MACSPRED EUCMIX PRE PLANT WATER DISPERSIBLE HERBICIDE
MACSPRED PTY LTD
WG
MACSPRED TRIMAC INDUSTRIAL HERBICIDE
MACSPRED PTY LTD
WG
2 PRICE:
$101.2
/kg
3 ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:
Sulfometuron methyl 40g/kg + terbacil 880g/kgFormulation - water dispersible powder.
4 CHEMICAL GROUP: B, C. Herbicide
Sulfonylurea and Uracil group.
5 RELATED HERBICIDES:
Sulfonylureas - Group B.
Arsenal
Imazapyr 250g/L or 750g/kg
Broadstrike
Flumetsulam 800g/kg
Chlorsulfuron
Chlorsulfuron 750g/kg
Eclipse
Metosulam 714g/kg
Express
Tribenuron methyl 750g/kg
Flame
Imazapic 240g/L
Harmony M
Metsulfuron 68g/kg + thifensulfuron 682g/kg
Intervix
Imazamox 33g/L + imazapyr 15g/L
Iodosulfuron 50
Iodosulfuron 50g/kg + mefenpyr
Lightning
Imazapyr 175g/L + imazethapyr 525g/L
Logran 750
Triasulfuron 750g/kg
Londax
Bensulfuron 600g/kg
Mesosulfuron 30
Mesosulfuron 30g/L
Metsulfuron-methyl
Metsulfuron 600g/kg
Monza
Sulfosulfuron 750g/kg
Muster
Ethametsulfuron methyl 750g/kg
OnDuty
Imazapic 525 + Imazapyr 175g/L
Raptor WG 700
Imazamox 700 g/Kg
Sempra
Halosulfuron 750g/kg
Spinnaker
Imazethapyr 700g/kg or 240g/L
Sulfometuron
Sulfometuron 750g/kg
Titus
Rimsulfuron 250g/kg
Uracils - Group C.
Ametryn 500
Ametryn 500g/L
Atrazine 500 Flowable
Atrazine 500g/L
Atrazine 900 Granules
Atrazine 900g/kg
Atrazine plus Simazine
Atrazine 250g/L + simazine 250g/L
Basagran
Bentazone 480g/L
Betanal
Phenmedipham 157g/L
Bromacil 800
Bromacil 800g/kg
Bromoxynil 200
Bromoxynil 200g/L
Chloridazon
Chloridazon 650g/kg
Cyanazine 900
Cyanazine 900g/kg
Diuron 500 Flowable
Diuron 500g/L
Diuron 900 Wettable Granules
Diuron 900g/kg
Forest Mix
Atrazine 620g/kg + hexazinone 210 g/kg
Forest Mix Granules
Atrazine 150g/kg + hexazinone 50 g/kg
Gesagard 500 SC
Prometryn 500g/L
Graslan
Tebuthiuron 200g/kg
Ioxynil
Ioxynil 250g/L
Lexone plus Simazine
Metribuzin + simazine
Lexone plus Tribunil
Metribuzin 140g/kg + Methabenzthiazuron 560g/kg
Linuron 500
Linuron 500g/L or 500g/kg
Metribuzin 750
Metribuzin 750g/kg
Prometryn 900
Prometryn 900g/kg
Propanil
Propanil 360 g/L
Sencor 480
Metribuzin 480g/L
Simazine Flowable 500
Simazine 500g/L
Simazine Granules 900
Simazine 900g/kg
Terbacil 800
Terbacil 800g/kg
Terbutryn 500
Terbutryn 500g/L
Tough
Pyridate 450g/L
Tribunil
Methabenzthiazuron 700g/kg
Velpar
Hexazinone 750g/kg
6 GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
A translocated, residual, non selective, pre and early post emergent herbicide for the control of many weeds before transplanting Eucalypts, in particular Tasmanian Blue Gums (Eucalyptus globulus) and Shining Gums (Eucalyptus nitens). It is of low toxicity to mammals, birds and fish. Its main environmental hazard is transport in water over recently treated areas or drift on the day of spraying. Plants resistant to sulfometuron have developed and are expected after repeated use.
7 APPLICATION METHODS AND TIPS:
Plant healthy seedlings that are at least 20 cm tall, preferably 4 weeks after application.
Best results on bare soil or where weeds have less than 4 leaves and rain follows within a week or two and soil remains moist.
May kill desirable plants if not correctly applied.
Don't use near desirable trees or vegetation.
