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DIRECTIONS FOR USE

IMPORTANT: This information is approved as part of the Product Label. All instructions within this section must be read carefully in order to obtain safe and successful use of this product.
Clayton Neutron is a versatile crop safe selective herbicide with contact and residual properties acting by both leaf and root uptake for the control of annual weeds in sugar beet, red beet, fodder beet and mangels. Clayton Neutron is absorbed by the roots of any emerging weeds.

CROP SPECIFIC INFORMATION
Clayton Neutron is recommended for use in all varieties of sugar beet grown on mineral and organic soils and red beet, fodder beet and mangels grown on mineral soils.

TIME OF APPLICATION
Clayton Neutron may be applied either as a pre-emergence application followed by post-emergence applications or as a post-emergence programme.
Pre-emergence of beet followed by post-emergence applications:
Apply the first application of Clayton Neutron at the pre-emergence stage of the crop. Prolonged dry weather after application may reduce effectiveness.
Best results will be obtained on a fine, well consolidated seedbed, free from clods and established weeds. Cloddy or fluffy seedbeds or very dry conditions will reduce activity.
A second application should be applied post-emergence of the crop at the first weed flush, when the weeds are at the expanded cotyledon stage. A further application should be applied when the next flush of weeds germinates. This is usually 10-21 days after the first post-emergence application.
Post-emergence programme:
The first application should be made at the cotyledon stage of the earliest germinating weeds. The size of the beet does not matter provided the crop is not under stress. The treatment should be repeated as each flush of weeds reaches the cotyledon stage until weed germination ceases.
If weeds have survived the previous spray 7-10 days after treatment, another application should be made even if no new weeds have germinated during the period.

RATE OF USE
Pre-emergence of beet followed by post-emergence applications:
On all mineral soils apply Clayton Neutron at 1.65 L/ha in 80-200 litres of water per hectare as an overall preemergence application. This should precede two post-emergence sprays of Clayton Neutron at 1.65 L/ha + Cropspray 11E at 1.65L/ha applied in 80-100 L/ha water.
Alternatively, an application of Clayton Neutron may be used pre-emergence at 2.0 L/ha followed by 2 postemergence applications of Clayton Neutron at 1.5 L/ha + Cropspray 11E at 1.65L/ha.
Post-emergence programme:
An overall programme of three sprays using: Clayton Neutron at 1.65 L/ha + Cropspray 11E at 1.65L/ha in 80- 100 litres of water per hectare. NB. The residual activity of Clayton Neutron is dependent on the cumulative rate of Clayton Neutron applied; therefore, if the full programme of sprays is not used, residual activity and efficacy will be reduced.