Axial Pro

RESTRICTIONS

To avoid the build up of resistance do not apply products containing an ACCase inhibitor herbicide more than twice to any crop. In addition, do not use this product in mixture or sequence with any other product containing pinoxaden.
Do not use on oats
Do not spray crops under stress or to crops suffering from waterlogging, pest attack, disease or frost
Do not spray crops undersown with grass mixtures
Rain within one hour after application may reduce grass-weed control
Do not allow spray to drift onto neighbouring crops of oats, ryegrass or maize
Avoid the use of hormone-containing herbicides in mixture or sequence with AXIAL
Pro. When AXIAL Pro is applied first, leave 7 days before applying hormone herbicides.
If hormone-containing products are applied first, leave 21 days before AXIAL Pro is applied.

GENERAL INFORMATION

AXIAL Pro is a foliar acting grass-weed killer for the control of wild oats, Italian ryegrass and perennial rye-grass (from seed) in winter and spring wheat and winter and spring barley. It is an ACCase inhibitor, also classified by the Herbicide Resistance Action Committee as ‘Group A’.

WEEDS CONTROLLED

AXIAL Pro controls wild oats, Italian rye-grass and perennial rye-grass (from seed) in winter and spring wheat and winter and spring barley.

RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT

This product contains pinoxaden which is an ACCase inhibitor, also classified by the
Herbicide Resistance Action Committee as ‘Group A’.
Use only as part of a resistance management strategy that includes cultural methods of control and does not use ACCase inhibitors as the sole chemical method of grassweed control.
Applying a second product containing an ACCase inhibitor to a crop will increase the risk of resistance development; only use a second ACCase inhibitor to control different weeds at a different timing.
Strains of some annual grasses (e.g. black-grass, wild-oats, and Italian rye-grass) have developed resistance to herbicides which may lead to poor control. A strategy for preventing and managing such resistance should be adopted. Guidelines have been produced by the Weed Resistance Action Group and copies are available from the HGCA, CPA, your distributor, crop advisor or product manufacturer.
Key aspects of the AXIAL Pro resistance management strategy are:
• Always follow WRAG guidelines for preventing and managing herbicide resistant grass weeds.
• Do not use AXIAL Pro or any other ACCase inhibitor as the sole means of grass weed control in successive crops.
• Use grassweed herbicides with different modes of action throughout the cropping rotation.
• To reduce the risk of developing resistance, applications should be made to young, actively growing weeds.
• Use tank/product mixes or sequences of herbicides with different modes of action within individual crops, or successive crops.
• Monitor weed control effectiveness and investigate any odd patches of poor grass weed control. If unexplained, contact your agronomist who may consider a resistance test appropriate.
• Use crop rotation and other cultural control measures to prevent and manage herbicide resistant grass weeds.
• Only apply AXIAL Pro once per crop.
AXIAL Pro has no residual activity. Optimum weed control will only be achieved when all grass weeds have emerged.
The activity of AXIAL Pro is not affected by soil type, organic matter or straw residues.
AXIAL Pro does not control broad-leaved weeds and if these are present a specific broad-leaved weed herbicide will be required.

CROP SPECIFIC INFORMATION

Crops
AXIAL Pro can be used on all varieties of winter and spring wheat and winter and spring barley.

Timing
Spray in the autumn, winter or spring from two true leaves (GS12) to before flag leaf sheath extending stage of the crop. Spraying should be done when the majority of weeds have germinated, but before weed competition reduces yield.

Rates of use
Apply AXIAL Pro at 0.55 – 0.82 litres per hectare.