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A herbicide for the control of annual grass and broad-leaved weeds in forage maize: an oil dispersion formulation containing 40 g/L (4.2% w/w) nicosulfuron.
Active Ingredient(s): 40 g/L (4.2% w/w) nicosulfuron.

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.
 
RESTRICTIONS:
Do not treat with NICO PRO 4 SC once a soil insecticide based on an organophosphate has been applied.
Do not mix with foliar or liquid fertilisers.
NICO PRO 4 SC can be used post-emergence at the recommended rate to directly target specific weed species. Choose the correct dose for the weeds present. As part of a weed resistance management plan NICO PRO 4 SC must be used in sequence with herbicides with other modes of action that are active against the same weeds, particularly in continuous maize.
How to best use this product, your local technical representative should be contacted.
Under certain conditions, some transient yellowing and/or crop stunting and/or loss of vigour can be seen from 1 to 2 weeks after treatment (2 – 8 leaves of maize). This is quickly outgrown and no yield effect has been shown.
Some flower deformation may be seen on particularly sensitive varieties e.g. Rival.
Applications should not be made to maize crops that are under stress, as this may lead to incidences of more persistent crop damage, such as loss of vigour, particularly when poorer growing conditions follow treatment. This may cause loss of yield. Take care to ensure that products are evenly applied at the recommended dose to a healthy crop.
 Due to its high level of activity, care must be taken to avoid damage by spray drift onto plants outside the target area.
 
RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT
This product contains nicosulfuron which is an ALS inhibitor, also classified by the Herbicide Resistance Action Committee as ‘Group B’. Use only as part of a resistance management strategy that includes cultural methods of control and does not use ALS inhibitors as the sole chemical method of grass-weed control. Avoid the use of NICO PRO 4 SC, or any other ALS inhibitor herbicide, as a sole means of grass and broad-leaved weed control in successive crops. Strains of some annual weeds (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.
 
CROP SPECIFIC INFORMATION
Timing and Rates of Use:
Control of Annual Grasses:
Use: Apply 1.0 L/ha in 200 L/ha of water at 2-8 leaf stage of the crop, 2 leaves to early tillering of the weed.
 
Control of Broad-leaved Weeds:
Use: Apply at 1.0 L/ha in 200 L/ha of water at 2-8 leaf stage of the crop, 2 to 6 leaves of the weeds. (In order to give maximum control the weeds must be growing well and not under any form of stress).
 
FOLLOWING CROPS
It is recommended to plant only cereals or maize as following crops. Winter wheat can be drilled 4 months after application of 1.0 L/ha of NICO PRO 4 SC, maize can be sown the following spring and all other crops from the following autumn onwards. In case wheat is the following crop, it should not be undersown.
 
MIXING AND SPRAYING
Preparation of the spray solution
Shake thoroughly the NICO PRO 4 SC container. Half fill the spray tank with clean water and begin agitation. Add the required quantity of NICO PRO 4 SC to the tank and complete filling. Continue agitation until spraying is completed.
 
Application
NICO PRO 4 SC must be applied using equipment which gives a good coverage of weeds (we recommend a Spray Quality “MEDIUM” as defined by BCPC and corresponding to a mean droplet size of 225 microns). Do not spray NICO PRO 4 SC if any rainfall is expected in the next 6 hours. NICO PRO 4 SC contains a sulfonylurea herbicide and it must not be applied in mixture or sequence with other sulfonylurea herbicides.
Tank cleaning procedure
Clean applicator thoroughly after using the following method:
1. Drain tank completely then flush tank, boom and hoses with clean water. Drain again.
2. Half fill the tank with clean water and add an ammonia based solution (All Clear Extra - 1L/200L water). Flush through boom and hoses and then allow to stand for 10 minutes with agitation. Drain completely.
3. To remove traces of detergent, rinse the tank with clean water and flush through booms and hoses.
4. Repeat step 2.
5. Nozzles and filters must be removed and cleaned separately with the detergent solution at the same concentration as above.
6. Any contamination on the outside of the spraying equipment should be removed by washing with clean water.
 
SOIL CONDITIONS
NICO PRO 4 SC can be used on all soils (light, medium and heavy soils) and is unaffected by high organic matter.
 
STORAGE
Store the container at room or cool temperatures. ISK Biosciences Europe SA, as the Seller, shall be under no liability (except for liability for death or personal injury resulting from the negligence of the Seller) whether in contract or in tort for or in respect of any loss or damage resulting from an arising out of the mixing or sequential use, of the goods with any other goods (whether the Seller or any third-party) otherwise than in accordance with the Seller’s Recommendations for Use, or resulting from or arising out of the use of the goods in or before abnormal weather conditions or in unusual soil conditions notwithstanding that such conditions may be known or may have been known to the Seller to be abnormally susceptible to damage by the goods.