Trifluralin

Action:

Pre-emergence Selective Herbicide

Mode of Action:

Trifluralin is a dinitroaniline herbicide. It is used for Pre-emergence control of many annual grasses and broad-leaved weeds in brassicas, beans, peas, carrots, parsnips, lettuce, capsicums, tomatoes, artichokes, onions, garlic, vines, strawberries, raspberries, citrus fruit, oilseed rape, peanuts, soya beans, sunflowers, safflowers, ornamentals, cotton, sugar beet, sugar cane, and in forestry. Used with linuron for control of annual grasses and broad-leaved weeds in winter cereals.

Chemical group:

Dinitroaniline

Toxicological information:

Acute oral LD 50 for rats >5000 mg/kg

Biochemistry:

Microtubule assembly inhibition.

Uses:

Pre-emergence herbicide controls several annual grasses and broad-leaf weeds in beans, soya bean, sunflower, cotton, and canola. Spraying should be done before planting crops. You should mix the sprayed soil with disk Up to 4 hours after spraying. Otherwise the efficiency extremely decreases. It’s used at 2-2.5 L/ 200 L water

Product Name	Weed	Dosage	Time
Cotton	Broadleaf & grassy weeds	2 to 3 lit per hectare	Before planting، Mixed with soil، to a depth of 8 to 10 cm of soil
Sugarbeet	Broadleaf & grassy weeds	2 to 2.5 lit per hectare	mixed with4 to 5 lit of cloridazon after detract
Soybean and sunflower	Broadleaf & grassy weeds	1.5 to 2.5 lit per hectare	Before planting، Mixed with soil