News & Articles By Michelle Simmons
Fenvalerate is a contact and systemic insecticide that belongs to the group of pyrethroid chemicals. It is used to fight off many insects, such as those that belong to the families of Lepidoptera, Diptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, and Coleoptera, blackfly, mosquitoes, and termites on cotton, soybeans, fruits such as apples, pears, peaches, and grapes, vegetables, and […]
Ethofumesate is a pre- and post-emergence herbicide for fighting off grass weeds and broad-leaved weeds, such as black nightshade, chickweed, lambsquarters, purslane, pigweed, thistles, annual bluegrass, foxtails, volunteer cereals, and white grass. It can be applied on different crops, such as sugarbeet, red beet, fodder beet, onions, garlic, shallots, carrots, grass seed crops, and oilseed […]
Ethion is an insecticide that belongs to the organophosphate chemical group. It is used as a tool to control insects, such as aphids, mites, scales, thrips, leafhoppers, maggots and foliar feeding larvae, on citrus tress, cotton, fruit and nut trees, and some vegetables. In addition, it is used on lawns and turf grasses, but not […]
Ethephon is an organophosphate chemical. It is a plant growth regulator that is used to speed up the process of fruit ripening, abscission, and flower induction. It is registered in the U.S. for applications on plants including apples, barley, blackberries, bromeliads, cantaloupes, cherries, coffee, cotton, cucumbers, grapes, guava, macadamia nuts, ornamentals, peppers, pineapples, rye, squash, […]
MCPB is a phenoxy herbicide produced as a sodium salt and an acid. It is used to control Canadian thistle, buttercup, mustard, purslane, ragweed, common lambsquarters, pigweed, smartweed, sowthistle, morning glory, and other broad leaf weeds on newly sown pastures, clover seed crops, green and dry peas, and cereals undersown with ryegrass or clover. It […]
