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H - 64953
™ ®
DuPont Velpar DF
herbicide
®
“......... A Growing Partnership With Nature”
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Active Ingredient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Precautionary Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Environmental Conditions and Biological Activity. . 2 Application Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Tank Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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™ DuPont ® Velpar DF herbicide Dispersible Granules Active Ingredient By Weight Hexazinone [3-cyclohexyl-6-(dimethylamino) -1-methyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione] 75% Inert Ingredients 25% PRECAUTIONARY STATEMENTS TOTAL 100% HAZARDS TO HUMANS AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS EPA Reg. No. 352-581 DANGER! CAUSES EYE DAMAGE. Corrosive, causes irreversible eye damage. Harmful if swallowed. Do not get in eyes or on clothing. Avoid contact with skin. Wash thoroughly with soap and water after handling. PERSON
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•Weed spectrum and size at time of application GENERAL INFORMATION • Environmental conditions at and following treatment Where a rate range is shown, use the higher levels of the dosage DuPont™ VELPAR® DF herbicide is a water-dispersible range on hard-to-control species, fine-textured soils, or soils granule that is mixed in water and applied as a spray for containing greater than 5% organic matter or carbon. Use the weed control in certain crops, Christmas trees, forestry site lower levels of t
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INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT AGRICULTURAL USES This product may be used as part of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program that can include biological, AGRICULTURAL USE REQUIREMENTS cultural, and genetic practices aimed at preventing Use this product only in accordance with its labeling and economic pest damage. IPM principles and practices with the Worker Protection Standard, 40 CFR part 170. include field scouting or other detection methods, correct This Standard contains requirements for t
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NOTE: Severe alfalfa injury may result following 2/3 - 1 1/3 Lb/Acre application after cutting if either the regrowth is more than 2 Bluegrass, annual Poa annua inches high, significant stubble is left after alfalfa cutting, or Brome, downy (cheatgrass) Bromus tectorum the air temperature is above 90 °F. Buckwheat, wild Polygonum convolvulus Catchfly, English Silene gallica DORMANT VARIETIES Chamomile, mayweed (dogfennel) Anthemis cotula Make a single application after alfalfa becomes dormant an
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pressure switch which will stop the water pump motor when CHEMIGATION the water pressure decreases to the point where pesticide ALFALFA distribution is adversely affected. Apply this product only through center pivot sprinkler Systems must use a metering pump, such as a positive irrigation systems. Do not apply this product through any displacement injection pump (e.g., diaphragm pump) other type of irrigation system. effectively designed and constructed of materials that are Crop injury, lack
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• The printed side of the sign should face away from the If fertilizer materials are excessively dusty, use a suitable treated area towards the sensitive area. The signs shall be additive to reduce dust prior to impregnation, as dusty fertilizer printed in English. Signs must be posted prior to will result in poor distribution during application. The dry application and must remain posted until foliage has dried fertilizer must be properly impregnated and uniformly applied to and soil surface
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• Do not use VELPAR® DF in low desert valleys in USE PRECAUTIONS - ALFALFA California or Arizona. • Best results are obtained when 1/2–1 inches of rainfall or • Do not add a surfactant to VELPAR® DF when treating sprinkler irrigation occurs within two weeks after nondormant alfalfa. application, when soil is moist at time of application, and when weeds have not germinated or are less than 2 inches in • Do not use VELPAR® DF on gravelly or rocky soils, height or diameter. Heavy rainfall or excess
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APPLICATION INFORMATION WEEDS CONTROLLED DuPont™ VELPAR® DF may only be applied to pruned VELPAR® DF is recommended for the control or blueberry fields in the spring before leaf emergence. Using suppression of the following species in high and low bush calibrated ground spray equipment, make the application in blueberry crops: sufficient water to provide thorough and uniform coverage to the treated area (usually 20 gallons per acre). Shut off Aster, heath* Aster ericoides Barnyardgrass Echinochl
