With over 350,000 ha treated in 2007, AXIAL is now one of the leading spring grass weed herbicides in barley and wheat.
Fast-acting, and highly active against the UK’s most competitive grass weeds of wild oats and rye-grass – plus a range of other problem grass weeds, including black-grass in barley – it’s latest ‘den’ chemistry opens a new era of herbicide crop safety, versatility and ease-of-use.
Better still, it isn’t affected in the same way as ‘fop’ and ‘cereal safe dim’ herbicides by resistance, and it brings gains in spraying efficiency – thanks to simplicity of a single product for winter wheat and barley, suitability for 100 l/ha application, and flexibility in dose rate and timing.
Irrespective of grain prices, doing the best job possible against wild oats and rye-grass is important. AXIAL provides an easier approach.
| Reasons to use AXIAL |
| Reliable: | |
| • | Outstanding control of wild oats and rye-grass |
| • | Fast-acting |
| • | ‘Den’ chemistry offers an advanced way to target difficult weeds |
| Versatile: | |
| • | One product for wheat and barley |
| • | One product for wild oats and rye-grass |
| • | Wide window of application (with appropriate dose rates) |
| Convenient: | |
| • | No following crop restrictions or need for autumn ploughing |
| • | No issues with PSD restrictions if you’ve used an SU previously, or already used a fop or dim against a different target weed |
| • | One product for wheat and barley means fewer products to store, and less sprayer washing between approved crops |
| • | Suitability for 100 l/ha application for more hectares treated per day |
AXIAL sets new standards for control of wild oats and rye-grass
| AXIAL rye-grass field performance |

Trials demonstrate that AXIAL provides more reliable wild oat control compared to fop herbicides.

Source: Average of 25 UK direct comparisons in winter wheat, 2006 and 2007 seasons
Fop = fenoxaprop or clodinafop
AXIAL N = 0.2-0.3l/ha, AXIAL 0.5N = 0.1-0.15l/ha according to wild oat growth stage
| • | Dealing with tough weed problems |
| • | Optimum sprayer set-up – choosing the optimum boom height, water volume, nozzles and forward speed |