May cause off site damage after heavy rainfall or runoff.
Don't use within 60 metres of waterways or dams.
Don't use on land with slopes greater than 30 degrees.
Don't use on poorly drained, rocky or gravelly soils or where subsoil exposed.
May cause severe damage as a post planting treatment.
Continuously agitate the spray solution.
8 WEATHER:
Rainfast in 6 hours.
Frost effects: Post emergence activity is less on frost affected plants. Increase risk of crop damage in frosty weather due to slow tree growth.
Wind: Drift may affect adjoining crops. Spray when wind is away from sensitive areas. A 100 m buffer is usually sufficient for a 20 kph wind with medium to coarse droplets.
Inversions: Don't apply in inversion conditions as damaging levels of drift can move kilometre or more.
Temperature: Symptoms are slower to develop under low temperature conditions.
Delta T and relative humidity: Avoid application when Delta T is greater than
9 ADJUVANTS:
Do not use adjuvants or crop injury may occur.
10 WATER QUALITY:
Hard water:
Colloids
pH
Tank life:
11 COMPATIBILITY:
Trace elements.
See HerbiGuide Compatibilities button.
12 EQUIPMENT:
Apply by ground or aircraft.
Recommended Water Volume is 30 - 400 L/ha for boom application. 30-50 L/ha for aerial application.
Flat fan nozzles (110015 to 11003) at 200-300 kPa with 50 mesh filters are a common set up.
13 SPRAYER DECONTAMINATION:
Clean up:
Remove nozzles and filters and clean separately. Triple rinse with soapy water (eg 500 mL or g of Drive, Dynamo, Omo or Surf per 100 L water) or water plus 0.25% wetting agent and run through boom. This procedure is sufficient for spraying in other cereals or non selective applications.
Decontamination:
Remove the nozzles and screens and clean separately and allow to soak in a mixture of 500 mL chlorine bleach per 10 L water for at least 30 minutes.
Rinse sprayer with soapy water (eg 500 mL or g of Drive, Dynamo, Omo or Surf per 100 L water) or water plus 0.25% wetting agent and run through boom. Drain tank and flush with clean water for a minimum of 10 minutes to remove all traces of liquid fertilisers or adjuvants containing ammonia, such as ammonium sulphate or ammonium nitrate, before adding chlorine bleach, because bleach and ammonia will react to release a toxic gas.
Fill tank with clean water and add 300 mL household chlorine (4%) bleach per 100 L water, flush through hoses and boom then stand for 15 minutes with agitation engaged, repeat. Rinse tank, hoses and boom thoroughly with clean water to remove traces of bleach.
Rinse screens and nozzles and replace.
14 HERBICIDE RESISTANCE:
Resistant populations of weeds occur. Repeated application may lead to the development of tolerance to the herbicide
15 REPLANTING INTERVALS:
Crop
Time
Most broadacre crops
12 months or more depending on rate.
Eucalypts
3 months.
16 WITHHOLDING PERIODS:
Crop
Type
Time
All
Harvest
None specified
All
Grazing
None specified
Don't graze after spraying.
17 RE-ENTRY PERIOD:
Wear protective clothing if in contact with plants before the spray has dried.
18 PROTECTIVE CLOTHING:
When handling concentrate use face shield or goggles, cotton overalls, washable hat, PVC gloves, chemical resistant boots.
19 SOIL:
Longer residual on high pH alkaline soils.
More likely to leach and cause crop damage on soils with low clay and organic mater contents.
Don't use on gravelly or rocky soils or those with exposed subsoil.
Moisture required for herbicide action.
Ineffective on dry soils.
Reduced weed control and may be crop damage on waterlogged soils.
20 MODE OF ACTION:
Sulfonylurea component Inhibits the ALS enzyme. Uracil component inhibits photosynthesis at photosystem II.
Most of the product is absorbed by the roots because it is applied as a granule. Absorption by roots from the soil solution is not as efficient as leaf absorption by formulations that sprayed, but this is compensated for by better movement up to the leaves. Within the plant, sulfometuron stops cell division very quickly by its action on the ALS enzyme. Degradation products are non toxic and herbicidally inactive. Secondary effects on photosynthesis, respiration and ethylene production produce the symptoms of yellowing and reddening of grasses and leaf drop in broad-leaved weeds.
Species tolerant to sulfometuron such as the Bermuda grass (couch) degrade it more quickly than do sensitive plants. Herbicide resistance appears to be due to plants with a less sensitive ALS enzyme.
