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SPORTS TURF CONTRACTORS
Weed Control
WEED CONTROL MOVES ON...
Sports Ground Contractors Ltd
D W Clark DRAINAGE LTD
SPECIALIST SPORTSTURF CONSTRUCTION & DRAINAGE CONTRACTORS • Gravel Banding • Sand Slitting
• Top Dressing • Renovation • Irrigation Unit 7, Brailes Industrial Estate, Winderton Lane, Lower Brailes Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 5JW
Tel: 01608 685800 Fax: 01608 685801 email:
jim@dwclarkdrainageltd.co.uk Web:
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SPORTS TURF D CRANE
Construction Golf Courses, Natural/
Artificial Pitches, MUGAs
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erti Draining, Hollow Coring, Scarifying, Koro Field Topmaker, Topdressing, Overseeding, Sand Spreading
ports Fields and Golf Courses
Renovation Koro Field Top Maker, Fibre Sand Installation, Laser Grading, Seeding
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A quiet revolution in weed control technology is beginning, with the introduction of new technology into the UK
sprayers at water volumes of generally 200-500 litres per hectare, which is a very considerable amount of hard work just lifting and carrying 25kg of water and sprayer around. Then we moved on to CDA
F
irst we applied herbicides in water, using knapsack and conventional hydraulic
Framework Directive and, finally, the greatly reduced number of pesticides available, of which by far the most important is glyphosate, probably representing at least 80% of all use on landscape and highways weed control.
sprayers, where volumes of liquid applied are reduced to a more manageable 10-15 litres per hectare, making far more efficient use of labour, but at a
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considerably increased cost in CDA materials. The latest innovation is ULV (Ultra Low Volume) technology, that is designed to apply herbicide neat at just 1-3 litres per hectare, with no water involved at all. Just imagine being able to fill a 500ml container with neat herbicide and then being able to work continually for up to two hours, never having to return to a base vehicle to refill, nor having that heavy burden of water to carry around! Just a 3kg spray lance supported from an elastic shoulder strap. Imagine the labour hours saved each day not having to continually return to a base to re- fill and mix, not to mention the reduced stress and tiredness of an operator working all day. Improved labour productivity is, without doubt, the single most important reason this system scores, as it can recover the whole outlay of a ULV sprayer within just a few weeks in labour savings alone. Several factors are now driving
this move. Economic forces and the dire need to save labour and chemical costs, environmental protection requirements coming from new EU legislation in the form of its Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive and Water
Pesticides Directive requires national plans to reduce pesticide use in general, and especially in public spaces. It is being phased in over the next two years starting November 2011. Pesticide users are required to consider alternatives to spraying, such as sweeping, mulching or hand weeding, to cut down on the amount of pesticide applied and to use targeted spot spraying rather than blanket spraying. The introduction of this new generation equipment, Mankar ULV, will revolutionise the weed control industry in the UK. The key to achieving this breakthrough was the work done to persuade our own Chemical Regulation Directorate (CRD) to allow the neat use of glyphosate (currently only Roundup ProBiactive 450). Other products are in the pipeline. All other product labels currently require pesticides to be applied in minimum volumes of water or CDA carrier.
to the CRD were efficacy, spray drift and potential operator exposure. The Mankar ULV application technology has been well designed to address these problems, which is why it is the leader in this field across Europe and, indeed, worldwide. Its patented technology controls droplet size to eliminate the tiny droplets always present in pressurised hydraulic sprayers but, unlike CDA, it directs the spray
The issues that were of concern The EU’s Sustainable Use of
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