Key Points
- Terbuthylazine (e.g. Gardoprim®) is a selective residual triazine herbicide registered for pre and/or post emergent weed control for crops including lucerne, maize, sorghum and peas.
- Use of the herbicide in Wheat and Barley is undertaken on an off-label basis.
- Growers using this active ingredient in 2006 encountered more crop damage than has been previously noted. At some sites this will be due to cool soil temperatures increasing the residual life of the herbicide.
- FAR trial observations in 2006 illustrated that sowing depth and final sowing depth after consolidation greatly influenced the level of crop damage recorded with terbuthylazine.
- This Arable Extra has been produced as a result of requests for more information on how this herbicide works: its mode of action and its behaviour in the soil.