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A selective herbicide for the control of difficult broadleaf weeds in cereals, maize, pasture and waste areas. (Controls atrazine resistant fathen in maize)

Beware: Apply this product carefully. Spray drift may cause serious damage to desirable plants. A strategy to minimise spray drift should be employed at all times when applying spray near aquatic environments.

Animal Safety: Poisonous plants may become more palatable after spraying. Stock should be kept away from the area until the plants have died down. DO NOT graze treated areas or feed treated crops or threshings to livestock for two weeks after application.

DIRECTIONS FOR USE:
Add Cutlass Herbicide to water in the spray tank and agitate. Where a second chemical is to be used, always add the Cutlass Herbicide to the spray tank first. Spray when weeds are young and actively growing, and unless stated otherwise, before the 3-5 true leaf stage. Do not spray when rain seem likely to occur within 6 hours. Do not spray when weeds are wet with dew or rain or under stress from drought, extreme cold or waterlogging. Do not spray outside recommended crop growth stages as crop damage may result.
Application Equipment: Cutlass Herbicide is suited for application with conventional boom and spot application equipment. To avoid spray drift, do not use nozzle/pressure combinations that produce fine droplets. Maintain water rates at those recommended – refer Application Table.
Compatibility: May be used in tank mixtures with most other products.
Spectrum of Control: Cutlass Herbicide is active against many broadleaf weeds and is particularly useful in assisting the activity of phenoxy herbicides such as MCPA and 2,4-D. Cutlass Herbicide can be mixed with Glyphosate where white clover control is desired. Do not plant legume crops (peas, lucerne, clover, lupins) within 28 days of using Cutlass Herbicide. Grass, cereal and Brassica crops do not require any waiting period.
Weeds controlled: Alligator weed, black medic, black nightshade, Californian thistle, cape weed, catsear, chamomiles, chickweed, cleavers, clovers, cornbind, cut leaved geranium, dandelion, docks, dove’s foot, fathen, fennel, field bindweed, fireweed, goat’s rue, greater bindweed, hawkbit, hemp nettle, hedge mustard, hemlock, inkweed, leafy spurge, mallows, mouse eared chickweed, Onehunga weed, nipplewort, pearlwort, pennyroyal, perennial sow thistle, prostrate amaranth, redroot (amaranth), ragwort, selfheal, shepherd’s purse, sheep’s sorrel, sow thistle, stinking mayweed, spiny emex, spurrey, thorn apples, vetches, wild onion, wild carrot, willow weed (redshank), wireweed, yarrow. Cutlass Herbicide does not control fumitory, plantains, starweed, stone crop, or speedwells. NOTE: Cutlass Herbicide injures clover and re-establishment of clover in pasture may be difficult for up to 2 months after spraying.

DIRECT DRILLING OF BRASSICAS, CEREALS AND PASTURE GRASSES
Rate: Apply 600mL Cutlass Herbicide + 2.2 litres of a glyphosate 490 g/L product in 100-200 litres water per hectare. See glyphosate label rates for problem weeds
Comments: Graze pasture and allow 5-10 cm of regrowth before spraying. Allow 3 days for chemical to be absorbed, then drill as soon as possible (5-7 days for couch, Californian thistle)

WHEAT, BARLEY, OATS
Rate: 140-280mL Cutlass Herbicide + 1.5-2 litres of a MCPA 375 g/L product in 100-200 litres water per hectare
Comments: Apply only when the crop is at the 4-5 leaf stage between tillering and jointing. Use the lower rate for young weeds and the higher rate for more advanced weeds and where Californian thistle is present. Do not spray crops undersown with clover or Lucerne.

TURF
Rate: 800mL Cutlass Herbicide + 3 litres of a MCPA 375 g/L in 150-200 litres water per hectare.
Comments: Apply as a boom spray.

LINSEED
Rate: 240-280mL per 100-200 litres water per hectare
Comments:  Spray after the crop has 4 true leaves and before flower buds have formed in stem tips. Do not use when crop is undersown with clovers or lucerne.

MAIZE
Rate: 400-600mL per 200 litres water per hectare
Comments: For control of fathen (including atrazine resistant), field bindweed and Californian thistle. Apply as an overall spray when the maize is 10-30cm in height. For larger weeds use the higher rate. On short relative maturity hybrids (100 days or less) use the lower rate and apply at the earlier growth stage. For small maize and weeds, position boom height relative to the ground. As maize and weeds grow, raise boom height to adjust for maize height. (Avoid positioning nozzles directly over the maize whorl).

MARROW-STEMMED KALE (CHOU MOLLIER), THOUSAND HEADED KALE
Rate: 280-340mL per 200 litres water per hectare.
Comments: Spray when crop is at the 4-6 the leaf stage when weeds are small and actively growing.

OIL SEED RAPE
Rate: 200-280mL per 200-300 litres water per hectare
Comments: Spray when crop is at the 4-6 true leaf stage when weeds are small and actively growing. Do not exceed the higher rate and do not spray crops in stressed growth conditions.

PASTURE
Rate: 100mL Cutlass Herbicide + 500mL of a MCPA 375 g/L per 100 litres water
Comments: For the control of Californian thistle, apply as a spot spray just prior to flowering

Rate: 120-140 mL Cutlass Herbicide + 660mL of a 2,4- D 520 g/L product per 100 litres water
Comments: For ragwort control, apply as a spot spray. Avoid spraying surrounding pasture. Even repeated applications may not control regrowth ragwort, which is often characterised by multicrowns

WASTE AREAS
Rate: 80 – 120 mL Cutlass Herbicide + 330mL of a 2,4-D 520 g/L per 100 litres water
Comments: Apply as a wetting spray in spring or autumn. Add an Amitrole 400 g/L product or Glyphosate 490 g/L product to the mixture for grass weed control. Add Simanex SC Herbicide for long term control.