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First year plantings - Transplant stock that is 2 years old or CHRISTMAS TREES more (1 year old for loblolly pine). Apply VELPAR® DF only if rainfall has settled the soil around the base and root DuPont™ VELPAR® DF is recommended for control of systems of the transplants. certain weeds where the following species are grown: Established trees - Trees that have been planted in the plantation for 1 year or more. Fir, Douglas (western US only) Pseudotsuga menziesii Fir, Fraser Abies fraseri WEEDS C
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–Applications to soils high in organic matter (greater WEEDS CONTROLLED than 5%). VELPAR® DF is recommended for the control or • Injury may occur when DuPont™ VELPAR® DF is used suppression of the following species in pineapple crops: on the following: Ageratum, tropic Ageratum conycoides –Trees that show poor vigor, insect damage, disease, winter Balsamapple Momordica charantia injury, or other stress conditions. Castorbean Ricinus communis Crabgrass Digitaria spp –Any soil containing less than
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For preemergence use only, DuPont™ VELPAR® DF may be Use the following rates according to the different soil textures: applied with aerial equipment using at least 10 gallons of spray VELPAR® DF (Lb/Acre) Soils Preemergence + Layby per acre. Coarse Texture* For spot treatments of emerged weeds, VELPAR® DF may be Sandy loam 1/3 1/3 applied with a knapsack sprayer in concentrations of Medium Texture 0.6 - 4.8 pounds per 100 gallons of water. Apply a sufficient volume to thoroughly wet weed foliag
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USE PRECAUTIONS - SUGARCANE APPLICATION INFORMATION • Do not plant any crop other than sugarcane following an EASTERN US application of DuPont™ VELPAR® DF. Apply VELPAR® DF from early spring to early summer • Do not feed sugarcane forage to livestock. after hardwoods have broken bud and before the foliage has • Do not apply VELPAR® DF: hardened off. -Within 180 days of harvest in Hawaii. VELPAR® DF (Lb/Acre) -Within 234 days of harvest in Louisiana. Soils Eastern US -Within 288 days of harvest
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vegetation only after any residual stand is completely PLANTS CONTROLLED defoliated, at least twice, allowing for sufficient root uptake of DuPont™ VELPAR® DF is recommended for the control or VELPAR® DF. In the West, results may take one to two years suppression of the following species in site preparations for in areas of low rainfall. forestry crops: SPRAY EQUIPMENT HERBACEOUS PLANTS When applied as a liquid spray using water as the carrier, Asters VELPAR® DF may be applied by ground equipmen
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For multi-stemmed and low-growing brush that have stem APPLICATION INFORMATION diameters that are difficult to determine, apply the EASTERN US DuPont™ VELPAR® DF suspension at the rate of 2 to 4 ml Apply VELPAR® DF from early spring to early summer per 3 feet of canopy width. For tall, slender (columnar) after hardwoods have broken bud and before full leaf brush types, apply 4 to 8 ml per 3 feet of height. Base the expansion. rate on whichever canopy dimension is greater (width or height). App
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DuPont™ VELPAR® DF GRID APPLICATION Soil Description (Lb/Acre) Mix 2 2/3 pounds of VELPAR® DF with sufficient water to Loamy sand, make one gallon of suspension and thoroughly agitate. sandy loam 1 1/3 - 3 Intermittent agitation may be required to maintain the Loam, VELPAR® DF in suspension. silt loam, sandy clay loam 2 2/3 - 4 Apply the VELPAR® DF suspension directly to the soil surface in a grid pattern using an exact delivery handgun applicator. Silt, silty clay loam, clay loam, This equipm
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EASTERN US USE PRECAUTIONS VELPAR® DF (Lb/Acre) RELEASE - GRID & SINGLE STEM First Year Established • Application of DuPont™ VELPAR® DF spots closer than 36 Soil Description Plantings Trees inches to conifer seedlings in their first season or directly up slope from these seedlings may result in injury or mortality. Loamy sand, 1 1/3 1 1/3 - 1 2/3 sandy loam(50-85% sand) • Use VELPAR® DF on seedlings in their first or fourth year and older. Injury may result from use on two and three year Loam, s
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drift and associated injury may be aggravated by high FORESTRY wind conditions. IMPREGNATION ON DRY BULK • The dry fertilizer must be properly impregnated and FERTILIZER uniformly applied to avoid pine injury/mortality and poor DuPont™ VELPAR® DF is recommended for impregnating weed and brush control. or coating dry bulk fertilizer to be applied on forested sites • Uniform and precise application of the impregnated for the establishment or release of conifer plantations fertilizer is essential f
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–On gravelly or rocky soils, exposed subsoils, clay knobs, APPLICATION INFORMATION sand, or sandy soil with 85% or more sand. Make a single application of VELPAR® DF per year when • Do not cut treated vegetation for forage or hay nor graze weeds are actively growing. domestic animals on treated areas for 60 days following WEEDS CONTROLLED - USE RATES application. VELPAR® DF effectively controls the following weeds at the YELLOW POPLAR PLANTINGS rates shown in pastures. Use a lower rate on coarse
