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H - 65190
™ ®
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. PER
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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
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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 Use this product only in accordance with its labeling and cultural, and genetic practices aimed at preventing economic with the Worker Protection Standard, 40 CFR part 170. pest damage. IPM principles and practices include field This Standard contains requirements for the protection of scouting or other detection
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NOTE: Severe alfalfa injury may result following 2/3 - 1 1/3 Lb/Acre application, if after cutting the regrowth is more than 2 Bluegrass, annual Poa annua inches high, or there is significant stubble left after cutting Brome, downy (cheatgrass) Bromus tectorum or grazing, or the air temperature is above 90 °F. Buckwheat, wild Polygonum convolvulus Catchfly, English Silene gallica DORMANT VARIETIES Chamomile, mayweed (dogfennel) Anthemis cotula Chickweed, common Stellaria media Make a single appl
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SPRINKLER CHEMIGATION CHEMIGATION The system must contain a functional check valve, vacuum ALFALFA relief valve, and low pressure drain appropriately located on Apply this product only through center pivot sprinkler the irrigation pipeline to prevent water source contamination irrigation systems. Do not apply this product through any from backflow. other type of irrigation system. The pesticide injection pipeline must contain a functional, Crop injury, lack of effectiveness, or illegal pestici
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• Do not permit run-off during chemigation. FLOOD IRRIGATED ALFALFA POSTING OF AREAS TO BE TREATED In arid climates (10 inches of rainfall or less per year) or areas Posting of areas to be chemigated is required when 1) any where drought conditions have prevailed for one or more part of a treated area is within 300 feet of sensitive areas years, a field bioassay should be completed prior to planting such as residential areas, labor camps, businesses, daycare any desired crop. The results of this
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Rate Chart for Impregnating Fertilizer with DuPont™ below the crown) throughout the field and the crop is VELPAR® DF healthy, vigorous, and not under stress from weather Fertilizer VELPAR® DF Rate Per Acre conditions, low fertility, insects or disease damage. Rate/Acre 2/3 Lbs 1 Lbs 1 1/3 Lbs 2 Lbs –In areas with shorter growing seasons, such as, higher 250 lbs 5.3 lbs/ton 8.0 lbs/ton 10.6 lbs/ton 16.0 lbs/ton elevations, adequate alfalfa tap root growth may not occur 300 lbs 4.4 lbs/ton 6.6 lb
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USE PRECAUTIONS LOW BUSH BLUEBERRIES less than or greater than • Do not apply through any type of irrigation system. equal to 3% 3% organic • Do not apply within 90 days of harvest. Soil texture organic matter matter Coarse • Do not apply to flooded field with standing water. loamy sand, 1.2 1.6 • Application to blueberry foliage will result in crop injury. sandy loam (50-85% sand) • Since the effect of DuPont™ VELPAR® DF on Medium blueberries varies with soil type, plant vigor, uniformity loa
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WEEDS CONTROLLED CHRISTMAS TREES DuPont™ VELPAR® DF is recommended for the control or suppression of the following species in high and low bush VELPAR® DF is recommended for control of certain weeds blueberry crops: where the following species are grown: Aster, heath* Aster ericoides Fir, Douglas (western US only) Pseudotsuga menziesii Barnyardgrass Echinochloa crus-galli Fir, Fraser Abies fraseri Blackberry* (briar) Rubus spp Fir, grand Abies grandis Bluegrass, Fir, noble Abies procera Kentucky
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First year plantings - Transplant stock that is 2 years old or –Applications to soils high in organic matter (greater more (1 year old for loblolly pine). Apply DuPont™ than 5%). VELPAR® DF only if rainfall has settled the soil around the • Injury may occur when VELPAR® DF is used on the base and root systems of the transplants. following: Established trees - Trees that have been planted in the –Trees that show poor vigor, insect damage, disease, winter plantation for 1 year or more. injury, or
