Spitfire^®

Name: Spitfire®
Brand: Corteva Agriscience

Herbicide

Spitfire^® helps combat a wide range of broad-leaved weeds in cereal crops, for use in both autumn and spring. Suitable for use throughout the season it protects against yield loss and prevents the build up of weed populations from GS13 right up to GS39 (GS45 in winter crops). Outstanding against cleavers, Spitfire also controls other key weeds, including volunteer beans, brassica weeds, groundsel and mayweeds.

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Benefits

Why use

Based on a unique combination of tried and trusted florasulam and fluroxypyr, Spitfire keeps on working whether it’s cool, warm or when diurnal temperatures are fluctuating. Spitfire also helps fight the threat of herbicide resistance thanks to its two proven ingredients – florasulam and fluroxypyr - with different mode of actions.

Can be used in spring sown barley and wheat from GS13-39, in winter wheat and barley from GS13-45 and in winter and spring sown oats from GS13-31

Can be used in cereals under sown with grass

Rainfast 1 hour

Following crops:
Sown in the year of treatment: Cereals, oilseed rape, field beans, vegetable brassicas as transplants, grass
Sown the calendar year following treatment: Cereals, oilseed rape, field beans, carrots, vegetable brassicas as transplants, grass, linseed, peas, sugar beet, potatoes, maize, clover (for use in grass/clover mixtures)

Use as part of a programme and follow WRAG guidelines

Dual actives help to manage weed resistance

Autumn volunteer bean control

·         Proven autumn volunteer bean control
·         0.5 L/ha + adjuvant - 4 true leaves (2 pairs)
·         0.75 L/ha + adjuvant - 6 true leaves (3 pairs)
·         Fast speed of kill
·         Works in fluctuating temperatures

Tank mixes

·         Can be mixed with CMPP or Dicamba product – broader spectrum of weed control, particularly in spring barley, spring wheat and spring oats
·         Only one other product with an ALS-inhibitor mode of action should be applied to a cereal crop treated with Spitfire
·         Spitfire can be sequenced with one other florasulam containing product provided users don’t exceed 7.5g ai/ha florasulam (3.75 g ai/ha before 1st Feb) and this will count as ONE ALS treatment
·         Compatible with most commonly used fungicides, insecticides and plant growth regulators

Crops

Barley

Barley, Spring

Barley, Winter

Oat

Oats, Spring

Oats, Winter

Rye

Rye, Winter

Triticale

Wheat

Wheat, spring

Wheat, winter

Weeds Controlled

	0.75 L/ha	1.0 L/ha
Black bindweed	4 etl	100 mm
Black nightshade	4 etl	6 etl
Charlock	6 etl	bfbv
Chickweed	Flowering	Flowering
Corn marigold	4 etl	Up to Rosette
Cleavers	200 mm	Flowering
Clover	MS	10 cm
Docks (from seed)	2 etl	4 etl
Forget-me-not	50 mm	bfbv
Groundsel	MS	50 mm
Hedge mustard	4 etl	100 mm
Hemp-nettle	4 etl	6 etl
Henbit dead-nettle	MS	2 etl
Knotgrass	MS	3 etl
Mayweeds	Rosette	Flowering
Pale persicaria	MS	4 etl
Poppy*	MS	100 mm
Redshank	MS	MS
Red dead-nettle	T	2 etl
Shepherd’s needle	4 etl	6 etl
Shepherd’s purse	4 etl	100 mm
Small nettle	-	MS
Sow thistle (annual)	MS	100 mm
Sun spurge	4 etl	6 etl
Volunteer beans	6 etl*	8 etl
Volunteer borage	4 etl	6 etl
Volunteer linseed	MS	100 mm
Volunteer OSR	6 etl	bfbv
Volunteer peas	6 etl*	8 etl
Weed beet	4 etl	6 etl
Wild radish	6 etl	100 mm
Key: bold- label weeds; bfbv - before flower buds visible, etl - established true leaves, MS - Moderately Susceptible, T-Tolerant Non-Label weeds listed as an indication of the effect that would be expected to be achieved based on limited data - these are not recommendations; just an indication of what effects might be achieved.*Requires addition of MSO adjuvant or Abacus, Arma, Bio Syl, Cogent, Kantor, Respond, Roller, Spryte Aqua, Tonto

Technical Specifications

Product Registration Number:
MAPP 15101

Active Ingredient:
100 g/litre fluroxypyr + 5 g/litre florasulam

Pack Size:
5.0 Litres

Formulation:
Suspension Emulsion

Maximum Individual Dose:
0.75 L/ha prior to 1st February; 1.0 L/ha after 1st February

Maximum Total Dose:
1.0 L/ha

Application Timing:
GS13 to GS45 (Winter Wheat and Barley); to GS39 (Spring Wheat and Barley); to GS31 (Oats, Rye, Triticale)

Water Volumes:
80-300 L/ha (N.B.80 L/ha provided adequate target coverage possible)

Spray Quality:
MEDIUM as defined by BCPC

Nozzles:
CFF, VPFF, Air inclusion and Twin Fluid Nozzles

LERAP:
B

Spitife application timing

Resources

For more information download:

Spitfire^® product label
Spitfire UK Label.
Spitfire^® safety data sheet
Spitfire Safety Data Sheet UK.
Spitfire^® Tank Mix
Spitfire Tank Mix UK.
Spitfire^® Technical Information Sheet – autumn
Spitfire Autumn Tech Sheet UK.
Spitfire® Technical Information Sheet – spring
Spitfire Spring Tech Sheet UK.
Spitfire^® EIS
Spitfire EIS UK.

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