Orchards herbicides used

Use pattern Terbacil is a substituted uracil herbicide used primarily to control annual and perennial grass and broadleaved weeds in apple orchards, alfalfa, asparagus, mint and sugar cane. Other minor uses include blueberries, strawberries and seed grasses... 

Herbicides Used in Orchards, Vineyards, and Small Fruit... 

Uses Nonselective, foliage-applied, systemic, triazole herbicide used in uncropped land and orchards to control certain grasses and to kill annual and perennial grasses and weeds. It is also effective on poison ivy, poison oak and aquatic weeds. 

C2H4N4. A translocated herbicide, m.p. 157-159 C, used as a non-selective herbicide on fallow land or in established orchards. 

Sevin. 1-Naphthalenol methylcarbanate [63-25-2] (Sevin) (44) was developed as an insecticide. However, the conception of the molecule, in the mid-1950s, was as a possible herbicide. The compound ultimately was useless as a herbicide, but in routine testing it was discovered to be an excellent insecticide. Sevin was active in the oat mesocotyl assay and demonstrated weak auxin-like activity. During the development of Sevin, it caused massive apple drop in the western United States in an orchard being treated for insects. It is used (ca 1993) as an abscising agent to thin apples. 

The major crops for agrochemical use are cotton, rice, maize, vegetables and top fruit for insecticides small grain cereals, rice, vines and top fruit for fungicides, and maize, soybeans, small grain cereals, rice, industrial weed control, plantations and orchards for herbicides. Other crops that may be of interest include sugar beet, oil-seed rape, potatoes and citrus dependent upon your company s presence in these crops. 

Terbuthylazine is another novel chloro-.v-triazinc that has found very important uses in Europe for control of weeds in corn, as well as vineyards and orchards. It was introduced at lower application rates than the early atrazine rates and was not registered for use in roads, railways, and noncropland. Terbuthylazine is used in combination with other herbicides and has continued to help replace some uses of atrazine and simazine in many countries of Europe. 

Triazine herbicides provide selective weed control in crops such as corn, sorghum, and sugarcane. In addition, some members of the triazine family are used for weed control in orchards, horticultural, and perennial crops, etc. A unique selective use of triazine herbicides is in triazine-tolerant rapeseed. Although triazine herbicides provide control of a wide variety of grass and broadleaf weeds, the long-term, widespread, and repetitive use of triazine herbicides in crop and noncrop situations has led to the selection of many triazine-resistant weeds. The physiological and biochemical basis of triazine selectivity between crops and weeds and of resistance to triazine herbicides in weeds is well understood. 

Finally, certain triazine herbicides can be used selectively in orchards and in some horticultural crops. In this case, selectivity is not based only on physiological differences between species, but on physical selectivity associated with the location of the herbicide and the roots of the crop and weed species in the soil. Triazine herbicides such as simazine, which has very low solubility in water, remain close to the soil surface in most mineral soils. Careful application of simazine in horticultural or fruit crops can result in the herbicide being available to control shallow-rooted weed species without harming the deeper-rooted perennial species. The success of this use is dependent not only on the relative rooting depths of the tolerant and susceptible species, but also on soil conditions and other factors that may affect herbicide fate and movement. 

In some orchards where repeated applications of triazine herbicides have been used, there are isolated instances of triazine-resistant weeds. These include common groundsel in the United Kingdom (Holliday and Putwain, 1977) and common lambsquarters and pigweeds in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Bavaria. Some studies indicated an increased prevalence of some tolerant weeds in orchards when triazine herbicides were used in certain crop weed systems of common vetch (Heeney et al., 1981a), field bindweed (Meith and Connell, 1985), and quackgrass (Hertz and Wildung, 1978). 

Some orchards have been treated with complete herbicide coverage similar to that used in noncultivated citrus (Robinson and O Kennedy, 1978). Complete herbicide coverage is not used in deciduous orchards in most California soils as strip treatment has proved to be more flexible and inexpensive and has the added benefit of inter-row vegetation. 

A variety of preemergence herbicides are used in orchards. They may be used alone or in combination, and are often applied with a low rate of simazine. These combinations are used to increase the weed control spectrum and to decrease the chance of weed resistance. 

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