Bayer Specticle Total
The pitch: Specticle Total is a non-selective herbicide that kills existing weeds and prevents new ones for up to six months.
- It is rainproof in 30 minutes and uses less active ingredient, which results in less herbicide in the environment.
- It’s easily mixed in a backpack sprayer and can be used in both landscapes and hardscapes, including mulched areas and around ornamental plants and grasses.
- Specticle Total gives landscape managers total control of weeds for up to six months.
For more information: Bayercropscience.us
CIVITAS WEEDfree BRAND Concentrate
The pitch: CIVITAS WEEDfree BRAND Concentrate is a hybrid selective herbicide formulated with fewer active ingredients to kill more than 60 listed broadleaf weeds, including clover, dandelions, poison ivy and sumac.
- Its microtechnology minimizes the three-way mix active ingredients while enhancing the penetration into the plant.
- Visible injury can be seen on weeds within 12 hours.
- The white emulsion produced when sprayed identifies treated areas, reducing duplication of efforts and product waste.
For more information: Civitaslawn.com
Nufarm Last Call
The pitch: Last Call provides postemergent control of crabgrass, particularly in the mid-tiller stage of growth where quinclorac-based herbicides struggle to provide consistent control.
- Last Call also controls a broad spectrum of grassy and broadleaf weeds including goosegrass, foxtail, Japanese stiltgrass, dandelion, clover and lespedeza.
- It can be used for the selective removal of Bermudagrass from zoysiagrass and cool season turf.
- Last Call can be applied to all managed turf areas including residential and commercial lawns.
For more information: Nufarm.com
Triathlon BA biofungicide/bactericide
The pitch: A preventative biofungicide, Triathlon BA is labeled for use in both organic and non-organic production on a wide variety of fungal and bacterial diseases.
- With the active ingredient Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Triathlon BA provides preventive control of many foliar and soil-borne diseases such as botrytis, powdery mildew, downy mildew, rusts, leaf spots, alternaria, pythium, phytophthora, rhizoctonia, fusarium and bacterial spot.
- The product is packaged in one-gallon containers, four to a case, 36 cases to a pallet.
- Triathlon BA features a “caution” signal word and carries a 4-hour restricted entry interval.
For more information: Ohp.com
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