient-sensing taste receptor found in ...

Phenoxy herbicides are frequently used to control volunteer canola populations. However, there have been claims that poor control could be due to cold acclimation of canola plants in the spring. The ...

Pesticide contamination of drinking water sources quadrupled since 2014, and has been linked to farmers using MCPA herbicide to prevent the overgrowth of rushes which can render their land ineligible ...

Most gardeners know about an herbicide called Roundup. The first products on the market called Roundup contained glyphosate. Glyphosate was discovered in 1950 by a Swiss chemist working for a ...

Northern Ireland Water has been ordered to set out its plans to prevent another spike of herbicide in the drinking water of a County Tyrone town. It follows an incident last July when levels of MCPA ...