A new specialist soil adjuvant herbicide has been released to ensure that weed competition is removed early and effectively to protect potato and bean crops.
It is hoped BackRow will ensure that weed competition is removed early and effectively, allowing these crops to emerge unhindered and to grow more vigorously early in the season.
BackRow will also reduce the number of fine spray droplets below 100 microns, and so minimise drift and improve the spray pattern.
Alan East, technical manager for Interagro, said: “Based on a unique blend of non-ionic surfactants, emulsifiers, sticking agents and specialist oils, BackRow has been specifically designed to optimise coverage and deposition of pre-emergence herbicides onto the soil surface. Its use ensures that its partner residual herbicide is uniformly distributed over the soil surface and is kept within the upper soil profile where the weeds are most active. It also binds the herbicide firmly onto soil particles, reducing the risk of leaching and increasing herbicide persistency.”
BackRow is suitable for use with a range of pre-emergence herbicides in potatoes including linuron, metribuzin and prosulfocarb and also in beans including clomazone, linuron, pendimethalin, pendimethalin and imazamox and prosulfocarb. It is approved for use in potatoes, beans, peas, maize, sugar beet, cereals and oilseed rape.
“BackRow works well with any herbicide that acts through roots and shoots and also when weeds have yet to emerge. It is not designed to be used with contact herbicides. It works well on light, medium or heavy soils but is not recommended on very light soils such as coarse sands, sand, fine sand or loamy coarse sand. It is recommended at a dose rate of 400ml/ha, irrespective of water volumes, and is particularly effective at low water volumes,” said East.
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