It does not normally affect seed germination.
Uptake and translocation:
Absorbed by roots and leaves.
Physiological effects:
Residual Life and Breakdown:
21 SELECTIVITY:
Crop tolerance:
May damage small or stressed transplanted trees.
The tolerance of crops or trees to sulfometuron is reduced in soils with high pH, sandy soils, soils with marginal zinc, manganese or copper levels and if leaching rains occur soon after spraying.
On areas where sulfometuron has induced trace element deficiencies the following may reduce losses;
1 kg zinc sulphate plus
1 kg copper sulphate (or 0.5 kg copper oxychloride) plus
4 kg manganese sulphate (or 6 L Mangasol) plus
250 mL wetting agent in 100 L/ha of water applied in the cool of the day or at night.
5-7 days later spray a mix of 30 kg Urea in 100 L/ha water in the cool of the day. Pre mix urea in water to prevent freezing in the spray tank.
Varietal sensitivities:
Effect on Clover Species:
Kills clover.
Effect on Medic Species:
Kills medics.
Effect on Lucerne:
Kills or severely damages lucerne
Effect on Native Plants:
Eucalypts are reasonably tolerant. Low levels of run off not expected to cause significant problems. Water flowing from treated areas can cause significant damage along the water courses.
22 DISEASE AND INSECT EFFECTS:
23 PLANT SYMPTOMS:
Growth stops soon after application. About a week later plants will start to yellow or redden. In broad-leaved weeds this may be an intervenal yellowing. Annual weeds are usually dead within 4 weeks of spraying. Under cold and wet conditions they may remain alive as severely stunted plants with few roots and die from water stress in spring. Sulfometuron and terbacil has little effect on germination and weeds may emerge and grow for a week or two before dying.
SECONDARY EFFECTS:
Summary:
Low toxicity to mammals, birds, bees and invertebrates. Toxic to algae.
Skin: Mild to not irritating (Guinea pig). Not a skin sensitizer.
Eye: minimal to mildly irritating and reversible.
Vapour inhalation LC50: >5.3 mg/L air for rats for 4 hours. Low toxicity.
Chronic oral toxicity NOEL: 50 ppm for two years in rats, 200 ppm in dog. Low toxicity.
Not carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic in animal studies (i.e. does not cause cancer). At very high doses of 5000 ppm reduced fecundity has been observed and some maternal deaths.
Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI):
Other Species:
Birds: Practically non toxic.
Acute dietary LC50 >5000 ppm for mallard ducks and bobwhite quail for sulfometuron methyl.
8 day dietary LC50 >5000 ppm.
Fish: low toxicity.
LC50 >12.5 ppm, sulfometuron.
96 hr LC50 >148 mg/L for rainbow trout and bluegill sunfish, sulfometuron.
Invertebrates: low toxicity.
48 hr NOEC >150 mg/L for sulfometuron, Daphnia magna.
Bees: Practically non toxic. LD50 >12.5 ug/bee, sulfometuron.
Arthropods: toxicity.
Earthworms:
Algae:
Terbacil
Details:
Poison schedule: Not a scheduled poison.
Mammalian toxicity: Moderate.
Acute oral LD50: 934 mg/kg (female rat, terbacil), 1255 mg/kg (male rat, terbacil) [For comparison table salt is 3000 mg/kg]
Acute dermal LD50: > 5000 mg/kg (rabbit).
Skin: Not irritating. Not sensitising (Guinea pig)
Eye: Mild reversible irritant (rabbit)
Vapour inhalation: LC50 > 5.3 mg/L air (rat). Low toxicity.
Chronic oral toxicity: NOEL 50 mg/kg for two years.
Not carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic in animal studies (i.e. does not cause cancer or reproductive problems).
Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI):
Other Species:
Birds: Low toxicity.
Oral LC50 >715 mg/kg for bobwhite quail, terbacil
Oral LC50 >5000 mg/kg for mallard duck, terbacil
Fish: Moderate toxicity
96 hr LC50 >46.2 mg/L for rainbow trout, terbacil.
96 hr LC50 >102.9 mg/kg for bluegill sunfish, terbacil.
Invertebrates: Moderate toxicity.
48 hr LC50 68 mg/L for terbacil, Daphnia.
Bees: Low toxicity.
Arthropods: toxicity.
Earthworms:
Algae: Very toxic.
96 hr EC50 = 0.03 mg/L for terbacil, green algae.
