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DIRECTIONS FOR USE

Restraints

• DO NOT apply with aircraft.

• DO NOT plant durum wheat (Triticum durum) after the application of Kudos 850 WG (refer to Crop Rotation Recommendations for further advice).

• DO NOT apply if heavy rain has been forecast within 48 hours.

• DO NOT apply unless incorporation by sowing (IBS) can be performed within 3 days of application.

• DO NOT apply to waterlogged soil.

• DO NOT allow first irrigation tailwater from land treated with Kudos to enter aquatic and wetland areas including aquacultural ponds, surface streams and rivers.

Spray Drift Restraints

• DO NOT allow bystanders to come into contact with the spray cloud.

• DO NOT apply in a manner that may cause an unacceptable impact to native vegetation, agricultural crops, landscaped gardens and aquaculture production, or cause contamination of plant or livestock commodities, outside the application site from spray drift.

• DO NOT apply unless the wind speed is between 3 and 20 kilometres per hour at the application site during the time of application.

• DO NOT apply if there are hazardous surface temperature inversion conditions present at the application site during the time of application.

Surface temperature inversion conditions exist most evenings one to two hours before sunset and persist until one to two hours after sunrise.

• DO NOT apply by a boom sprayer unless the following requirements are met:

  • Spray droplets not smaller than a COARSE spray droplet size category.

  • Minimum distances between the application site and downwind sensitive areas (see ‘Mandatory buffer zones’ section of the following table titled ‘Buffer zones for boom sprayers’) are observed.

Application Ensure complete and even spray coverage of the soil is achieved. Poor spray coverage may result from application to ridged or excessively cloddy soil or in situations of high stubble, plant residue or other ground cover. A significant reduction in weed control may result where stubble, plant residue or other ground cover exceeds 50%, and in situations where a ‘cold’ or incomplete burn of stubble results in a mass of material which can act as a physical barrier between the herbicide and germinating weeds - this can be exacerbated in header trails where there may be greater weed seed numbers and higher levels of plant residue. Weed control can be particularly affected where Kudos is applied to a barrier of stubble, plant residue or other ground cover and there is insufficient following rainfall to transfer Kudos to the soil surface and the germinating weed seeds.

Equipment

• Ground Sprayers: Standard boom sprayers only are recommended and must be fitted with bypass or mechanical agitation.

• Aircraft: DO NOT apply Kudos 850 WG by aircraft.

Compatibility Crop damage seen in adverse conditions, particularly wet or waterlogged conditions (refer Crop Safety above) may be exacerbated when Kudos is used in conjunction with other herbicides that may also cause crop damage in such conditions. Always refer to the crop tolerance, plant back restrictions, rate recommendations and other directions for use on the label of the tank mix partner.

Sprayer clean-up Following the use of Kudos, the spraying equipment should be thoroughly cleaned before it is used for application of other products. Cleaning should occur immediately following application of Kudos. The spray unit should first be completely emptied. The sprayer, including all filters and lines, should be thoroughly rinsed with water, to remove all traces of product.

Crop Rotation Recommendations Kudos breaks down by microbial degradation, which is favored by warm, moist aerobic soil. Minimum recropping intervals (months after Kudos application) have been established for Kudos to minimize the risk of damage to following crops. However, environmental and agronomic factors make it impossible to eliminate all risk and therefore the potential for damage to following crops exists. Rainfall of less than the minimum interim rainfall required may result in extended recropping intervals. Interim rainfall is the total rainfall between the application of Kudos and planting of the particular following crop. For recropping with winter crops, where a minimum of 250 mm of interim rainfall is required, if rain from application to the end of spring is less than 125 mm and isolated heavy summer and autumn falls and break rains are required to achieve the 250 mm interim rainfall, then extended recropping intervals may apply.