Interfarm UK Ltd will be marketing the broad-leaved weed sulfonylurea herbicide, Finy, in the UK. Based on the active ingredient metsulfuron-methyl and formulated as the latest WDG formulation, Finy is a contact and residual acting, post-emergence herbicide offering excellent control of a wide range of broad-leaved weeds. It is recommended on all varieties of winter wheat, spring wheat, winter barley, spring barley, winter oats, spring oats, triticale, linseed and on green cover on land not being used for crop production.
"Manufactured in the EU, Finy is a genuine high-tech formulation, with qualities as good as any modern metsulfuron product. It is designed to be the backbone of most spring applied herbicide programmes in cereals, controlling a number of important weeds such as charlock, chickweed, docks, common hempnettle, mayweed, redshank and shepherd’s purse up to 15 cms across or high, crane’s-bill, red deadnettle, speedwells, fools’ parsley, small nettle, poppy and volunteer rape up to 6 expanded true leaves and fat-hen, forget-me-knot and knotgrass up to 2 expanded leaves," explains Dr. David Stormonth, Technical Manager, Interfarm (UK) Ltd.
"It has a number of useful tank mixes in wheat and barley, including fluroxypyr, clodinafop, fenoxaprop, many fungicides, growth regulators and trace elements," he concludes.
Finy contains 200 g/kg metsulfuron-methyl formulated as a water soluble granule (WDG). It is approved for use in winter wheat, spring wheat, winter barley, spring barley, oats, triticale, linseed and set-aside. It is recommended at a dose rate of 30 gms/ha, with one application per crop. It can be applied from the 1st February onwards. In wheat and oats it can be applied from two leaves to flag leaf emerged and in barley and triticale from three leaves to flag leaf emerged. In linseed it is applied from the first pair of true leaves unfolded up to 30 cms high or before flower buds visible. Finy is subject to LERAP B. It is packed in a 60 g pack, treating 2 hectares.
For further comment and information, please contact Dr. David Stormonth, Technical Manager, Interfarm UK Ltd. on 01354 741414 or 07818 036506 (mobile) or via e-mail david.stormonth@interfarm.co.uk