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For use as a seed treatment on cereals, forage brassicas, grass seed, maize, sweetcorn, potatoes, pumpkins and winter squash

DIRECTIONS FOR USE

Seed treated with Sombrero 600 Seed Dressing is dyed a distinctive red colour. Containers of treated seed must be labelled with the following:
1. Seed treated with Sombrero 600 Seed Dressing must not be used for human or animal consumption.
2. Treated seed may be harmful to seed eating birds, and should be properly sown and completely covered by soil.
3. Excess seed is not to be left in areas accessible to birds.
4. Withholding period: Stock must not graze cereals, forage brassicas, maize, sweetcorn or pasture within 42 days of planting. (This statement must be in bold print on the labels of treated seed containers).

Sombrero 600 Seed Dressing is a systemic seed treatment insecticide for the protection of cereals from grass grub larvae and aphids, forage brassicas from aphids, Argentine stem weevil, springtails (Sminthuridae family) and wheat bug, grass seedlings from grass grub larvae and black beetle adults, maize and sweetcorn seedlings from Argentine stem weevil and black beetle, potatoes, from aphids and pumpkins and winter squash from aphids, Argentine stem weevil, grass grub beetle, Lucerne flea and springtails.

Mixing:
Prior to mixing shake, stir or roll the container to re-suspend the formulation. When decanting ensure adequate agitation is maintained.

RECOMMENDATIONS

CEREALS
Pest: Grass grub larvae Aphids
Rate: Use 90 mL/100 kg of seed. Mix with sufficient water (usually 10 litres/tonne of seed) and apply to seen ensuring even coverage. 

FORAGE BRASSICAS
Pest: Aphids Argentine stem weevil Springtails (Sminthuridae family) Wheat bug
Rate: Use 12-24 mL/kg of seed. Apply to seed ensuring even coverage, The higher rate will increase the period of protections against aphids.

GRASS SEED
Pest: Grass grub larvae Black beetle adults
Rate: Use 580 mL/100 kg of seed. Mix with sufficient water, usually 10 litres/tonne, and apply to seed ensuring even coverage.

MAIZE, SWEETCORN
Pest: Argentine stem weevil Black beetle
Rate: Use 580 mL/100 kg of seed. Mix with sufficient water (1-2 litres/100 kg of seed) and apply to seed ensuring even coverage. On sweetcorn, transitory phytotoxic effects may occur in some sweetcorn varieties, particularly under dry conditions. These will disappear as the plant matures.

POTATOES
Pest: Aphids
Rate: Use 90 mL/tonne of seed. Mix with sufficient water, usually 2-3 litres and apply to seed tubers ensuring even coverage. If treated tubers are to be kept for later planting, ensure they are thoroughly dry before storing.

PUMPKINS AND WINTER SQUASH
Pest: Aphids Argentine stem weevil Grass grub beetle Lucerne flea Springtails
Rate: Use 50 mL/kg of seed. Mix with sufficient water (1-2 litres/100 kg of seed) and apply to seed ensuring even coverage.

Sombrero 600 Seed Dressing must only be applied through a properly calibrated seed treatment machine to high quality, undamaged seed. As Sombrero 600 Seed Dressing treatment may alter the seed flow rate, calibrate the planter prior to planting with treated seed to ensure that the required plant population is achieved. Sombrero 600 Seed Dressing can be applied to seed previously treated with a fungicide, or can be applied in conjunction with a seed treatment fungicide.

WITHHOLDING PERIOD:
Cereals, forage brassicas, pasture, maize and sweetcorn – 42 days