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For preemergence use only, VELPAR® DF may be applied with WEEDS CONTROLLED aerial equipment using at least 10 gallons of spray per acre. DuPont™ VELPAR® DF is recommended for the control or For spot treatments of emerged weeds, VELPAR® DF may be suppression of the following species in pineapple crops: applied with a knapsack sprayer in concentrations of 0.6 - 4.8 pounds per 100 gallons of water. Apply a sufficient Ageratum, tropic Ageratum conycoides Balsamapple Momordica charantia volume to th
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Use the following rates according to the different soil textures: USE PRECAUTIONS - SUGARCANE DuPont™ VELPAR® DF (Lb/Acre) • Do not plant any crop other than sugarcane following an Soils Preemergence + Layby application of VELPAR® DF. Coarse Texture* • Do not feed sugarcane forage to livestock. Sandy loam 1/3 1/3 • Do not apply VELPAR® DF: Medium Texture - Within 180 days of harvest in Hawaii. Loam, silt loam 9/10 9/10 - Within 234 days of harvest in Louisiana. Fine Texture - Within 288 days of
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APPLICATION INFORMATION PLANTS CONTROLLED EASTERN US VELPAR® DF is recommended for the control or suppression of the following species in site preparations for Apply DuPont™ VELPAR® DF from early spring to early forestry crops: summer after hardwoods have broken bud and before the foliage has hardened off. HERBACEOUS PLANTS VELPAR® DF (Lb/Acre) Soils Eastern US Asters Aster, heath* Aster ericoides Coarse Texture Barnyardgrass Echinochloa crus-galli Sand, loamy sand, Bentgrass Agrostis spp sandy
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vegetation only after any residual stand is completely For multi-stemmed and low-growing brush that have stem defoliated, at least twice, allowing for sufficient root uptake of diameters that are difficult to determine, apply the DuPont™ VELPAR® DF. In the West, results may take one to VELPAR® DF suspension at the rate of 2 to 4 ml per 3 feet two years in areas of low rainfall. of canopy width. For tall, slender (columnar) brush types, apply 4 to 8 ml per 3 feet of height. Base the rate on SPR
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VELPAR® DF APPLICATION INFORMATION Soil Description (Lb/Acre) EASTERN US Loamy sand, sandy loam 1 1/3 - 3 Apply DuPont™ VELPAR® DF from early spring to early summer after hardwoods have broken bud and before full Loam, silt loam, leaf expansion. sandy clay loam 2 2/3 - 4 Applications made over the top of pines may result in Silt, silty clay loam, excessive pine injury under conditions of high humidity and clay loam, temperature (80 degrees F). sandy clay, silty clay, clay 3 - 4 WESTERN US Rainb
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GRID APPLICATION USE PRECAUTIONS Mix 2 2/3 pounds of DuPont™ VELPAR® DF with sufficient RELEASE - GRID & SINGLE STEM water to make one gallon of suspension and thoroughly agitate. • Application of VELPAR® DF spots closer than 36 inches to Intermittent agitation may be required to maintain the conifer seedlings in their first season or directly up slope from VELPAR® DF in suspension. these seedlings may result in injury or mortality. Apply the VELPAR® DF suspension directly to the soil surface •
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EASTERN US FORESTRY DuPont™ VELPAR® DF (Lb/Acre) IMPREGNATION ON DRY BULK First Year Established FERTILIZER Soil Description Plantings Trees VELPAR® DF is recommended for impregnating or coating Loamy sand, 1 1/3 1 1/3 - 1 2/3 dry bulk fertilizer to be applied on forested sites for the sandy loam(50-85% sand) establishment or release of conifer plantations (except longleaf pine) as specified on this label. Loam, silt loam, silt, 1 1/3 - 1 1/2 1 2/3 - 2 1/3 sandy clay loam PLANTS CONTROLLED Silt
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drift and associated injury may be aggravated by high –On gravelly or rocky soils, exposed subsoils, clay knobs, wind conditions. sand, or sandy soil with 85% or more sand. • The dry fertilizer must be properly impregnated and • Do not cut treated vegetation for forage or hay nor graze uniformly applied to avoid pine injury/mortality and poor domestic animals on treated areas for 60 days following weed and brush control. application. • Uniform and precise application of the impregnated YELLOW PO
