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Ontario, Canada.

What is best to use?

6/16/2004 3:44:40 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

What is the goal?

Some adjuvants are geared toward drift control.

Most intend to make water wetter. Like soap.

Herbicides do well with methylated seed or crop oils & non-ionic surfactants.

Insecticides, Miticides, & Fungicides (such as we want) do OK with the classic 70/30 non-ionic surfactants. These are really cheap insurance.

The cream of the crop (especially for fungicides & miticdes) are the new Organosilicone surfactants. Helena's Silwet 77 is the former king. The current chaml is our own (Lesco) Hawkeye.

As surfactant technology continues to advance, plant safety increases. Additionally, the percent control (efficacy or results) we get from even very low impact pesticides improves as well. This because safer materials are made to bond to & penetrate deeper into the targeted plant with fewer skips & misses. Likewise fewer "hot spots" at leaf edges.

Lower toxicity to us, reduced colateral non target damage, increased plant safety, & better results. Cool stuff.

6/16/2004 6:29:58 PM

Ontario, Canada.

Thanks Steve. I was looking for something for contact fungicides and knockdown insecticides.

6/17/2004 8:06:20 PM