25 TOXICITY SYMPTOMS:
Single doses of sulfometuron do not usually evoke any symptoms in animals.
Repeated high doses may lead to red blood cell destruction and other effects.
May cause eye irritation, discomfort, tearing or blurred vision.
Overexposure on skin may cause a rash.
26 FIRST AID: for Oral Intake:
Contact a doctor or Poisons Information Centre on 13 11 26.
If Swallowed - Contact a doctor.
If on Skin - Wash skin thoroughly with soap and water.
If in Eyes - Flush with water for 15 minutes. Seek medical attention.
If Inhaled - Remove patient from contaminated area to fresh air.
Advice to doctor - Treat symptomatically. No antidote known.
27 ENVIRONMENTAL FATE:
Sulfometuron
Half life in soil: Sulfometuron has a half life in soil of about 12 months. Its half life is much longer in soils with high pH. At a soil pH of less than 7 it is broken down by hydrolysis and microbial degradation. At a pH of more than 8 there is little hydrolysis and only microbial breakdown. Breakdown is most rapid in warm, moist, acid and light textured soils with a high organic level.
Half life in water: 18 days at pH5 and 25 C. 1.8 days at pH5 and 35 C. 20 days at Little is naturally degraded due to exposure to sunlight and volatilisation.
On the EPA classification of mobility in the soil it ranges from low mobility to mobile depending on the soil type. Mobility usually increases with increasing soil pH and decreasing organic matter.
Ground water contamination:
Accumulation in milk and tissues: Sulfometuron does not accumulate in the milk or tissues of animals. Most is excreted intact in the urine of monogastric animals or as a conjugate in ruminants.
pH stability: More stable at higher pH.
Photolysis rate: Low.
Hydrolysis half life: Depends on pH. It is shorter at low pH and high temperatures.
Biodegradation rate: Slow.
Terbacil
Do not use near desirable vegetation.
Half life in soil: Months
Half life in water: days at pH5 and 35 C.
It has an EPA classification for soil mobility that ranges from
Ground water contamination
Accumulation in milk and tissues.
pH stability:
Photolysis rate:
Hydrolysis half life:
Biodegradation rate:
28 REGISTERED CROPS:
See HerbiGuide Species Solution tab.
29 REGISTERED WEEDS:
See HerbiGuide Species Solution tab.
30 REGULATION AND LEGAL:
UN number: None allocated.
CAS numbers: Sulfometuron 74222-97-2. Terbacil 5902-51-2.
Hazchem code: None allocated.
NOHSC classification: Not hazardous. No risk or safety phrases.
Land transport:
Dangerous goods class: Not a dangerous good. No special transport requirements.
Sea transport:
No special transport requirements.
Proper shipping name:
Class:
Packaging group:
EPG:
31 PROPERTIES:
Colour: White.
Odour: Odourless.
Form: Solid granules, dry flowable.
Empirical formula:
Water solubility at 25 C. - 8 ppm at pH 5; 70 ppm at pH 7. Disperses in water.
Oil solubility:
Octanol:Water ratio at 25 C. - 15 at pH 5; 0.31 at pH 7 for sulfometuron.
LogPow 1.91 for terbacil.
Soil organic carbon absorption coefficient (Koc):
Vapour Pressure at 25 C. - Very low. 5.5 x 10-16 for sulfometuron.
Dissociation constant - 5.2 pKa (sulfometuron)
Melting point - 203 - 205 C for sulfometuron methyl.
Boiling point: C.
Molecular weight - 364.39
Bulk density: 1.3 g/cm3 for product
Specific gravity:
pH 8 at 35 C (sulfometuron). Similar acidity to vinegar or acetic acid.
Flammability: Not flammable.
Flammable limit in air: LEL = g/L. Not normally an explosion hazard but dust may form an explosive mixture with air.
Flashpoint: C
Autoignition: C
Shelf Life: 5 years.
(When Stored under Ideal Conditions)
32 SPILLS:
Sweep up spilt material.
33 FIRE:
Extinguish with water spray, foam, carbon dioxide or dry agent.
Fine dust in air may explode if exposed to a high temperature ignition source.
Prevent contaminated water reaching desirable vegetation.
34 COMMENTS:
33 REFERENCES:
Ashton, F.M. and Crafts, A.S. (1981) Mode of Action of Herbicides. (Wiley-Interscience publication).
Kearney, P.C. and Kaufman, D.D. (1976). Herbicides. Chemistry, degradation and mode of action. Vol 1 & 2.
Acknowledgments:
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